[Aztlan] Fwd: H.B. Nicholson

[Sam Edgerton]

Dear listeros: The following sad message speaks for itself. We'll all miss 
Nick.
Sam Edgerton

>Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:39:32 -0800
>From: HENRY B NICHOLSON <hbnicholson at verizon.net>
>Subject: H.B. Nicholson
>To: Xavier Noguez <xnoguez at cmq.edu.mx>, Wayne Ruwet 
><w.ruwet at worldnet.att.net>,
>  "Teeter, Wendy" <wteeter at arts.ucla.edu>,
>  Sam Edgerton <Samuel.Y.Edgerton at williams.edu>,
>  samuel smith <sameadsmith75 at msn.com>,
>  Sam Edgerton <Samuel.Y.Edgerton at williams.edu>,
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>I am sending you this message from my father's computer. I sent you this 
>message yesterday evening, but then I realized that many of your computers 
>wouldn't recognize my e-mail address, and perhaps your e-mail system sent 
>this message to your junk e-mail folder. Also, I have now attached a 
>memorial to my father to this e-mail. I can be reached at bruceskye at yahoo.com
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>Dear Friends and Colleagues of H.B. Nicholson,
>
>My father, your dear friend, passed away on Friday. He died of a heart
>attack while lying peacefully on his bed. Kele and I make all of my
>father's meals, and I went up to his room at 1:00 Friday afternoon to
>see if he wanted mayonnaise or Italian dressing on his tomato and
>avocado salad, and I found him lying on his bed not breathing. I
>immediately called 911, and the woman who answered the call instructed
>me to give my father CPR. The paramedics came in less than five minutes,
>and when they arrived they told me that there was nothing they could do
>for him. They told me that he had postmortem lividity, and that most
>likely he had been dead for at least an hour or two. There were some
>books, as usual, around his feet, and I suspect that he was trying to
>move his books around as he always did against my warnings, and that he
>grew exhausted, and that his heart couldn't handle it this time.
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>As you know, my father was an extraordinary man. I am in the process of
>writing a full memorial for my father, but I thought it best to contact
>everyone as soon as possible. We just made the funeral arrangements, and
>the funeral is set for this coming Saturday, March 10, at Green Hills
>Memorial Park in San Pedro, California, at 2:00 p.m. My father is being
>interred with my mother. Here is a link to the Green Hills' website:
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>http://www.greenhillsmemorial.com
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>There is a map link on the Green Hills home page. As per my father's
>wishes, we are having a graveside memorial.
>
>I, along with Kele, Patrick, Alice, and Eric, Fausta, and Caterina, are
>still in a state of shock. My father's incredible lucidity betrayed his
>precarious health, and I truly expected him to live for at least another
>five years. There are so many things to take care of right now, and I'm
>not answering phone calls. If you wish to contact me or Eric, please do
>so through e-mail. Eric's e-mail address is eanichol at syr.fi.it
>
>The last words I spoke to my father before they took him to the mortuary
>were--"May the blessings of Quetzalcoatl be upon you, now and always." I
>know my father wishes you the same.
>
>In deepest sorrow,
>
>Bruce Nicholson
>
>p.s.--the e-mail addresses that I'm using to send this message were the
>only ones that my father had on his computer. Please contact anyone you
>can who would want to hear the news. Thank you.
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