I was somewhat shocked today to learn that one of my favorite Shroud researchers, Sue Benford of Columbus, OH, crossed over into eternity on 4/6/09.  She was only fifty-one years old.  I had met her last August on the OSU campus at the wonderful conference that she and her husband had organized.  She greatly impressed me with her kindness, intelligence, courage, humility, and faith.  She was brave enough to go against the establishment and present a new theory that has successfully challenged the carbon 14 dating of 1988.
 
If you have time, click on the www.shroud.com website, then click on the "sad news".  The memorial paragraphs by Russ Brealt  give only a glimpse of what a wonderful lady Sue was.  Although it is sad to lose her, I am sure she will be waiting for us on the other side of this life.  Her research on the Shroud was remarkable.