One of my first and lasting impressions of Annie was her riding swiftly on a horse during summer break on the south coast. She must have been about 12 or 13. At that time I was visiting my British uncle Bill Sands and his family during my year's time at Bradford, teaching German there. I admired her on her horse, as I would surely have fallen off. And this - her riding ahead - she kept throughout her life, whatever her situation was. My wife Henny and me will keep her in our hearts as a POWER FRAU as we would put it in German. Today we again think of Annie and of two special lines at the beginning of Psalm 103: ... Bless the Lord my soul, and forget none of his benefits. ... Reimar K.H. Thomas, one of the German 'cousins', with his wife Henny