My friend Ned Brooks is gone
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:38 pm
My long-time and fellow Southern SF fan Ned Brooks is gone.
Cuyler Warnell Brooks (known to friends as Ned) apparently sustained fatal injuries today when he fell from the roof of his house in Marietta GA while doing maintenance.
I have (sort of) known Ned longer than anyone else i'm still in contact with - in 1968 when i was in C school at the Norfolk Shipyard and Ned was working for NASA as an engineer on their wind tunnel (i can't recall where in Virginia it is right off - annoying), Ned saw my name in a fanzine listing my address at the Shipyard and called; we talked for a while. We met face-to-face for the first time in 1970 at that year's DeepSouthCon (in Atlanta), and i was looking forward to seeing Ned at this year's (first weekend in October).
I just got an e-mail telling me of his death; there are no details yet, it happened this morning and word is traveling through Southern Fandom.
When my SF fan friend Dennis Dolbear died two years ago, and when our friend Don Markstein in 2012, or my friend Hank Reinhardt in 2007, it was a wrench, but they'd all been in hospital with serious problems for some time before it happened, so there was sort of a foreknowledge or preparation.
So long, Ned - gonna miss you.
In this case - i just read his last 'zine for the amateur press alliance SFPA (of which we're both long-time members) yesterday ... and now he's gone.
Cuyler Warnell Brooks (known to friends as Ned) apparently sustained fatal injuries today when he fell from the roof of his house in Marietta GA while doing maintenance.
I have (sort of) known Ned longer than anyone else i'm still in contact with - in 1968 when i was in C school at the Norfolk Shipyard and Ned was working for NASA as an engineer on their wind tunnel (i can't recall where in Virginia it is right off - annoying), Ned saw my name in a fanzine listing my address at the Shipyard and called; we talked for a while. We met face-to-face for the first time in 1970 at that year's DeepSouthCon (in Atlanta), and i was looking forward to seeing Ned at this year's (first weekend in October).
I just got an e-mail telling me of his death; there are no details yet, it happened this morning and word is traveling through Southern Fandom.
When my SF fan friend Dennis Dolbear died two years ago, and when our friend Don Markstein in 2012, or my friend Hank Reinhardt in 2007, it was a wrench, but they'd all been in hospital with serious problems for some time before it happened, so there was sort of a foreknowledge or preparation.
So long, Ned - gonna miss you.
In this case - i just read his last 'zine for the amateur press alliance SFPA (of which we're both long-time members) yesterday ... and now he's gone.