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Sep 29 2008

Gene Saunders, RIP

Posted by: geoff in Friends, Gene

I just learned that my old friend, Sun colleague, and fellow SecularLiberalGeek Gene Saunders died last week. (I just got off the phone from speaking with his friend Judy.)

Gene Saunders

Gene Saunders

I’m going to miss his constant emails on politics, technology, godlessness, and Texas.

More anon.

UPDATE: Links to Gene’s blog and his photos, courtesy Alec.

UPDATE: I’ve created a mailing list for friends of Gene to exchange news and thoughts. You can sign up here.

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3 Responses to “Gene Saunders, RIP”
  1. dropsafe : Gene Saunders, RIP says: September 29th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    [...] hadn’t heard from Gene in a while, then some folks (ie: Geoff) on a mailing list we’re both on started asking questions, and then this arrived as a result [...]

  2. Roger says: September 29th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Geoff, please keep me up to date on info you received and please give Judy my info. My work phone number 972-386-8495.

  3. that’s whacked » RIP Gene says: September 29th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    [...] Geoff posted, Gene Saunders just passed away recently. I never met him in person, but only knew him from our [...]

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