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Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - ezdays - 05-16-2020
Got this email this morning regarding hminky. Our prayers and thoughts go out to his family and friends. It's hard to say much more than that.
Quote:Reporting that Harold died March 26th while online with his train forums.
I'm his widow, would appreciate any interesting Harold anecdotes.
Eleanor Minkwitz
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - ngauger - 05-16-2020
Always a sad day to see another good member leave us. Harold contributed a lot of great information to Big Blue.
We learned much from him. Prayers and condolences to the family.
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - ezdays - 05-16-2020
I did send our condolences to Eleanor and told her that we have an area here as a memorial to our fallen flag friends. We can set something up there for her to see.
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - FiatFan - 05-16-2020
My sympathy to Eleanor and the rest of the family.
Don - I think that would be a good thing to set up.
Tom
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - doctorwayne - 05-16-2020
(05-16-2020, 09:08 AM)ezdays Wrote: I did send our condolences to Eleanor and told her that we have an area here as a memorial to our fallen flag friends. We can set something up there for her to see.
I agree.
Harold was a great innovator and always willing to share his ideas and methods with others. I often pictured him in a la-bor-a-tory (pronounced as if it were spoken by Boris Karloff), cooking up a new idea to share. He will be missed.
My condolences to Eleanor.
Wayne
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - Brakie - 05-17-2020
Sad news indeed.. He will be missed. My condolences to his family.
I agree we should set a memorial up.
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - Tyson Rayles - 05-17-2020
Sad news, my best wishes to his family and friends.
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - cn nutbar - 05-17-2020
I've always considered BigBlue as family and sadly we have lost our brother Harold---my sincere condolences to his wife Eleanor.
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - doctorwayne - 05-17-2020
Just a few minutes ago, I saw this on MR's site:
[quote user="xdford"]RIP Mr Minkwitz. His website (http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com) was always an inspiration to a lot of people with many ideas and I am pleased that his wife will keep it going for 12 months. [/quote]
It's nice to know that Harold's work will be around for a little longer.
Wayne
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - UP SD40-2 - 05-17-2020
(05-17-2020, 10:24 AM)doctorwayne Wrote: Just a few minutes ago, I saw this on MR's site:
[quote user="xdford"]RIP Mr Minkwitz. His website (http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com) was always an inspiration to a lot of people with many ideas and I am pleased that his wife will keep it going for 12 months.
OMG, thank you so much for posting that Wayne, I remember Harold's name plain as day, but I have been gone for quite a while so I was having a hard time remembering his work. After you posted that link it all came back to me, THANK YOU.
What I remember most of Harold's work was that was the VERY FIRST person I knew of that used fake fur for grass, and man Harold was a master at it. I marveled at just how real he could make fake fur look just like grass, truly a Master at that, and many other technics.
My condolences to his wife and family.
RE: Harold Minkwitz (hminky), Yet another fallen flag member - doctorwayne - 05-19-2020
Here's an update regarding Harold, with a post on the Bachmann Forums by his widow, Eleanor.
Wayne