Thank you, Marzlie, for the letter and the retrospective gallery. We will all miss John's new works and enthusiasm in the paper model field.
Your fiber bowl is rather spectacular, also. Best wishes and Godspeed, Karl Stimeling USA On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM, 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/ > > -- > 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]<papermodels%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en. > -- Vees across the moon wild geese seeking adventure? My thoughts wing with them -- 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.
