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“The guys who stole that statue don’t know what it means to us. They’ve taken part of us.”
Joan Davis holds a photo of a lawn jockey stolen from in front of her Cloverdale home last Saturday night. The cement statue was a gift to Davis’ husband from their dead daughter and has great sentimental value to the couple. ❚PHOTO/Ted Colley
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010
Pranksters hit emotional nerve Lawn jockey has no value to thieves but it means the world to Cloverdale couple
A letter for you, dad “Gradually becoming aware of the presence of his family gathered around his bed, he smiled at each of us as if to say, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll be OK.’ The smile was recognizable but my father was not. Such was his strength! This was only the beginning of his display of vast inner resources for he had a difficult road ahead of him yet.”
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Ted COLLEY Staff Reporter
Last Saturday night, somebody stole a cement lawn jockey from in front of Joan and Ira Davis’ Cloverdale home. The elderly couple is willing to pay to get it back. Joan Davis is certain the theft was a prank. The ornament, stolen around 11:30 p.m., wouldn’t have any value to the thieves, but it means the world to her and her husband. “It was a gift to my husband from our daughter who died in 1993. It might have been a Fathers’ Day present, but I’m not sure about that,” she said. Laurie-Lee was just 33 years old when she died. Our daughter graduated and met a man, fell in love and began a long-term relationship with him, Davis recalled. Trouble was, that man had AIDS, but never told Laurie-Lee. She knew nothing until she got sick and doctors told her she had AIDS. Sick for seven years, Laurie-Lee died in Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital. “It was terrible. She had Stephens-Johnson Syndrome. Her body basically burned from the inside out. She went blind,” her still-grieving mother said. “The guys who stole that statue don’t know what it means to us. They’ve taken part of us.” Stephens-Johnson Syndrome is a painful, lifethreatening skin disease in which cell death causes the layers of the skin to separate. Davis said she and Ira are offering a $1,000 reward for the safe return of the lawn jockey, no questions asked. “In order to get the reward, it has to come back to us in the same condition it was when it was stolen. We don’t want broken arms, or anything.”
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