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       No more Roger Nelson   
       by Ward Dossche - 2:292/854   
      
       The last couple of years a morbid reality hit, if you saw your   
       name mentioned in an article here written by me, it meant you   
       were dead.  Quite shocking.   
      
       Really, I have been writing too many obituaries and it uncovers   
       a reality about FidoNet ...  it is dying, and so are we.   
      
       On Sept. 10th 2019 Roger Nelson of 1:3828/7 NCS BBS passed away   
       from reasons undisclosed but definitely natural.   
      
       Roger was 85 years old when he died. He was born in New Orleans,   
       LA and moved to Houma LA around 1985.  He is survived by two   
       sons and a daughter.  He has 4 grandchildren.   
      
       Roger had a computer repair shop called  Nelson's Computer   
       Service.  He retired around age 65, some 20 years ago.   
      
       His main hobby was fishing until his legs limited him from   
       getting in and out of the boat.  After that he was rather   
       reclusive and spent most of his time watching classic movies and   
       tinkering with computers I was told.   
      
       Roger entered the nodelist Nov.15th 1991. But as is the case   
       with many of us, he had been active before as a user on a BBS   
       and later as a point.  At least that's what he mentioned to me.   
      
       Roger was very modest but a man of many talents. We chatted a   
       lot about JFK being murdered (he was very close to the team of   
       Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who was the only   
       one to bring someone to trial, without success), about fishing,   
       about the D'Bridge software and about anything else really.   
       Aviation ...  of course.   
      
       He was a moderator of certain echomail conferences and though he   
       was accused by some of squatting echo-tags, if it really   
       happened that way, then after some careful consideration I think   
       Roger did it with the best of intentions in mind.   
      
       He could be so very human. Unknown to many Roger entertained   
       links to some sysops who were claimed to be controversial ...   
       it was very easy to get in arguments with Bob Seaborn or Roy   
       Witt, but they were on Roger's "friends-list" and I remember he   
       was thoroughly shaken when Bob Seaborn passed away.  He had few   
       friends, but those he had were very loyal and highly trusted.   
       If you were one of them, you were blessed.   
      
       He loved a good Guinness, his favourite beer,  and there were   
       endless discussions about Irish Guinness versus the English   
       counterpart ...  it appeared it's even being brewed in the US.   
       Then   
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       I sent him a batch of Belgian 12-degree trappist ales. From that   
       moment on he figured trappist ales were the best.   
      
       Roger was a gentleman, you could agree with him or disagree, but   
       whenever we did we both agreed to disagree -- like men.   
      
       During my summer-stay this past July at Camp Fife BSA in   
       Washington-state Roger was admitted in a nursing home where   
       tests were going to be performed but he was going to go home   
       after receiving some physical therapy, or so he said.  Although   
       that may have been correct, the fact is that both Nick Andre and   
       I had been noticing a shift in behaviour by Roger and we were   
       getting really concerned ...  You know, when you've had this   
       same scenario happen with other people downplaying the   
       seriousness of the situation, you become suspicious.   
      
       After a lengthy exchange of ideas, mostly about the JFK-murder,   
       of course, this summer of 2019 I wrote him "...  one day ...   
       soon ...  shaking your hand in friendship is now on the top of   
       my bucket-list"   
       ... then came September 10th 2019 and Roger was no more.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
       FIDOGAZETTE  Vol 13 No 38    Page  2         September 18, 2019   
      
      
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