RIP: Joel Koltner has passed away

From the prayers for All Souls' Day (November 2):

Father of all, we pray to you for those we love, but see no longer: Grant them your peace; let light perpetual shine upon them; and, in your loving wisdom and almighty power, work in them the good purpose of your perfect will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayers for Joel and his family.

Phil Hobbs

Must be going around... wife of a friend in New Zealand died of cancer two days ago... mid '30's :-( ...Jim Thompson

Deep sigh, No card, but please pass on my condolences.

George H.

He was way too young.

A Joel story:

Several years ago there had been a number of questions regarding MSK on the newsgroups, and damn-little information available on the web. My Master's thesis was on the subject, but the floppies with the text were long gone. I put a plea up on this group, and comp.dsp, for someone willing to take the time to scan the thing in.

Joel did -- and I'm sure it was at least a two-day job. I shipped the thing down to him in Klamath falls (with fingers crossed, since it was my only copy), and a couple of weeks later there was an enourmous zip file in my inbox, and a time to meet him in Portland to pick up my hard copy.

He was truly a generous and kindly soul, and he will be missed.

Very sorry to hear that, he was one of the persons in SED whose posts were always bright and constructive.

Did not know he lived in Portland, I happen to travel to the place two weeks from now ...

Regards, Mikko

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:39:48 -0700 Joerg wrote in Message id: :

That sucks.

He was a great contributor on the Yahoo Tektronix groups and will be sorely missed. Condolences to his entire family.

RIP Joel.

That is sad news.

My condolences to his wife and family.

Joel was always a helpful and knowledgeable contributor-- sad news indeed.

I've missed Joel, and I'll miss him more. Sad to know he's gone.

James

He was from Portland. When I knew him he was living most of the time in Grass Valley and coming up to Portland. I don't know whether he ended up in one spot or the other permanently.

Please give the family my condolences, and that they are in my prayers as well.

He was active on the Tekscopes group. I think he may have worked at Tek. Does anyone have a link to the obit? I also offer my prayers and condolences to his family.

I think this is it:

Jon

Or this shorter link:

Joel didn't work at Tek. I could fill you in a bit but not here in public.

Guys, I'll wait a few more days, then I'll compile all the condolences with names, Phil's prayer, and so on into one long message and send it to Joel's wife and family.

Those of you who have sent cards, consider sending another one several months down the road. Once relatives, friends and everyone else has gone and returned to normal life, that's when grief can hit a second time and real hard. Then it's good to know that people are still thinking about the family.

Good deal Joerg. I see from the obit that he was only 41 years old. That's much too early for this to happen. Thanks for what you are doing. I bet it will be a great help.

Regards

I read Joel was only 41 years old! That is way too young to die.

Yikes! I didn't know he was that young. Truly a shame.

Seems almost an epidemic of cancers in young people.

You'll recall that our son Duane died of colon cancer at age 33 :-(

And Terry Given's wife (he used to post here from New Zealand until his ISP dropped SED), young, don't know exact age, died two days ago from complications from breast cancer... impaired lung capacity. ...Jim Thompson