Recently Terence Wright’s 12 year old Gyr- Prairie tiercel Cog starred with partner Loki the lurcher in a video here. Yesterday he was killed on a jack by a coyote before Loki and Terence could get to him. He will be missed; he was one of the best hare falcons I have ever seen, and …
Tag: RIP
George Kimball, 1943- 2011, RIP
Tom Russell emailed to say that George Kimball, our greatest boxing writer and a damn brave fighter himself, died the night before last after a seven year battle with cancer, during which time he wrote or edited five books. I most recently linked to his website and books in this post here (scroll down). Like …
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On a hot dusty day, we buried Patty Adam in Fairview Cemetery on Cerrillos road in Santa Fe, with a small crowd of friends in attendance. The cemetery, on the National Historic Register, is odd, small, old, and dry, with 19th century tombstones and a general air of benign neglect– think New Orleans with prairie …
Katharine “Patty” Lucas Adam, 1917- 2011
Libby’s mother, Patty Adam, died June 3, 2011, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was born on November 23, 1917, to American parents then living in Anking, China. (As many friends know and in one of the coincidences too weird for fiction,she was raised with Betsy’s oldest sister, Jane Huntington; they were the first two …
Elisha Tripp, 1974- 2011
Eli Tripp, one of Jackson’s two closest high school friends and a constant presence in our lives during the Bozeman years, died this week of complications of Cystic Fibrosis. He was 37 and fought himself and his disease to remarkably good health for years. CF is still a killer though. His obit in the Bozeman …