By Darla Shelden, Metropolis Sentinel Reporter
OKLAHOMA CITY – Final week, the general public realized through Fb that Pam Paul, a former colleague of The Metropolis Sentinel newspaper employees, had handed away.
Pam was an avid and devoted progressive. She labored for the Oklahoma County Democratic Get together as their Communications Director from 2006-2011. She managed a congressional marketing campaign for Democratic candidate Tom Guild, who unsuccessfully challenged James Lankford in 2012.
Guild made the tragic announcement on Fb, saying, “It’s with a heavy coronary heart and a pit within the backside of my abdomen that I share with you the data that my pricey good friend and stalwart progressive champion Pam Paul has died.
“Pam was giving, form, beneficiant, sensible, proficient, and dependable to a fault. Pam was a constitution member of the Brennan Society and was named as an honorary lifetime member a number of years in the past,” Guild continued. “She beloved pets and all the time had a number of cats and/or canines in her house so long as I knew her.
“She was identified with most cancers in December and succumbed to the illness this week,” Guild stated. “Solely the nice die younger. Pam actually match that mildew.”
Guild wrote that Pam moved again to Massachusetts in 2014 to dwell within the childhood house she inherited from her mom, who additionally died of most cancers. Pam was her mom’s caregiver.
Pam’s LinkedIn web page reads: “My area of interest is a various surroundings, which embraces my persona, my expertise, and my ability units. I want to be taught, thrive, and share finest practices whereas serving to to domesticate a flourishing environment, wherever I could also be.”
She actually succeeded. Pam constructed relationships with widespread sense dialogue that resulted in efficient teamwork, in response to lots of her pals.
After returning to her house state of Massachusetts, Pam labored in restaurant and catering administration. Her major focus of involvement was with the Service Canine Venture that operates from a farm in Ipswich, MA the place they breed, prepare, after which donate Nice Danes to the mobility disabled.
Pam wrote, “I do no matter is required from feedings, cleansing kennels, taking part in with puppies, brushing bigger canines, to donkey, hen and hen care. That is the very best instance you will discover of a grassroots social group, working for and with these in want. The Danes are superb, as are all these concerned with this farm.”
As could possibly be anticipated, Pam adopted three of the massive pups herself, Martha, Whit and Chester.
Pam’s internet design expertise included media and graphics. networking and consulting.
Her publications embody the ebook Mousepads, Shoeleather, and Hope, Classes from the Howard Dean Marketing campaign. Pam contributed to a chapter of this ebook, following her work within the Dean grassroots marketing campaign for the Presidential nomination in 2004. Though not profitable, she stated she discovered it to be “thrilling and liberating.”
Pam labored for The Metropolis Sentinel newspaper from 2010 – 2014 in on a regular basis operations resembling putting adverts, writing content material, sustaining the web site, and posting on social media.
“Pam was an exquisite lady,” recollects Pat McGuigan, writer of The Metropolis Sentinel. “I used to be blessed to work together with her for a number of years earlier than she moved again to Massachusetts. We had a relationship of belief and mutual respect. She was clever and useful, with an intuitive kindness.”
Oklahoma Metropolis resident Dana Orwig stated, “I keep in mind Pam’s dedication to group organizing and eager to make issues higher.”
Her shut good friend and Oklahoma Metropolis resident, Preston White said, “Pam was very giving and all the time wished others to benefit from the journey alongside together with her. Her favourite option to specific displeasure was ‘Holy cannoli.’’
“Pam was one in every of my godmothers and she or he was a vital a part of my life,” stated Preston’s daughter Amanda Ashmore. “Pam had a really vivid soul, was beneficiant, selfless, humorous and type. She would all the time lighten any state of affairs and her little dances are what I keep in mind most. She danced her method by means of life and that’s all the time one thing I’ll admire about her. She meant an incredible deal to me and to lots of different individuals. She was a shining star on the earth.”
Oklahoma Metropolis musician Peggy Johnson stated, “Pam was a form and giving lady who was all the time loyal to her many pals. I particularly keep in mind her enthusiasm for the Howard Dean marketing campaign in 2004. She additionally beloved animals and, moreover her most up-to-date endeavor together with her beloved Nice Danes, she had a chihuahua named Emma who was a treasured treasure as effectively.”
Pam served in the US Military from 1982-1984, saying it “ready me to know and embrace our cultural and financial range.”
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