My friends, and as yet unmet friends. Dan's wife Robin has posted this and I want to share it with you:
My dear friends and family,
Thank you, everyone, for your beautiful messages. It warms my heart to know how much Dan was loved and will be missed. A celebration of his life has been planned and here is the information…I hope you can either attend or keep him in your thoughts and heart during this time.
Friday, January 31st at 2:00-4:00 pm
Friendship Park Conservatory
395 W. Algonquin Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
In lieu of flowers, please donate to or volunteer at your local Scout Troop. Particularly to those troops that have integrated girls as Dan was a huge proponent of the equality of men and women. Kindly earmark those donations to upgrade troop camping equipment, and to setting up scholarships for Scouts who cannot afford treks at Philmont.
To assist in this celebration, it would be wonderful to receive your fondest memory and pictures of Dan so please reply to this email DanRemembered2020@gmail.com. If you have hard-copy pictures and not able to scan and send, please reply and let me know so we can work it out.
I encourage you to forward this email to anyone you feel would want to know.
With love and appreciation,
Robin Ludwig Rohrman
This is a tremendous and unexpected shock--as all passings are--but this one had no warning(as far as I know).
If you had a chance to interact or appreciate Dan--any message to her would uplift her spirits and be a wonderful thing for our community to do (I think).
I still can't believe this has happened...My Tuesday/Thursday nights are going to ring hollow without the guy who "Spent half his money on Whisky, Women and Wargames, and wasted the rest"....
And the messages of health, and how we all need to be cognizant of it for ourselves and the impact on our Families-- well--that causes me to want to see Dan's passing
as a warning and opportunity.
So---I'd like to propose the "
Dan Storm Memorial Challenge" --- All of us should track our weight, blood-pressure, exercise frequency....Let's all drop at least a pound/month and get out and walk at least a few miles per week...This is about keeping ourselves alive....we are so fortunate to live in a time when the demands are
so few we sit so much---but the downside is we do just that...and it can kill us.
Anyone interested in doing some remote gaming, and facing off over the computer (or in person)? --- I will take you on--- but we both start tracking!! In a year I want
my weight down (253) and my blood pressure better! (156/110)....
So--any takers? Do you have it in you to face me on the map-board and get healthy? I will be relentless....."
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!"
cj
-- For Dan.
