[AGL] predicted attendees at Stanley Walker's memorial

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Carmen,

I was told that Fletcher, driving, was in a car wreck. He was taken to 
hospital
and died several weeks later.

I don't know any details of Stanley's demise.

Fletcher way back was known as the Wizard. As you say, nobody was cooler 
than
Fletcher. From Wichita Falls. To give you an idea of the man, I ran into 
him at
Woolridge Park in the days when he was running the xerox machine in the 
basement
of a state building, Ann Richards having hired him. He railed against 
suicide citing
his days as an orderly at the State Hospital cleaning up afterwards. 
With great
dignity he said that despite losing his wife, his mother and his 
business (and his
health not so good), he meant to go on living - and so he did.

Mike

On 4/12/2017 1:20 AM, caus--- via Austin-ghetto-list wrote:
> Fletcher and Stanley were major figures in the group of cool dudes who lived in our time.  I was peripheral and did not have much time with either.  Mike, can you tell me what caused their demise?  Somehow I thought all of us would be here forever.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
> To: Frances Morey <frances_morey at live.com>; survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 11, 2017 1:06 pm
> Subject: Re: [AGL] predicted attendees at Stanley Walker's memorial
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> OFF LIST * * * EYES ONLY
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> when Fletcher Boone died, a memorial was held in the SGarten. i didnt
> attend but checked with someone who did. NOBODY got up and spoke
> about Fletcher, just drank i suppose.
>
> whoever organized that event, maybe Lilly, mustard been too whacked
> out to make it a memorial. at Stanley's it is more likely that there will
> be testimonials from those who knew him. If so, and if you're so inclined,
> you might email me a few words which i can print out and myself read
> them for you or anyone else you would prefer to me reading them.
>
> i remember the glorious apt he designed for you in that property of yours
> in West Campus.
>
> enjoy your down the Rhine trip, take lotsa pics, and post them to the
> list.
>
> On 4/11/2017 12:45 AM, Frances Morey via Austin-ghetto-list wrote:
>> I regret that I won't be able to make it. My husband, Mike Westergren and I are leaving for Basel, Switzerland on May 6 to take the Viking River Cruise from Basel to Amsterdam. He is in my thoughts. We remained friends through thick and thin.I spoke with Lily Boone and she said she believes that Robert Stanley, son of Stanley, will make it.Best,Frances
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>>     On Monday, April 10, 2017 10:27 AM, Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>    Dorothy Brown, Leila Brown, Lilly Boone, Angela Newnham, Frances Morey,
>> Claudette Lowe,
>> Eddie Wilson, Janet Gilles, Ed Penak, Beverly Veltman, Bill Smith, me,
>> wife Madelon,
>> Fontaine (maybe), Karen Willis (maybe), Roger Baker, Gerard Kinney, Dave
>> Richards
>> (if in town), Sandy Heiser, Mary Rowe, Stanley Walker's ex-wives and
>> girlfriends, others.
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>> It is said/I hear that Stanley was big on Facebook. He used to speak of
>> his unwritten masterpiece
>> on what  Austin really was about, somewhat like John Clay's ballads. And
>> of course, like
>> austin-ghetto-list whose mission as we well know is to reproduce the
>> reality of Austin Daze and
>> promulgate other lies.
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