Taru Spiegel

I have known Taru at least 50 years and I just loved her great sense of humor and knowledge of all things Finnish ad Scandinavian. We didn't spend a lot of time together, but did go to lunch often and enjoyed each others company. We met at a Finlandis Foundation meeting and hit it off right away. Our girls were dancing in the children's dance group and we were both singing in the choir. I had just come home from Finland this sept 9th and on the 10th I called her and again a day later and when there was no answer, I decided to GOogle her in case she had changed tel. numbers, but instead I found the obituary, which made me very sad indeed. She was my only good Finnish friend in this country, who also could speak Swedish and we had a lot of fun with the Finglish and Swenglish. She was a good friend and I miss her.