Sadly at the age of 83 and before John could find her, he found her obituary notice in theChicago Tribunein 2009. She had slipped on some ice the previous winter, suffered a head injury and never fully recovered. For anyone interested in this amazing woman’s work, there’s a book...
And the last time we saw Jack Smith at one of the Old Fart Society luncheons, he was remembering a story that Roy had written about a little boy who had gotten his head stuck in a toilet seat. Jack remembered that particular story because he thought it was brilliantly done. So there wa...
but I found his obituary online and was immediately swept back in time to my childhood in asmall Ohio town, where most of us were classmates and childhood friends from first grade through graduation