Bill, - Sad news... maybe you would post this on the FP List for me.

[Laura Brody]

  Ken and I have known Jim Asman for 30+ years. Worked with him many times
over the phone and email.  Met him once at a filePro thing. We are deeply
saddened to hear of his passing. He was the "go to" guy for printer
problems in filePro land. Extremely knowledgeable, helpful to a fault and
not a speck of arrogance. I have never heard anyone say anything less than
complementary about him. The world is poorer with his absence.

Laura & Ken Brody

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 3:30 PM Bill Randall via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> I just received this from John Esak who asked me to post to the list.
>
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>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Two days ago I tried calling Jim at our usual time. We talk twice a day
> usually.  He didn’t answer.  The next morning, yesterday, I called again
> after he walks his dogs at about 8am in the morning.  Still, no answer
> Called about 4 times more all day yesterday, no answer.
>
> Today, when I again got no answer on the morning call, I phoned up the
> RCMP office about 7 blocks from Jim’s house.
>
> They said they would send someone around to do a  “check well being” for
> me.  About 30 minutes later, a constable calls me and says, he is sorry
> , but the gentleman did not answer his door.  So, I said… ok then, he
> must have gone somewhere… although it’s odd that he didn’t mention it to
> me. Then just for no reason, I asked the policeman, “His car was not
> there, right?”  The man says, no, his car **was** there.  I said what
> about the dogs? Jim has two dogs!  He said, “Yes, they were in there
> barking, but the man didn’t answer.”
>
> I literally shouted at the guy, “You’ve got to get in there!  The man is
> obviously incapacitated or worse…” It was as if I woke the cop up… out
> of a daze or something… he said, “OH, you’re right… I’ll go back there.”
>   I told him to call me as soon as he knew what was happening.
>
> He called me about 30  minutes ago to tell me that he found Jim dead in
> his house. I asked if he was in bed, and all the constable would say is,
> “He died peacefully sir.”
>
> I thought I would send this out to the fP list, but I have not had
> membership on that forum for a very long time, and hoped maybe you would
> put this out there for me.
>
> You know I used to live near Les Paul, and after his good friend and
> assistant died, I used to help him in his studio from time to time. He
> once told me that you know when you’re growing old when all your friends
> begin to die off. Sadly, I have been through a good number of those
> experiences now, and Jim Asman was easily my **best** friend for the
> past 40 years since I met him on the CompuServe Forum. This drops my
> short list of BFF’s to less than I can count on the fingers of one hand.
>
> John Esak
>
> Tucson, Arizona
>
> P.S. I managed to reach Jim’s only son, Charlie… so you can put this out
> on the list immediately. I will follow up with any funeral arrangements
> that are forthcoming.
>
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