Dear Eric and Silvia, Thank you for the letter informing me of the death of your mother Marta Bungewhich makes me very sad. Though we have had few opportunities to meet 'in person', we had a 40 yearsvery close link together, powered by a number of similarities of our lives. In I984, Marta accepted to become one of the first Editors of the "Cahiers de Topologie et G??om??trie Diff??rentielle Cat??goriques", where she did an excellent job up to the end.Our last exchange of letters was nearly a month ago about the acceptance of a paper submitted to her for the Cahiers. Though already ill, she chose to review it herself very quickly, making a well thought out detailed report. I'll remember of Marta as an important mathematician and a dear friend. With my best warm thoughts Andr??e [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]