In Memory

Jimmy Bishop



 
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03/20/23 06:31 PM #1    

Mike Canes

Jim died of cancer a few weeks ago.  Unfortunately he was in a lot of pain towards the end, and ultimately was placed into hospice for the last several days.  We were good friends and I will miss him.  


03/21/23 05:45 AM #2    

James Glynn

Jimmy was bigger than life, and it's hard to believe that he has passed.  We shared a birthday, Sept. 10, 1941.  Every year, on that date, we'd correspond.  But we also exchanged emails on other occasions.  The most recent was when I thought that his home might be threatened by wildfire that reached the outskirts of Nevada City.  He wrote back and said that he was pretty well insulated, but he was watching the fire carefully.

At Cubberley, we were lab partners in Don Granholm's chemistry class, and I believe that we set the school record for breaking glass.  None of it was deliberate, just two very clumsey guys.

I'll miss our annual birthday greetings.   My heartfelt sympathy to his family.

 

 

 


03/21/23 10:41 AM #3    

Ralph Hiesey

SO sorry to hear of his passing.  Such a great guy that I understimated for so long   I'm pretty sure we  in the same kindergarten class at Mayfield-- and in several of the same classes at Cubberley-- but we hardly ever said a word to each other-- he was ione of the jocks at Cubberley (or so I assumed)- and I was one the "other"  anti football academic types.   Then 50 years later he wrote me  a cranky letter telling me I should come to one of the reunions--I said "well OK" and then  he and Nancy came and visited me at my house in Boulder Creek-and had a GREAT time together.  He brought me a ton of Dos Equis. 

Jane and I went to the reunion where hardly any of my old "groupies" showed up, but lots of Jimmy's friends--so for the first time got to really talk with that "other" Cubberley crowd.  What a great discovery.  Hey, we weren't all that different!   So I owe that wonderful discovery to Jimmy--and all the conversation I had with people I rarely ever spoke to in high school.    Later Jane and I visited Nancy and him once in his Tahoe place, and later in his Nevada City home.    But so lucky I got to know him, and some of his friends before I found myself dead--and because of HIS effort, not mine. 


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