Category Archives: In Memoriam

Remembrances of loved ones gone

“Time to Say Farewell to Another Crop of Cosmic Graduates: The People We Lost in 2023”

* It’s always a bittersweet time of year, when we look back on important or influential people who have moved into eternity, since we celebrated the previous New Year. Of course there were many more luminaries we lost over the … Continue reading

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“INSERT FILTHY LIMERICK HERE: Remembering Everett Joseph Zero” (by KPKeelan)

. > I knew this time in my life was coming. After all, I managed to live over half a century in this incarnation, and that’s already a good deal more than many people get… This column is a eulogy. … Continue reading

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“Party of the Dead (The Stink of Life)” (an ongoing eulogy for those I have known, by KPKeelan)

*   *   * I was at a strange party. No idea how I got there! Everyone was dead, except me- and everyone dead was there: I saw Gregory Keryk, fit as a fiddle, sat reading in a corner. … Continue reading

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“EPITAPH: Friends Remember Kelly Sue Keelan (1960 – 1982)”

* [Compilation of Facebook memorial comments, December 2009] RONNI TAYLOR: I’ve wanted to tell you how wonderful I found Kelly to be, how she touched my life in the short time I was around her, how I loved blabbing away … Continue reading

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“IN MEMORIAM: Saying 24 Goodbyes in 2021” (by KPKeelan)

. > You get to a certain age in life, and you begin to take an interest in the obituaries. . For most of us, it does not mark a morbid preoccupation with death, but rather an awareness that one’s … Continue reading

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“Kelly Sue Keelan: A Long Time Gone (a remembrance, by KPKeelan)

KELLY SUE KEELAN  (1960-1982) > It’s hard to believe my lovely sister has been gone so much longer than she was actually with us.  Kelly died suddenly at 22, on December 17th of 1982 of a brain aneurysm.  She was … Continue reading

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“Icons and Iconoclasts We Lost in 2020” (by KPKeelan)

. > I aways hate doing this annual column… – Yet I am one who likes to keep cherished memories of the dead alive, so there is a celebration amid the grief. Grieve and celebrate with me. Rest in Peace: … Continue reading

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“Kelly’s Gift: Remembering Kelly Sue Keelan” (7-15-60 to 12-17-82) (by KPKeelan)

> Kelly was my sister. . There were just enough years between us that we didn’t always relate well as kids, but as adults we became great friends. She was born on this date (July 15th) in 1960, and died … Continue reading

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“Six Below Zero (The World is Cold Without Kelly)” (for Kelly Sue Keelan: 1960 – 1982, by KPKeelan)

. At 6 below zero the world is as cold as my pain. She’s gone.  Gone. And the world lumbers on in a torrent of tears that will not stop. I am stabbed?  Stabbed! Can this be real?  Real! Is … Continue reading

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“Running the FINAL CREDITS for 2012: Time to Say Goodbye” (by KPKeelan)

* * * (It’s always a bittersweet time of year, when we look back on important or influential people who have moved into eternity since we celebrated the previous New Year. Of course there were many more luminaries we lost … Continue reading

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