Agreed - Rod was a helluva nice guy who was always giving back. He will be greatly missed in Texas caving circles ... and I hope we can have a moment of silence and/or fitting tribute to him at TCR, where he was scheduled to manage the sound equipment for the Terminal Siphons - as he had done many years for speleomusicians.
Jay On 10/5/11, Linda Palit <linda.k.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sad news indeed. Rod was always great, dependable and precise in whatever > he did that I saw. > Hope it was gentle for him. > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:02 PM, caverarch <cavera...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Martha very kindly called me to let me know, since she was aware we were >> old friends. I just wrote this to her after hearing from Rod's father. >> I >> have written several people in Florida (where we met as new cavers in the >> late Sixties) privately before hearing from Rod's dad. >> >> Roger Moore, Houston >> -----Original Message----- >> From: caverarch <cavera...@aol.com> >> To: mmeacham <mmeac...@austincc.edu>; marthas_ear <marthas_...@yahoo.com> >> Sent: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 2:38 pm >> Subject: Rod's father just called me >> >> Martha, >> >> I was on a list of people from Florida to contact in this sort of >> situation. I was surprised that he would be doing such a thing right now, >> but he did. It was a friend that looked after his house when Rod was away >> (and vice versa) who got worried when Rod did not retiurn calls after a >> couple of days. This person came to the house and found Rod's cars there, >> and an overflowing mail box. so they called the police. He was found in >> bed, which at least seems to indicate a peaceful death, I hope. >> >> So that's all the additional information I have for now. Thank you again >> for letting me know. >> >> Roger >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
