Gayle Louise DeLong 1958 – 2022
Today we share the sad news that Gayle DeLong, mother, wife, college professor, autism advocate and friend, has died after battling breast cancer. Many readers will recognize Gayle from events, conferences and rallies. From her family:
Gayle Louise DeLong, 1958-2022
After fighting cancer for seven years, Gayle DeLong passed away peacefully at home and with her family on January 5, 2022. She proudly wore the badge of “Warrior Mom”. She worked tirelessly to take the burden of autism off her two daughters, Jennifer and Flora, and to serve an entire generation of vaccine-injured children. She was not a doctor, but she was an experienced statistician, and she could calculate the self-interest of pharmaceutical companies as well as the human resource requirements of their products.
A Zoom memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, January 16, starting at 3:00 p.m. EST. You can get a link from her husband Jonathan Rose at jrose@drew.edu. In lieu of flowers, we would be grateful for a contribution on behalf of Gayle to Children’s Health Defense.
Gayle always said it was a shame you couldn’t have a funeral before you died: that was how you could hear all the beautiful things people said about you in their eulogies. Her daughter Jennifer Rose (author of It’s Not a Perfect World, but I’ll Take It) decided to write such a preface for her mother, who was deeply touched when it was read to her in the hospital. We reproduce it here with affection and admiration.
Editor’s note: We will add the eulogy as soon as we have it.
