Its been better than a month since he posted was wondering if hes Okay about 2 weeks ago got and email returned something about server couldn’t find or something like that.
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i found his phone number and I found out by calling that he has died he died the 8th of March. was burried this past monday.
may you rest in piece Navy Jack
Sad times for the Coffee Pot. I thought of him yesterday. Thought it was one of those times he did not post for a few days. Did not realize how long it had been. I think this is a first for the Coffee Pot. [:(]
RIP NAVYJACK - sad news.
Ray
I was truly impressed with the man. I don’t know what his affliction was, but for him to be a parapalegic, and confined to bed, what a miserable life. He didn’t seem that old either. He sure brought around the feeling that if you think you have it rough, look around a little bit, and someone is always having a worse time of it. Didn’t hear him complain alot, just commenting on situations. I hope that his family is not taken advantage of for his train collection. (Its too bad that TCA, TTOS, or some organization doesn’t provide some type of free valuation service for surviving spouses.)
Rest in Peace, Jack! We will miss you !
May God have mercy on his eternal soul
You will be missed
I might have been the last one from the Pot to speak with him. I called him on either the 5th or 6th. He said that he would call me last weekend and when he did not I thought that he was not feeling well. The last time that I spoke with him he started loosing his voice, but that happened often. We both looked forward from hearing from one another and he was a wealth of knowledge. He was bedridden, the effects from exposure of Agent Orange. He was woking on building up his strength to operate a small layout by his bed. He had a very interesting life and we shared a lot of the same interests and likes.
We were planning on meeting this summer. I was to go to his house and help him build his layout, on wheels, so that his wife, Gigi, or the health care worker could attend to him.
He had a great sense of humor and we sometimes spent over an hour on the phone. I will miss him for sure.
Rest in Peace, Jack, I will sound the whistle long and loud.
John
RIP Navy Jack. I will miss reading your posts.
Jack seemed like a really nice guy and we spoke on facebook several times. I don’t think he would mind if I posted his picture from his FB page.
Hope that link works here. Prayers for his family and friends.
http://www.buckwheelerhyland.com/obits/obituaries.php/obitID/711297/obit/Jack-W-Virgin-Sr
Sad news, RIP Jack.
You will be missed Navyjack.
Good morning all,
My condolences to the family. Always enjoyed his posts. Will blow the whistle once for him. This IS a tough year.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Navyjack…I will blow the whistles for you. I hope you will rest in peace.
Chuck
Prayers for NAVYJACK. I’ll TOOT the whistle tonite for you. RIP.
laz57
Rest in peace, NavyJack.
Like the rest of you I am stunned by the sudden passing of NavyJack. The Jack I came to know through this forum looked ahead.
The CTT forum, the POT, and the folks he has met here expanded his world outside the four walls of his home and connected him to a world he could not otherwise have discovered.
Though I had never spoken with him by phone, Jack and I had exchanged emails since last August. Our personal paths had never crossed, but we shared stories of growing up in the same neighborhoods in Chicago around the same time. Early in my life we lived just a mile apart, later about three miles. Growing up we went to the same beaches, the same miniature golf course, the same hot dog stand, and the same Chicago park district facilities.
His wife Gigi was the light of his life. His simple joys and his most serious concerns always seemed centered around his family and a neighbor in need, not himself. Despite his condition, he was looking forward to the day when he could operate a modest layout. Just over three weeks ago he observed to me that his prayers for better health care for his family and himself might have been answered, but where that went I don’t know.
His 22 years of service to his country speaks volumes about the man. And if his passing has taught me one thing it is this. We are given just this day, no more and no less. We can choose to embrace it. Or we can waste it, caught up in meaningless worries and concerns.
Like the rest of you…had I known NavyJack would leave us so soon, I might have tried harder to have been more to him and for him.
Rest in peace, Jack.
Jack
Sad about this. Just spoke to him too - about trains, the weather, his growing up in Chicago…
Rest in Peace Navyjack. Prayers for your family.
We had exchanged some PMs via the forum and I was expecting an answer from him that never came and did not know why but had assumed his health was the cause. I, as all of us, will miss him.
I lost a very good friend and co-worker 10 years ago due to Agent Orange. At the time they did not know how bad it really was and the front line troops regularly got showered in it. May you also rest in peace Larry.
Sad news indeed.
RIP Jack. Prayers for your family.
[angel].
Sad news. I never had close contact with Jack, as I have not been real active on the forum since he started posting, but it is a blow to have a forum member pass away suddenly like that. Rest in Peace Jack, our prayers go out to his family.