David Barnert Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 A discussion has been going on here: Where is Waldo (Leo) ?, where not all may have seen it because of its location in the "Videos & Music" subforum and its playful title, but after weeks of speculation and concern for a member who has gone silent, in the last 24 hours we have come up with a last name and, finally, an obituary for our fellow concertina.net member, Leo. He apparently checked in on concertina.net the day he died unexpectedly at home on May 2. Thanks to Jim Lucas who provided his last name, and to Daniel Hersh for using that information to find his obituary. We will miss him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael sam wild Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Thanks for the information. A sad day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Stout Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Could you post a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Franch Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) David, thank you for your good work on this, despite the sad result of your investigations. It was heartening to see the concern expressed by members of this world-wide community. Echoing Larry, if you could post a link or even give us a last name so we could look, it would be greatly appreciated. With the information, we could not only satisfy curiosity, but perhaps gave the information to let his family, if any, know that his life touched ours. I see that this information is given elsewhere in the Leo discussion. It gives one something to go by to contact family. Edited June 30, 2012 by Mike Franch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Could you post a link? In the other thread, his brief obituary from this web page is quoted in this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 All the information is in the thread I linked to, above, including the funeral home web site where one may post condolences. I was thinking of doing that but haven't decided what to say yet. Lest anybody doubt that the Leo we knew here is the same person referred to in the obituary, note that both Leo's member page (also linked in my earlier post) and the obituary refer to a birthday of July 11, 1951. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kautilya Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 All the information is in the thread I linked to, above, including the funeral home web site where one may post condolences. I was thinking of doing that but haven't decided what to say yet. Lest anybody doubt that the Leo we knew here is the same person referred to in the obituary, note that both Leo's member page (also linked in my earlier post) and the obituary refer to a birthday of July 11, 1951. Yes v sad. I was hanging back in this discussion as I had an email address for Leo(as Leo Dalton) and had mailed him but got no answer but I did not want to jump the gun. In the meantime I had asked the funeral home to check with his sisters if indeed he was our concertina Leo and had been waiting for a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene S. Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) Dirge has posted his own condolences on the funeral home site, and after reflection , so have I. I may have only had a couple of contacts with Leo, but what he did touched all of us, and it is indeed very possible that his family could well remain unaware of how much his life connected with others world-wide . Must have taken him a fair bit of time over the last few years getting together all that info which he lovingly passed on to us. It is quite clearly the same man - the clues are in his profile - as a retired airline captain, the references he made to airplanes etc are an obvious link, as of course is the date of birth. He will definitely be missed. Edited June 30, 2012 by Irene S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_Coles Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I corresponded personally with Leo Dalton, as we did not live far apart in western PA. We did not manage to meet in person, though we invited each other to our respective star parties, sharing an interest (and job in my case) in astronomy. Yes, he was a retired US Air pilot - you can find threads here where he corrects our speculations about how air travel/bags/routing etc. worked. I will post something at the condolence site on behalf of C.net but encourage anyone else to post for themselves also...because I still use a phone modem for much of my admin work here (it's a long story), I do not watch many online videos and so did not follow the video threads closely. Will miss him! Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmzillaStomp Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I did not know Leo, but I want to express my condolences to those who did. His contributions to this site were invaluable to me, as I am sure they were to many others. Rest in Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 very sad. I always looked forward to his trawl thru' youtube for our entertainment chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Day Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Very sad news. We have lost a major contributor to this site. I too emailed Leo on many occasions a lovely man and a distant friend. I shall miss his postings. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takayuki YAGI Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Very sad news indeed. May he rest in peace. -- T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Timson Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I too would like to add my condolences. Sad. Very sad. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Only just seen this post. Thanks Irene for flagging it up. My condolences. He seemed like such a nice chap. And his contribution to the site will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene S. Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 In case any who have posted to this thread haven't seen it, Leo's son John has posted a message to the other thread about him here http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=14318 under the name (appropriately) of Son of Leo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son_of_Leo Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Don't mean to resurrect a long since dormant thread, but I just read a lot of this and you all really brought a smile to my face with the regards you held my father in. I'm glad he was able to contribute to such a delightful group of people, and provide good memories to you -- this is a nice way to spend my Sunday, reading through all these ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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