Sad information regarding Duchess Sieglinde Syr/Nancy Goforth

Sue Moon just posted the following on Facebook:

Duchess Sieglinde Syr/Nancy Goforth has advanced cancer and is now in Hospice.

If you are not friends with Sue on FB and need contact info, let me know.  They are asking that contacts go through her, Ulsted/John Steelquist, or Crowley/John Stubbs.  Ron is exhausted.

I have many lovely memories of Sieglinde.  Her singing was beautiful.  Her explanation of the importance of swine to the culture she reenacted, therefore the name “Syr,” actually made me look at pigs differently.  My first out-of-town event was the first Coronation of her lord husband and her as King and Queen of Ansteorra.  The scavenger hunt she sent me on to get proper spellings for all the people getting awards on 14 May AS XVIII (1983), as many were Welsh and several had recently changed, only to discover that my AoA was one of the awards that night.  She winked as she gave it to me.  This was the very first Round Table Tournament, hosted by the Shire of the Shadowlands, and it was an event suggested by Sigmund and Sieglinde, I believe.

During King’s College, also at Shadowlands (also AS XVIII, I think), several of us were in a class to learn calligraphy.  The class had already started when Sieglinde strode through the door at the back of the room. She took off her crown, set it on an empty back table, and loudly proclaimed, “The Queen wishes to know how to sign her name!”  Then she sat down and proceeded to learn with the rest of us, with no other airs or pretension.

She was a wonderful teacher, gracious Queen, and gentle lady.  She will be missed.

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