Index for 2009

162: Jack Powelson, 1920–2009, by Jack Powelson

"It seems strange to be writing one's own obituary, but that's the way life and death go. When I was in college I chauffeured an elderly retired judge who wrote his own obituary for the newspaper. The least I can do is write mine for The Quaker Economist, the journal I founded eight years ago. Yes, this is an obituary. I died on January 1, 2009, after a brief illness. I had a good life, and it had to end sometime...." [3 Jan 09]