Were these the very colorful cat prints, often in rainbow colors,
or strong purples and reds, etc?

Wow - 60 doesn't seem so old to me anymore... I'll be there 7 years
from now. Seven years ago I had already been a part of this newsgroup
for a year. Yikes!

She must have had a very severe case of osteoporosis to die of it
that young.

Joyce

This really is sad.  As you indicated, she had such bright, cheerful
fabrics.  They really were unique.  I was puzzled, though, about the
reference to osteoporosis, so I looked at her web site.  According to that
page, she died from complications of osteopetrosis, which looks similar on
paper but is actually a rare disorder.  Wikipedia says osteopetrosis is an
inherited disorder (also known as marble bone disease or Albers-Schonberg
disease).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopetrosis

MaryL

So sorry to hear this.  Much too young.

Oh no!!!!! This is very very sad :(   I"m really sorry to hear this :(

Wow, that is sad and she wasn't very old either.  It's odd, too,
because after not seeing her stuff for years, I just recently started
seeing it everywhere again.  I was just back visiting my mom in the
midwest and we remarked on it because she has some Laurel Burch
earrings I gave her years ago and had just seen some t-shirts in a
catalog and then we were shopping in a touristy beach town and saw
Laurel Burch purses and scarves there.  I wonder why there was such a
recent resurgence?  How unfortunate she will not experience it.

Candace

Oh what a loss.  I read this about her:

In Ms. Burch's last years her bone disease worsened. She learned to
paint left-handed after breaking her right arm in 2005. Still, she
told The Independent Journal that if she had to choose between good
health and her artistic gifts, she would choose her art - "in a
second, in a heartbeat."

In her last artworks she sometimes included words. One quoted an
American Indian proverb: "The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes
had no tears."

I love that quote.

PatM