Subject: Re: Norbert Blei
From: Kay price <[email-masked]>
To: Mary Schweitzer <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:34:18 -0500

Oh, sad news. He was a friend to the ADS. In years past he thanked me repeatedly for what I did for AD through the ADS. His words were so encouraging.  We corresponded for years after he was our speaker for WWF until his health started to deteriorate.  My emails went unanswered and I suspected poor health, which was later confirmed. We are losing so many of our loyal friends. 

I remember Blei joking with me and saying if I ever got my full of Derleth he hoped I would start a fan club for him. I hope Door County honors and remembers him in some way. Al Johnson is a loss too. I wish that restaurant would put a plaque on their wall about Norbert Blei and his visits there. 

Let us all put up a sign on our doors: Death Not Welcome Here! 
Kay

On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:45 PM, "Mary Schweitzer" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I am shaken by this news. He was very good to me in sharing some of his books. We spoke on the phone many times and had breakfast together at his favorite Al Johnson's Restaurant.
> The last time I was up to Door (which was last year at this time) the cancer was in remission. He really went through a lot the last several years and the middle of all this lost one of his best friends, Al Johnson.
>  
> Tracy, last year I saw many copies of Meditations on a Small Lake at Al Johnson's in Sister Bay and another Book Store in Fish Creek.
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> Norbert Blei passed away this morning.  He had been ill for some time.
>  
> JR