I didn't really know him, but thought some on this list probably did - From: bandit <ban...@cruzio.com>
He was a friend, fan of both SF, LOTR, and route 66, and author/editor. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: jan's status - from Lin Daniel From: "jan howard finder" <jan.fin...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 February, 2013 7:47 am To: "Bandit" <ban...@cruzio.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bandit, my voice is broken at the moment, so I have to tell you via brutal email rather than a fone call. jan died this morning at 12:54am, his systems just shutting down. I was with him, and a mutual friend was there as well. jan and I had a fabulous Sunday, talking about everything from death and dying thru to our relationship, things in some cases that we had never spoken of to each other. I know I made him happy, and that's the best gift I could give him. jan wanted to be cremated, and that will be done. I asked if he wanted me to sit shiva for him, and he said yes. I'm planning a memorial service in a couple of months. A story was told to me by the pastor at the hospital. A young friend of his flew C5s, and also flew a Cessna. He crashed the Cessna and died. He was cremated, and his C5 buddies took his ashes all the places the C5s flew. They scattered his ashes all over the world, and recorded in pics and words where and when this was done. It struck me that something similar would be a fabulous thing for jan's ashes, and an equally fabulous memorial, given that he has friends all over the world. I've gotten positive feedback on that from those I've spoken to so far. I hope you like the idea too. Lin -- ban...@cruzio.com 505-228-8197 bandit.name I am a systems engineer, specializing in: - Mission-Critical embedded systems - device drivers - control and data acquisition systems My stuff *works* - *all the time*. Member: INCOSE.org, PACA.org, IEEE.org, CaliforniaConsultants.org, quelab.net And to support my son: Proud members of the New Mexico .NET User Group. Please go to the community website at www.nmug.net.
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