[FARC] SK: Doug Strobel, 20, of Damascus KB3HAM

[Dan Szymanski]

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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:21 PM
Subject: [PVRC] SK: Doug Strobel, 20, of Damascus KB3HAM


> Doug KB3HAM.
> 
> Douglas Donald Strobel, 20, of Damascus and 
> Denver, Colo., died suddenly in his sleep on 
> Friday, less than a week after returning to college from winter break.
> 
> Born Nov. 18, 1988, he was the son of David 
> Strobel of Mount Airy and Cynthia D. Strobel of Damascus.
> 
> David Strobel said his son was not feeling well 
> Thursday and visited a doctor. Douglas returned 
> home, went to bed and never woke up, his father said.
> 
> Douglas Strobel was the only survivor of a set of 
> triplets born 16 weeks early. However, the oxygen 
> he needed to survive robbed him of his eyesight. 
> But he never allowed his blindness to rob him of a normal life.
> 
> At the time of his death he was a freshman at 
> Metropolitan State College of Denver majoring in 
> hotel management after spending a year at the 
> Colorado Center for the Blind independence 
> program. He learned to cook, clean, shop, handle 
> money and maneuver the public transportation 
> system by himself, his father said.
> 
> "In one year of college he was a totally independent person," he said.
> 
> He made many friends who counted on him to 
> coordinate their weekend restaurant dates and the 
> best travel routes, David Strobel said.
> 
> "Doug will be remembered most for making people 
> see beyond his disability, making them laugh and 
> seeing the humor in any situation," he said.
> 
> Strobel graduated from Damascus High School in 2007.
> 
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