"Eric, my most sincere sympathies to you, your family and to your wide circle of friends. May Julie's spirit and goodwill will be with you wherever you go, and your heart remain filled with memories of the good times together as you celebrate a life well lived. I hope the happy memories of Julie's life, with time, overcome the sadness and pain that are so, so prevalent in these initial days. My deepest wish for you is peace and comfort in the coming days. With love, Tracey "
In loving memory of
Julie Revell Benjamin
July 28, 1960 - September 7, 2017
Julie Revell Benjamin AKA Julie Brannagh
On September 7th, it started out as any other day, Julie asked me to get her a Black Tea Lemonade with no sweeter from Starbucks and some food, she usually liked the Ham and Swiss or the Cheddar Bacon sandwich. With all of the fires that Western Washington was experiencing Julie was having some trouble breathing. Once we finished breakfast she was sitting on the bed and was just taking some time to get motivated. I heard a really weird sound come from the bedroom, I went into check on her and she had stopped breathing and had no pulse. So I started CPR and called the medics. I believe that I worked on her for about 5 minutes and the medics worked on her for about 35 minutes. We were not able to revive her.
I have been very touched but the author community that has reached out and offered support as well as the extended family that has been around me to offer support.
If you never met Julie what should you know about her, she loved reading, football and arguing but she was also a fierce supporter of what she thought was right. One of the things that really bugged her was when she saw someone being treated unfairly. Perfect example would be the situation with Michael Bennet and Las Vegas Metro PD. She truly loved to write and read romance novels, she worked so very hard to get her first novel published, she loved working with Amanda and then Elle. Her agent was Sara and they worked well together, they had many discussions on how this was going and I never was part of those conversation, so I can't really comment on them.
Julie was part of a critique group that met once per week, it was called "Cupcake Crew" the members were Amy Raby and Jessi Gage. Ladies she loved working with you.
I hope Julie and Oscar are laying together in Heaven like they did on earth together.
She loved her cat and he loved his mom very much, they used to lay on the bed together and Oscar would wrap his paw around her wrist to make sure she would not move.
I will miss so many things about our life together, the biggest thing is just the conversations and the texts when I had forgot to call home.
I am working on a celebration of life for Julie, I will update this note when the details are finalized.
My Best Wishes,
Eric
Tributes
"My deepest condolences to Eric and the entire family and Eric and Julie's friends. Julie certainly was unique in many ways. She cared deeply about whatever she cared about. She cared immensely about her good friends, her politics, her animals, her Seahawks, good and fun conversations, and mostly her beloved Eric. I can't help think of Julie stating in the middle of a group conversation, "So, Eric, what do you think?", as she brought quiet Eric into the conversation. I adopted the expression, whether it is for Eric or within a completely different group of people and a person is being quiet. Julie, I will miss you, your joy and your willingness to listen to others' viewpoints even if yours would never be changed. May you rest in peace! Love, Doug"