I can't begin to tell you how sad this news made my wife and I. We've been out of town this past week and I received a message Monday morning and our collective hearts broke. Penny and my wife shared many similarities in their backgrounds and over the numerous Grand Openings, Bass Madness events, Spring Classics and a number of shared sponsor relationships we got to know her and share many memories and fun together. My wife was never much interested in the whole outdoors/tourney scene, but Penny did wonders in creating an interest in her, just by being Penny. When we'd meet up here in town or elsewhere, Penny and my wife would go on about so many womanly things that I'll never grasp and just as fast and without skipping a beat turn back to me and start dissecting a piece of water we both were interested in or chat on about outdoor trade things. Her ability to bring women like my wife together with our sport was unique and simply unable to duplicate. Just moments ago my wife showed my son her picture, while holding him as a toddler at one of our events, spending great care and detail emphasizing her beauty in every aspect of her life that we were so blessed to share a small part of. Class, beauty, elegance,...so many similar adjectives come to mind, yet none of them seem adequate or worthy enough to describe this lady so many of us called friend. We will miss her, but we will rejoice that she is free from Earthly pain and celebrate the love she created and left for us all. God Bless you Penny and God give you strength Dick, for his need for this Angel has been filled.