[TheForge] Update on John Husvar/Johan Wagenfahrer

[Paul N]

I don't even know the man and this made me weepy. You have my deepest 
sympathy.

On 12/22/2010 2:38 PM, John Husvar wrote:
> It is with great sadness that I pass along word that it appears my father,
> and friend, John Husvar, will pass out of this world in the very near
> future.  We received a call from the hospital this morning indicating that
> his kidneys had started to fail, and my mother received and urgent call
> about 1pm to get up to the hospital post haste.  She and Kim George are now
> sitting with my father, and he will be with his wife of over 42 years and
> his best friend of almost 30 years when he moves on.
>
> I will send out an email from this account should anything change, otherwise
> there will be one more email to announce John's memorial service.  His
> wishes were to be cremated, and his ashes spread on his sister's farm in TX,
> as well a small portion being launched on the Viking Ship at Pennsic War.
> We will honor his wishes as best we can.  John and his family have never
> believed in "laying in" and likely his memorial will be a wake for friends
> and family to remember him fondly.
>
> In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to either The Society for
> Creative Anachronism (Preferably to your local branch,) (http://www.sca.org)
> or to the National MS Society (http://www.nationalmssociety.org).  John
> loved the SCA and was helped many times by NMSS.  In lieu of tears of
> sadness, raise a toast in his honor and remember that he will no longer be
> in the pain that has plagued him for so long.
>
> I will close with one of John's favorite poems...  It's by Dylan Thomas
> (Whoever he is... ;)
>
>
> DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
>
>>> Do not go gentle into that good night,
>>> Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
>>> Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
>>>
>>> Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
>>> Because their words had forked no lightning they
>>> Do not go gentle into that good night.
>>>
>>> Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
>>> Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
>>> Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
>>>
>>> Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
>>> And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
>>> Do not go gentle into that good night.
>>>
>>> Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
>>> Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
>>> Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
>>>
>>> And you, my father, there on the sad height,
>>> Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
>>> Do not go gentle into that good night.
>>> Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
>
> Jerod Husvar
> For the entire Husvar family.
>
>
>
>
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