Jul 28, 2007

Sad news. Gary did a websearch for one of his roommates at Shepherd, to see if he could find any recent information on the man – Gary had tried emailing him last fall, and never got a reply. Gary turned up an obituary during the websearch. The man died this past June, the obituary saying his death was caused by complications due to his spinal cord injury. He seemed in good health (other than the SCI, of course) when we were at Shepherd together, and his spirits had always been good. He was congenial and witty. He went around wearing a Superman T-shirt. We had met his mother and sister and one of his sons, and Gary had met his wife of 41 years. The man became a quadriplegic, I believe close to the time Gary became a paraplegic. The man's injury was caused by a drunk running a stop sign.

The news of his death made us cry.