I am Elizabeth’s Tío. She had two other uncles, but I have that unique distinction. My sister Ruth calls me Isumaeru Sensei, because I was one of Elizabeth’s home school instructors, as Elizabeth was brought up and educated by a village of elders. Now, we have left a collection of memories and momentos of a life ended suddenly.
We’ll gather on 27 February 2021 to collectively pay tribute to a life cut in its prime. No one contemplates, proposes, or anticipates a death at age 31. I’ve had the difficult task to try to recover her electronic breadcrumbs, but she maintained a private life. No one knew or found her credit cards or iPhone password. Apple will allow access to her photos stored online, but only after a multiple week wait, now somewhere in early March 2021.
Her solitude maintained until after her memorial. Apple needed three points of identity to reset her password, but we could only come up with one. We has her Apple ID (an email), but Apple needed the credit card with three digit card verification code on the back, and the registered phone number. Elizabeth used a card that Franc no longer had and changed her phone number without notifying Apple. She did not write down or record in any fashion the password to Apple iCloud, and stored all her original resolution photos and videos to the iCloud.
It be be a renaissance again, when we can see those images, as we could only see low resolution proxy images on her current iPhone. I will catalog and distribute those images to family members, so we can get a glimpse of her camera eye. I had a large archive of photos taken around me from 2006-2015, but she took over after she got married. My admonition to all is tell someone your password and keep up to date the two factor authentications, so in an emergency you and your loved ones can get access to these essential digital platforms.