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 This is my friend, Richard De Rose. Why
am I using his full name on here?
Tragically, my longtime friend for the past 23 years passed away on October 19, 2005 from complications due to diabetes.
I and your many friends miss you greatly.
Here is Richard's obituary that appeared in the Fresno Bee on October 21, 2005:
DeROSE, RICHARD M. — A rosary for Richard M. DeRose, 56, of Hanford will be
recited at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Whitehurst-McNamara Chapel. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Brigid Catholic Church. Mr. DeRose, a retail manager, died
Wednesday. Visitation will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at the chapel. Remembrances may be sent to Masses to the church of the donor's choice.
How Richard and I met was kind of interesting. We met in about 1982. I'd developed a
computer program for an old Texas Instruments 99/4A personal computer that did numerological charts. I sold those for $1.00 each at the Greyhound Park Swap Meet in
Phoenix, Arizona. He was fascinated by the program, since I believe that at that time he was a TI owner as well. Neither of us had ever seen a program like that. At any rate,
we'd fallen out of touch with each other. I'd moved to California and he stayed in Phoenix. I finally moved back to Phoenix in 1984 and we managed to meet each other
at state fair...how odd, but it's really a small world...and had pretty much stayed in touch until about 3 weeks before his passing. The last time I actually laid eyes on him was in
1999, when I took the picture above. It was taken when were were at the computer trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. I had chatted with him on the phone, through
webcams, and even voice over Yahoo Messenger, so I never forgot what he looked like.
I created a website for Richard called, "Just Friends" on Lemoorenet many years ago
and in 2009, it was finally taken down by apparently the new owners of the company after being up at least 11 or 12 years. I wanted to host it on my site, but there just
weren't enough visitors to his site after a year or so to justify it. Richard, I hope you're having a great time on that ol' Internet in the sky.
I mss ya, buddy.
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