Shirley Abrahamson, longest-serving member of Wisconsin Supreme Court, dies at 87

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5. This will be

kind of a long story. I met Shirley Abrahamson when she was just starting out. She was doing her dissertation, which was a compilation of state constitutions (ambitious much?) and was looking for someone to edit and proofread it. Somehow or another, this wound up in my mother's lap. It proved to be a little more than a one-person job, so my mom enlisted a couple of her friends to help. They would meet in our living room with coffee and pencils and before the day was over there would be papers all over the room. She did pay them, however! Once the dissertation was done, Mom continued to edit other papers and legal briefs for her, but the team was disbanded. The other thing I remember is that the Abrahamsons had, at the time, two Irish setters named Betsy B. and Briscoe. Briscoe was named after Robert Briscoe, the Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

May her memory be a blessing.