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Blythe passed away June 8, 2014. She was survived by her husband Eric Pearson, Daughter Shannon Alexander & Husband Dave Hinkelman, Grandson Chase Alexander, Sister Lauren Connor (73) & Husband Tim (71), Brother Bill Ricker (76) & Wife Mayumi Honda
Blythe was my big sister and I miss her very much. She was a wonderful daughter, sibling, wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She never met a stranger and was always there to lend a hand or a listening ear.
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Rose Randolph
Blythe was a wonderful person. I believe she was in my homeroom from junior and senior high school. I even remember having her mother as one of my instructors. Blythe will be missed, but I know she's probably in heaven looking down on family and friends, keeping watch over everyone.
Adriana Sanchez (Bellet)
Blythe and I were in homeroom from Meadowlawn to Northeast., I remember her as a very nice, sweet and quiet girl.Thoughts to her family. Adriana Sanchez
Phil Igney
I remember Blythe well from our school days, but do not remember which class, or classes, we might have shared. She was indeed exactly as her sister recounts her to be.
It was because of Blythe I registered for a psychology course taught by her mother, Mrs. Faye Ricker. I enjoyed the seating arrangement which involved concentric circles, not the usual boxed-square. I'm not sure if this was a circle-of-life thing, or if we were mirroring group therapy sessions. I certainly came into that course with issues relating to my father's death when I was eight-years of age, and dealing with questions as to whether wrestling was real or staged, and weighing fashion options such as wing-tips or loafers. The course was therapeutic for me. It allowed me to be fully engaged when the movie, The Graduate, came out later the year we graduated.
In the movie it seems Ben Braddock was searching for a purpose in life, although it was a very low-key quest masquerading as ennui, when, out of the blue, while floating in a supine position on a raft in his parent's swimming pool, he is given the word, "plastics". Upon further reflection, I thought that might be just the meaning for his life, and not necessarily axiomatic. For instance, for me, it might be, naugahyde.
I always liked Blythe's given name. It reminded me of Noel Coward's play, Blithe Spirit, with a slightly different spelling. The title of the play comes from a poem by Percy Shelley (certainly famous in his own right, but also remembered for his second wife, Mary Shelley, who co-wrote, Frankenstein), entitled, To a Skylark. It begins, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, that from heaven, or near it, pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
However, it is another poem by Shelley, his, Music, When Soft Voices Die, which seems to fit most appropriately as a tribute for Blythe. "Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, are heap'd for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on."
And here's to you Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Faye Ricker, and Mrs. Blythe Ricker Pearson, Jesus loves you more than you will know wo wo wo. God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Faye Ricker, and Mrs Blythe Ricker Pearson, heaven holds a place for, you.
Requiescat in pace.
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a - MIRACLE.
Blythe, your spirit will endure.