On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Marzlie Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > just a note to let you know that John Freeman passed away on December 11, > 2010. He didn't get the year that the doctors told him him would maybe have. > The light in my life has dimmed considerably. > I know in his last post to you in October 2010 he told you about the disease > he had and that he was hoping to complete some of the models he had started. > This disease took the "wind out of his sails" and he never touched modeling > again since he wrote that he hoped to do so. just answering emails was a > real task for him. > So this week I crumpled up a couple of unfinished boats and a building as > well. I felt so badly about that, but I could not spot the pieces of paper > that would finish the projects. > He developed atrial fibrillation at the last and it was more than his poor > heart could take. > He will be missed in the kiting world and the paper modeling world. He used > to say he would need to live to 300 to finish all of the models he had > downloaded and printed out ready to go. We don't get those kinds of choices, > sad to say, it would have been wonderful if he could have lived to 90 or so. > Marzlie Freeman > Check out what Marzlie and John accomplished together in their mutual hobby > when John was alive. John's completed models are shown here too. > http://2oldkiters.smugmug.com/
Marzlie, Thank you for that; John is, and will continue to be, greatly missed by many of us here. -- Mike Hungerford http://www.chthulhu.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
