Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Rest in Peace, Dev-Em

Here is my favorite Dev post.

I love David's interaction with his daughter in that thread.

sweet memory!!

Yeah... that's fantastically sweet.

Yes, it is.

For those not on Facebook:

Dev's wife posted

will post the obituary as soon as it is available but here are the arrangements for my love:
Pixley Funeral Home
322 W. University Drive
Rochester, Michigan 48307
The viewing will be 2pm-8pm on Sunday 11/15
The funeral is at 11am on Monday 11/16 David will lie in
state at 10am. Hannah's middle school pastor RJ Grunwald has
graciously agreed to do the service. Everything is at Pixley. I am just too tired to move around too much more.
Thank you for your love and prayers.

I've been thinking about Dev non-stop since I found out yesterday morning. I keep thinking about when we started planning the Lord of the Oval novella, which started out as PMs between Lardy, Dev and I after we had so much fun doing a roleplay on the MMB. At the time we only had facebook to do a threeway private message like that. I was in London on a business trip, totally exhausted and jet-lagged and all the while at 2:00 AM and 3:00 AM I'm getting these hilarious and often brilliant messages from Lardy and Dev. It was like we were 9 years old and just discovered how instant messenger works.

That was one of his specialties though--quick one-liners that jump on an in-joke and turn it into the thread. Its one of the specialties most of us share and what the LMB is founded on.

This board is filled with his posts. Over 12,000 of them. It'll be nice to continue to see them again and again when I look at old threads.

All Dev's death has made me think is that November, for me, is now officially the worst month of the year for me since 2009. There's always drama, and always nonsense, and now it feels like friends dying has been added to the mix.

I lost another friend last November.

I, I didn't know how bad Dev's health problems were.

Those of us on Facebook only found out about a week and a half ago.

Wait. Wait.

I'm sorry. You meant him being sick. Not that he died.

I'm so sorry.

FYI Flowers have been sent to Dev-em's funeral.

The card reads:

To our pal Dev-em, Number One Superhero

Your friends on Legion World

This is really sad new, Dev was a legend. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

I did some geocities archives scraping and was able to find his very first LMB post. Just 8 days after the org was founded he was named Member #25, causing Lash to jettison the initial 25 member limit (and "whew" for that ).

About halfway down this page:

http://www.geocities.ws/lmbarchives/000210-8.html

I so remember that well thanks so much

walking ring and barette how high or more likly drunk was I?

Whatever you were smoking or drinking, it's surely legal in the 31st century.

Dev was a gold mine of great stories, riotous post-a-thons, etc. It always made me feel good to read his stuff. My thoughts are with him, and the loved ones he had to leave behind.

You're the best, Quis.

Unfortunately, I just started another job that doesn't pay out 'til December. I was idle for a month before I started. So I don't think I can do the GFM thing at the moment.

Jennifer and Dave's mom put together a nice photo gallery, and there's an online guest book.

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/di...=2739&pid=176472225&mid=6672389#

I don't know if there's anyone else in the area these days, but I'll be going to the funeral home on Sunday. I can't make it to the funeral Monday.

Seymour, it's great that somebody can go. I wish I could at least Skype a message or something. (Don't actually have Skype.) Please let us know how Sunday goes.

What cleome said.

I have posted on the guestbook as well. I am sure Dev's family appreciates any message.

Seymour PLease GIVE Jenn and the kids a giant hug from me!

original art by Dev:

Wow, that was about a year and a half before I found the DCMB Legion boards...

Absolutely!

I signed the guest book but guess I did it wrong as I don't see the message.I sure don't want jenn to feel slighted, very frustrating. I did freaking better when I had feaking WEBTV.