Travels With Oso con Migo

I made a list of people within the First Degree of Separation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation from me who have died over the years since I became aware. Not counting early on ancestors such as parents and grandparents, and not counting others whom I have yet to remember at this writing, sixteen people have died out of my first circle, from Steven Sloper, at about 13—a Boy Scout in my group from the early 1960s—to Susan Rice, my sister of ten years younger than me, and David Kirwan first son of my mother's kid-sister; my cousin. 1962  - 1992 - ? - 2002 - 2007 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015   1         1         1     1          1         2         1         1          1          5         3 (so far?)   Who am I missing? 1962 - Steven Sloper, at about 13 in Billerica MA—a Boy Scout in my group from the early 1960s. 1992 - Rosemary Howard Turner, West Ossippe NH, author of Mascots of Mount Washington ???? - Eileen Loring, Massachusetts, friend, co-leader on 50-Miler. 2002 - Casey Hodgdon, Gorham NH, friend, OO, OH 2007 - Manjula Cook, Franklin MA, formerly of Erode Tamil Nadu India, wife of my good friend Dick Cook. 2009 - Dave Goodwin, Salem NH, friend, hiker, traveller with me, ham radio operator N1CMD 2009 - Matt Houseal, TeXas, friend, OAE, military, ER Doctor, killed in action. 2010 - Roger Brown, Zephyrhills FL, cousin, friend, ham radio operator KA1IIP 2011 - Bobby Loring, Colorado, friend, co-leader on 1970 50-Miler. 2013 - Ted Everett, Concord NH, friend, ham radio operator W1ALE 2014 - Mack Beal, Jackson NH, friend, mentor, ham radio operator, W1PNR 2014 - Gordon L (not to be confused with my brother Gordon S) Datil NM, friend, employer, survivalist. We built solar arrays together. 2014 - Richard P. Cook, Franklin MA, good friend, mentor, benefactor of Manjula's Children Charity. 2014 - Theodore Brooks Oxton, Lowell MA, brother. 2014 - Glen Alan Oxton, Lowell MA, brother. 2015 - Susan Kathleen Rice (nee Oxton), Nashua NH, sister. 2015 - David Kirwan, first son of my mother's kid-sister; my cousin. 2015 - Robert Loring, friend, co-leader on 1970 50-mile hike.

Love, ajo

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
—Sir Isaac Newton

Back to Oso
Back to ajo
Copyright © 2015, A.J.Oxton, The Cat Drag'd Inn , Tonopah AridZona 85354-0313.