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Thanks for letting me know about Rob, he would fly up here to The Morris airport cafe in Morris, IL for coffee. I knew him well. He was a good friend. Gene for IL Georgia Trehey wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > I am sad to report that one of our former coupers list members died > recently. He was an actively contributing list member until his kid broke > his plane. > > His name was Rob Talbot-Jones. He lived in Champaign IL until Fall 2000, > at which time he moved to Soouthern CA. I had become quite good friends > with him although I had never met him in person. It turns out that he had > many, many friends, both online and off, all over the world. > > He died of a heart attack on Feb 22. He was working alone on a person's > house, and when she returned, he had collapsed on the floor. As near as > anyone can tell, he probably didn't even know what hit him. He didn't > have heart problems that anyone was aware of, so the whole thing is quite > a shock. He was 54, far too young to leave us. > > I didn't know his wife, however I do have her email address. I wrote to > her today and she sent a very nice response. I will not give out her > email address without her permission, but if any of you want to write to > her, I will be happy to ask her if she cares to give out her email address > and/or would like me to forward messages to her. > > Rob was active in the RC field as well as a pilot/owner of a fullsize > aircraft. He also was an excellent documentary film maker. He did a > documentary for PBS called "Pilots on the Ground" about RC flying. If you > ever get a chance to see it, do yourself a favor. > > Rob had an outrageous sense of humor and we thoroughly enjoyed exchanging > jokes. He also was one of the nicest people I have ever had the good > fortune to know. He had a huge, positive impact on so many people's > lives. Those of us that knew him will miss him terribly. > > Spook > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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