The youngest Roanboy lost his good friend Peter this week to cancer.

Peter Dubon

November 21, 1997 - August 15, 2012

 He had a beautiful smile and was as tough a little man as you are ever likely to meet.

"Maybe just a little bit" afraid of death.

As a life long Wolverine, you can count on the fingers of one hand the Spartans I've ever pulled for.

Bubba Smith followed by George Webster and Sherman Lewis was the first, then Magic, then ................. yup that's about it.

A terror on the football field and an incredibly big damn teddy bear off of it, Bubba Smith epitamized the phrase class act.

I can honestly say that I have never heard or read a bad word about the man.

Click on the photo below for a nicely done tribute by Joe Howley at The Daily Tribune.

Rest in peace big fella.

One of the great safeties in the history of Michigan football was lost to cancer today.

Vada Murray 1967-2011

Way too damn young.

Thanks to Vada and Michigan Historian for the memories.

Aaahhhhh, Keith Jackson.

You had to be there.

Ernie Harwell 

(January 25, 1918 — May 4, 2010)

The only announcer in baseball history to be traded for a ballplayer.

"He knew Ty Cobb and Justin Verlander."

Obituaries suck.

They pretty much have to.

Who the hell has the time to give a rat's ass about some other guy's friend?

What newspaper has the column inches to give anyway? 

The man below, you couldn't do justice to in ten thousand words.

The final issue here has to do with the fact that he wouldn't want it anyway.

Gerhard preferred to "keep things quiet".

So, I'll say this much and then leave it alone.

One of the two or three most honorable men I've ever known.

Gerhard Stadler Sr.

November 10, 1927 - March 19, 2010

Gerhard Stadler, Sr., beloved husband of Isabella (nee Baumgartner). Loving father of Katharina (Werner) Linder, Gerhard Jr. and Dr. Frank (Dr. Marcia Lu). Cherished grandfather of Alexander Linder; Christian, Nicholaus and Isabella Stadler. Gerhard worked at the First National Bank of Chicago for 30 years where he became Vice President. As a world renowed expert of precious metals, he began the Precious Metals Department. He later continued his expertise as Vice President of LaSalle National Bank. For the past 15 years, he owned and operated Water Tower Precious Metals at Lakeside Bank.

Rest in peace my friend.