[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Passing of Dave Mewhinney

[Richard Allman]

any contact infor for family-address? email? to send condolences? Thanks! 
RICH
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From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 6:13 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: Passing of Dave Mewhinney


>> "Andy Brusgard" wrote:
>>
>> Members and friends of NYSME
>>
>> It is with deep sorrow and regret that I received word today that New
>> York Society of Model Engineers member Dave Mewhinney has lost his
>> battle with cancer. He passed on peacefully at home in Illinois early
>> this morning surrounded by his family.
>>
>> During the years that Dave lived in the New York area he was very
>> active in the Society. Many of us smiled, even laugh, at his unusual
>> selection of equipment. One rather long yellow and brown passenger
>> train comes to my mind.
>>
>> Of course, I knew how ill he was, we e-mail back and forth a few
>> times over the last months, but still, I hoped that I would get to
>> see Dave again. A few of us from the New York Society are going to
>> Chicago in March for the "O" Scale Train Meet and had hoped that he
>> would be well enough to attend.
>>
>> In recent years Dave has become famous for his Dave's Electric
>> Railroads web site. Most likely the largest collection of electric
>> traction photos on the web
>> See:
>> http://www.davesrailpix.com/
>>
>> Please know that all the members of the New York Society of Model
>> Engineers offer their deepest condolence to Dave's family in their
>> time of sorrow.
>>
>> Andy Brusgard
>> New York Society of Model Engineers
>> www.ModelEngineers.org
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