[PRCo] Re: Passing of Donald Duke

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> What a hell of a week.

I'll second that.

> First I get a phone call telling me that Ralph Ciccone, the secretary of the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum work up last weekend and found his wife dead next to him of a heart attack.   That damn near killed us.   When my own wife had a stroke four years ago, Barb drove all the way from Pittsburgh to Lancaster just to visit her in a nursing home.   That created a real bond.   Caused my wife to go and work at the museum at Arden just to be with Barb.
>
> And my old buddy Don.   Last summer I made a grand sweep of the USA.   Oh sure I wanted to see the the new Canada line in Vancouver and the new Seattle lines and the Gold in Los Angeles but the real reason was to see told friends that I met in Philadelphia in 1965 when I was a college kid.   The two?   William D. Middleton and Donald Norman Duke.   Both were suffering from cancer and we thought that would get them.   Little did I know that Don would die first of a heart attack.

Sorry to hear about Don. Never met him but I've seen his work.