Hey guys, as some of you are aware I’ve been concerned about Johno. It has been 6 days since I had heard from him. That’s very unusual for him. He’s really good about annoying me with 15-20 emails a day. I had some emails from him last week that were in the trash on my iPad but I hadn’t deleted them yet. Some of them were sent to multiple people and I was able to see their names and addresses. So I tried reaching out to them on a one by one basis. Finally a person named Dee got back to me. Dee said Johno hadn’t been emailing for about a week. After some back and forth I suggested Dee contact the police and get them to do a welfare check. Dee said they only corresponded by email and texting and had no idea where Johno lived. I said the hospital had his address. To make a long story short, I stayed up
In contact with Dee until about 3:30 am. I woke this morning to find a new email from Dee telling me that the police had been in touch. They ended up doing a forced entry into Johno’s home and he was found deceased in his bed. No further details except that they thought it had been a few days. Johno occasionally would send me articles from a paper over there called gumshoe news. It turns out that Dee is the owner and editor of the paper.
When Johno first appeared on the scene 5-6 years ago I didn’t care for him. I thought he was arrogant, not funny, and if I ever met him I was going to punch him in the face and knock him out. About 3 years ago I started emailing him. He was cautious about me as well. After a few days we had become friends. He had a dry sense of humor and I eventually learned how to take him and found him funny. He told me that he never found me funny. I will miss him.
I know that he would send you guys some emails too. Obviously you all meant something to him for him to do that.
I just felt that you should know the news that I was able to learn. I know that he was also in touch with Wirecutter Kenny Lane. I have not ever been in touch with him. If any of you have a way of contacting him, maybe let him know too.
Deathray
R.I.P. Johno
A giant of a tree has fallen. I guess some of us will meet him soon, I look forward to it!
Rest easy, Johno…
Thanks, Deathray for mailing me with what happened to our friend Downunder. I was quite saddened to hear the news. I was honestly hoping that the nurses had confiscated his phone after he groped a few of them in ICU. Though I had a bad feeling that wasn’t the case.
I will miss the good humored banter over my Ford’s and his Aussy Mopar’s. Some of his video suggestions were a bit on the odd side and he had a dry wit. I think he contacted us on a regular basis because he didn’t have many like minded people in his AO. I wish I had replied to his last email blast, just to know that he knew I had received it and appreciated his efforts. It’s weird to experience emptiness and loss over someone you never even met.
Johno may have been an odd duck, but he was my friend.
I will miss him.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
I would submit that everyone that meets up on a site such as this is an odd duck.
We do make for an interesting collection…
No offense,
I rather think perhaps most here just don’t tolerate idjits nd BS.
Besides, my 70+yo knees haven’t been able to duck walk for 2 decades!
(kudos to Angus).
Thanks the update Ceder Q.
To all others here-
mind youselves well.
Ya never know…
Juan
On a long enough timeline all our survival rates go to ZERO.
RIP Brother
Johnno has left the range. We are diminished.
What a curious world the internet has made, where people 1/2 way around the world who have never met in person, look out for one another.
I don’t know Deathray but have read mention of his name here often, I suspect he is somewhat of a curmudgeon like many of us that has a soft heart inside a rough outer shell.
Rest in peace, Johno !
I’ll say an prayer for you Mr. Johnno
RIP
No need to, Chutes – he’s in a MJUCH better place, free from the broken-down body and with his family.
He’s good, pray of us stragglers.
I emailed Kenny. I’m sure he’s heard from others, but I did too, just in case.
RIP, Johno. It was a good run! We’ll hoist a few for ya.
Good, I was going to email that old son of a biscuit eater if you haven’t.
I shoulda read all the replies before emailing Wirecutter lol. He needed to be harassed anyway…
-Hosedragger
Sorry to hear about another oldster shuffling of the coil.
Heartbreaking news. So sad. He will be sorely missed. Rest in peace Johno.
Didn’t know him but if he’s a friend here, he’s a friend.
RIP.
Randy
That’s too bad.
I liked his comments.
He often made me at least chuckle.
Prayers of comfort for his family and friends. I going to miss his banter keeping CederQ on his toes.
Condolences to his family.
RIP, Johno. You will be missed.
I will hoist a pint, and “See you in the afterlife.” RIP Soldier.
Thank you for the bad news, Cederq. We old gits need to stick together, but Johno’s flying solo on that one . . .
As they say, only the good die young!
Still not sure why hes dead?
Mc
Mc, Dee from Australia here, he was getting on I think. He had been in hospital for eye surgery, and was not that mobile. He had suffered several heart attacks. His last text was … the discharged him and sent him home as they needed a bed. Go figure. RIP.
Dee, thank you for your kindness and informing those here who are a great band of brothers and sisters even if we can be hard on each other at times. I have told Phil and Cederq that you bloggers have created community that has not existed since the quilting gatherings of old.
May all your days be blessed, send an obit link if one becomes available and always remember he is in a better place.
Dee, thank you for commenting here. Knowing he did have some friends from where he lived. He was well liked around here. I as well as a few others have traded few hundreds of barbs and quips that are uncounted with Johno. It all started on a blog that was based in Austria whose name escapes me and continued on this blog. Johno was certainly different and quirky and was hard to read if he was not very bright and coming to discover he was an intelligent man and had a lot of interests. I know he was a lonely man and that was all right as most of here have a lonely spot that we congregate as a community and can be just us, sarcastic, curmudgeonly, outliers that have sensed and appreciate kindred spirits. Johno will be missed by a few of us and the community at large. Please come back and comment and be part of us.
Kevin
Cederq
Well that’s distressing. I was a little concerned when he stated on these pages a few weeks ago that he was having heart trouble. Despite us having differences I thought he was an OK person. RIP.
Dammit, another great gone. I dread the day Eastwood goes.
God speed Johno, you will be missed.
ps Deathray I thank you for being so diligent in caring for a fellow curmudgeon. We should all be more like that.
Love ya brother.
This ^
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Condolences to his family, friends and those who knew him from his comments here; his unique sense of humor I (and others) appreciated.