Goodbye Chuck.  Many thanks for your great help.  We were honored to be on
the same list with you.  I hope, we can carry on the same in the same
spirit, for the same reasons.  Your efforts are embedded in our vans, your
teachings in our minds.  We grew richer by your kindness and happy
enthusiasm.  Your life was not wasted here.  We all got a little bit of you.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Budd Premack" <bpremack@MN.RR.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:08 AM
Subject: Goodbye to Chuck Hill

> After a long and valiant fight against prostate cancer, longtime
> Listmember Chuck Hill died this past Friday.  For many months as the
> disease progressed, he had been receiving home care at the family farm
> near Dysart, IA through the local hospice program.
>
> Besides his numerous local activities, Chuck has been reknowned in the
> VW community for his encyclopedic knowledge of Vanagons and his
> willingness to share it with everyone.  His collection of dozens of
> Vanagons and other vehicles has caused more than one visiting VW
> enthusiast to wonder, "Is this Heaven?  No, it's Iowa."
>
> Chuck and his wife, Barb, were frequent participants at many VW
> camping activities and developed a wide circle of friends, many of
> whom were welcomed to stay at their home whenever they were in the
> vicinity.
>
> Chuck was a witty and thoughtful conversationalist who generally had
> something appropriate to say on topics as diverse as politics,
> cuisine, and mechanics.  As one whose time came way too soon, he will
> be missed by all who had the good fortune to meet him.
>
>
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