Lovelace, Eloise

Eloise Lovelace, with her love of nature and wildlife, spent much of her life in the outdoors, camping, backpacking, hiking, fishing and skiing. She devoted many years as a special education teacher, never realizing that she herself would one day trade in those walking shoes for a wheelchair and a tracheotomy tube. In the fall of 2010, she was diagnosed with the devastating disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's Disease, and moved to the redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains. With her loving and supportive husband, two daughters, four grandchildren and numerous other fami...