[msb-alumni] Re: [Bulk] Re: Randy Formenti Dies at 62
- From: Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:57:26 -0500
Yes, I talked to Charlotte the night I found out.
I think I got her kind of upset though. She has over sixty birds, and all
the dander and feathers and dust has caused her to have greatly diminished
lung function. She says she is down to 25 percent lung capacity.
So, she has started killing the baby birds that hatch. I told her that was
infanticide. I said if the asthma really bothered her and since she's
moving to a newer house, she should just get rid of all the birds.
I think the thing that bothered her most about Randy is whether he was
saved. I guess from her perspective, since Randy was an atheist as far as I
knew, that would be very worrisome.
Steve
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From: joanne
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:58 PM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: [Bulk] Re: Randy Formenti Dies at 62
Boy I can identify with the part where you said you just saw him on email
and it just seems even more eerie because one day he's writing to the Bard
group and the next I hear this. I briefly met him when he was with
Charlotte, which brings me to the question is anyone in touch with her and
has she been told? They definitely had a weird relationship I'll tell ya.
But yeah it's just so sad, and it was the same with Jim Prather--sending
emails and seemingly doing okay one day, and the next he's gone just like
that.
From: Marcie Brink-Chaney
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:16 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: [Bulk] Re: Randy Formenti Dies at 62
Maybe I'm getting so immune to all of these losses that I didn't cry this
time. However, I still can't believe that Randy is gone! Terry said that
Randy wasn't one of his favorites. But I think Randy was the kind of person
that you had to really get to know to understand that he was a good person.
I counted him as a friend of mine. He was just on the Window Eyes list
commenting or asking about something a couple of days ago and I don't think
I erased the message like I usually do because I wanted to hear what he had
to say and when I heard about his dying, I couldn't find it. I really can't
figure out how to search in thunderbird. Anyway, I really enjoyed him in
band and somewhere I have a tape that he made I think with bob Hill and
others. THERE WAS A PART WHERE SOMEONE CAME IN TO BAND AND SAID, "Mr. Chard
your nuts are on your desk," and Mike Hall and a bunch of guys in the back
row of the band cracked up laughing. I think it was Randy who taped it. He
played I Wish I Were An Oscar Myer Wiener on his cornet and a lot of other
things were on that tape (just crazy stuff). This whole thing makes me
appreciate even more how perishable we are and that I'm so grateful I'm
still here! I never met Inj. But if you are still on the list, I extend my
deepest sympathy to you. I know how it is to lose a partner and it is awful!
On 1/22/2015 3:56 PM, Steve wrote:
Yeah, I am still getting over it, even though its been several years since
we've talked. I probably should let LMF know as well, since he is back in
East Lansing now.
I remember in the late 70's, Larry Allman and Randy challenged each other
on our local repeater net to a pancake eating contest at Uncle John's
Pancake House near Frandor. That was one of the bigger turn-outs of the ham
radio guys that used to gather there after the net. Larry and Randy
mutually agreed to stopo after each had eaten 19.5 pancakes.
I did let Larry Allman know yesterday. Back in the mid-60s, we had a
study group every week--John Sheldon WA8MVH/sk, Larry ex-WA8QCW now N8WR,
myself, Randy and it was all led by Hal Bell WA8LAY/sk. I'll tell you,
John, too many damn SK's around here now.
For those of you who aren't ham radio ops, SK means Silent Key; i.e.
denoting when a ham dies that they can no longer send code.
Steve, K8SP
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From: John J Jacques
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 8:36 PM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Randy Formenti Dies at 62
Steve, thanks for the message about Randy, this is deffinatly a shock.
He was one of the first Hams I met when I came to the school, along with
you and Paul Hunt!
R I P, N8KL
John Jacques
Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC
"Whare Cat Is, Is civilization!"
Robert A Heinlein
http://www.johnjacques.weebly.com
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