On November 23rd, 2002 at 2:30am Dan Williamson passed away...
I have included a self bio that Dan wrote for his website at:
http://mysticalart.tripod.com/home.htm
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Family
picture was taken October 2002: Dan 30, Angela 27, Alexander (centre)
5, Nicholas (left) 2, and Christopher (right) 3 |
I
have also thrown together a simple message system below, for all of
Dan's family and friends. If you would like to share your thoughts
and memories of Dan feel free to do so. - Don Lloyd
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From the little I knew of Dan, I knew from the bottom of my heart that he was a kind and true friend. I asked Dan back in the summer of 2001 if he would be interested in creating a group of images for a game that I recently released. To this day, even though many artists participated in the project, his artwork stands out as unique. I created this page to honor Dan and to give my condolences to his family and friends. He will be greatly missed... |
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My uncle was a great man.He inspired me in more ways than one and he has really help me out alot.He was a strong and determined man and always got is two cents in. He had a great sense of humor as well. i am really gonna miss him so much so i would just like to say good-bye uncle danny and thank you |
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My husband and I have known Dan and his wife Angie and their kids for a few years now. The most wonderful and loving people you might ever meet. I'm not the artsy-fartsy type but I always enjoyed it when Dan would explain to me about the drawings he was working on. His eyes would lite up and he would proudly explain, with a chuckle, why the women had to be half naked. As I have seen his children eagerly pick up the drawing board I know he will live on in them. |
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Dans courage is probably the most I have seen in any one I know. He has been through some very uncomfertable and scarry medical situations. I my self have trouble with the flue shot. I give him credit for showing me that no matter what, you try to live as normal a life possible. Dan married the love of his live and is blessed with three Great boys. He gave his family and friends all the love he had. Dan you fought to be with us with the strength and courage of a thousand men. For that I salute you. We should all be greatfull for every thing we have even the little things we do like running up the stairs. Now you can breath easy and watch over us. Missing you Dave. |
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For all of you out there I am Dannys older sister. I am going to miss you little brother. I am happy that your pain is gone and I will help your family as much as I can and help the kids not forget your memory. You lived a very full life and it has ended too soon. You suffered and now it is gone. So goodbye little brother and peace be with you. |
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I just want to give my condolences to Ang and the kids. Uncle Dan was a great guy and he will be missed dearly. Goodbye Uncle Dan! |
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I read the e-mail this morning, and I felt it like a knife tear into me. |
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Leaves fall in the brilliance of autumn, bringing beauty and comfort before the frigid winter storms. |
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Dan IS and shall always be my friend. It is hard now to think that we will never speak again. He will always live in our memory. When we speak of him, make it loud, make it happy, celebrate the person he has been. When you think of him, smile, love him as you always have. At the very least I ask you think of one story that you can remember of him... and tell it with the passion that he lived his life. Tell it time and again, and through us he attains immortality. As long as I live, as long as any of us who Dan touched live, and as long as the stories of Dan live, he will be with us. We will miss him, I will miss him. This said I will not mourn Dan, I will celebrate his life, and how it changed me forever. |
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I first met Dan though the MUD Harshlands, in his character Dylis. I enjoyed the roleplaying and the out of character chats we had. Most of all, I wish he'd had longer in this life to spend with his family, because from my talks with him, I got to know how much he loved them and wanted to be there with them. |
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I meant Dan years ago through Harshlands MUD. What time I knew him was grand, and I will miss him. Thank you Dan, for your insparation in drawing. I wished I could have talked to you more, and I write this with a heavy heart. I counted you as my friend, and you always shall be. Rest in peace, and may you watch over your family from a better place. My prayers are with you and your family. God bless you. |
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Dan you were a good man. Being there for your children and wife doing what you could with what you were dealt. Your strenght is amazing to all. I only had the opportunity to know you for three years but even in that short time I liked you as a person. We liked many of the same things and I really enjoyed your company. I will sadly miss you as a friend. |
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I met Dan online through a mutual friend, Fred Ellis, and although I can safely say that Dan and I did not always agree there is no question of his courage in my mind, how he dealt with what came his way good or bad and always managed to make a contribution to the lives of others is what shows his true character. My condolences to his family and friends. |
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I am sitting here feeling stunned and guilty. Guilty because Dan, Angie and I were pretty good friends for a long while. Talking through the computer and on the phone together. Roleplaying and viewing his drawlings. The guilt comes from drifting away and getting so caught up in my own life that when I lost their address and phone number in a computer crash, I kept thinking "Oh, I will ask so and so about it tomorrow." |
