[K3PZN-List] FW: Doug Strobel, KB3HAM - SK

[Curt Milton]

Wow - I couldn't believe what I am reading - I am also deeply saddened by the loss of an enthusiastic young person to the world, one whom we have operated with at field day.  I'll be alert to further news on this. 
 
Curt


--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Philip Karras <ke3fl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Philip Karras <ke3fl at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] FW: Doug Strobel, KB3HAM - SK
> To: "K3PZN Reflector LIST" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 11:37 AM
> I just received this very sad news. I'm not sure how
> many of you knew Doug but I first met him on one of the
> Frederick repeaters just after he became a ham I think he
> was about 15 at the time.
> 
> Here's the news from Steve/KQ3B:
> 
> I am sad to report to you that Doug, KB3HAM has died. 
> Early information
> indicates that he died in his sleep sometime on the 15th of
> January.
> 
> As you know Doug and I were close friends. We stayed in
> touch by phone on
> a daily basis--sometimes as many as 3 to 6 calls, short
> conversations
> mostly, as he went through his day.  Doug was enrolled at
> Metro College of
> Denver and was looking forward to starting his second
> semester there, all
> except math that is.  He was living on his own in a high
> rise in downtown
> Denver.  He attended a National Federation of the Blind
> program there a
> year before and decided he liked the area so much he would
> return for
> school.
> 
> I last called Doug about 4:10 pm on Thursday the 15th.  He
> had not been
> feeling well for a few days and had gone to the clinic to
> see a doctor
> earlier that day.  It seemed to me that he had a bad cold
> and a sore
> throat.  He had complained of dizziness earlier in the day.
>  When I spoke
> to him he sounded sick, and older than usual.  We cut the
> conversation
> short and I wished him to feel better.  He did not call
> again.  When he
> did not call by early afternoon on the 16th I was starting
> to worry.  He
> would always call in the beginning of the day and tell me
> his plans, and
> ask mine.  I called throughout the day on the 16th and got
> no answer.  His
> mom tried as well.  Later on the 16 she became worried
> enough to call the
> apartment management and send someone up to his room where
> he was
> discovered lifeless in bed.  The coronor was called and an
> autopsy will be
> preformed.
> 
> Roy, Doug has a lot of friends and acquaintances on ham
> radio--I need not
> tell you this.  Particularly Jerry, AA8TF who, if he does
> not know should
> be informed ASAP.  Please, if you would pass this
> information on by
> reflector and other means.  I will pass on other
> information as I receive
> it.
> 
> Doug is my best friend.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> KQ3B
> --------
> ke3fl/Phil
> 
> 
> 
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