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I am Danny's Aunt and his mother's sister. I have many wonderful memories of this young man. He always had a quietnes about him and seemed so deep in so many ways. He was a wonderful father and husband and loved his family so much. I feel that his life was so blessed when he met Angie and God gave her to him to help him through these difficult times. We are all better people for knowing him and I will miss him and know that he is with God and is in no more pain. We all have a responsibility to be there for Angie as a family and help her and her boys. Goodbye Danny I Love You |
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I have already left my message here, but I have a request to make. Please send me your stories you have about Dan. I will compile them in to a pamphlet, or booklet or book, depending on how many submissions I get. He was worried that he would be forgotten, this would be a good way to ensure that it never happens. |
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((((((HUGGSSS))))))) |
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I met Dan through Harshlands MUD as well. He will be missed. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. |
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"Mean old levy, taught me to weep and mourn..." -Led Zeppelin |
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While i did not now Dan in a very personal way, we did know enough of each other to stop and hold brief yet full conversations. I know that he filed his life and those around him with enjoyment. |
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It is a shock to learn of Dan's passing. He more or less introduced me to online RPGs... I played in a D&D game that he ran, and then he was one of the people who introduced me to Harshlands several years ago. I was always impressed by Dan's artistic talents, and I could always count on his game characters making an impression on those around him. I never met Dan in person but considered him an online friend, and I wish the best to his family and friends. |
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I also met Dan through Harshlands with his character Konner. I'll never forget entering into my first RPI and having Konner tell me to grab my things because he's taking me to Leriel. |
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Well I did not know Dan personally I did know his mother in-law Linda. We met playing word games on the net. Linda always spoke lovingly of Dan, Angela and thier Son's. Through Linda I met Angela. My heart goes out to all of you during this time. |
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Dan is a very very old friend. I used to think he was just my brothers friend when we were young, he used to tease me just as much as Fred. We would bike out to his parents place in Oliphant I remember days of shooting Gi-Joes with pellet guns and playing with his White Mustang Cobra Hotwheels, and hanging out in the fort we had. I don't remember alot of my childhood, as like Dan I moved around a fair bit, but I have never forgotten those days. His passing has saddened me deeply, and my thoughts go out to his friends and family. We have lost a great man, but he will forever live on in our memories, and in his sons. I am sure they will grow to make him proud, as he has made us all of him. I'll miss you Dan, we'll see you soon. |
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Once upon a time, in a very special drawing, sat an empty chair and a bowl of fruit was placed carefully on the table before the empty chair. |
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Dan was our cousin through Ange,and he will always be our talented & creative cousin. We always looked forward to our visits with Dan, Ange and the boys. He always made us feel loved and welcome by playing games,showing us new stuff on the computer and trying to teach us how to draw. (It never worked) We love you and we will miss you with all our hearts. Hugges and Kisses |
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I am Dan's Aunt through Ange & what can I say about Dan. I will always remember Dan's great pride & patience when it came to the showing of his art work or his computer game which to this day I still do not understand. What Dan & I had in common were movies, we would discuss them at length. I will always remember the love that Dan showed for my niece, Ange and his three beautiful energetic children. I will always hold a warm spot in my heart for you always & forever. I LOVE YOU & will MISS YOU very much. Hugges and Kisses. |
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Memories of Dan ? Poem from his Uncle Ellwood. gAKA Uncle Woodyh |
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All these thoughts rush around in my head thoughts of the times that we all had. Remembering the old tree out behind the house on the hill that tree would scare me so. And you guys knew that and loved feeding on that fear. We use to play in the huge snow drifts. I loved going to visit there whenIwas a child. But things change and people change. We all move on in this game of life. I lost touch with all the friends I used to know. But I did not loose the feeling you get when a connection is made. You may not have been in my life for many years this is true, but a bond was formed long ago and that will always be. I want to pour my heart onto this page for you who mourn this day. I cant be there so this is my way. My way to say we dont ever have to forget. This loss to us will be a beginning for him just always keep that in your mind and try to find that strength that he had in all the years before. We all know that Danny was strong, stronger than most to go through what he had to. Struggle on as we do day to day. Know that each passing second is one to remember. The funny thing about time is that there is no watch that can reverse time as hard as some would try. Our mind is a time machine. It can take us anywhere we wish sometimes reason is hard to locate in a loss such as this. Reason is but a word and love is everything. To love is to know. Love knows no boundaries love is like the tide. It can get swept away but it will always wash up on another shore to spread over the cosmos. Love is energy and energy is all around us always. Love is a paradox without it we would not be. So know that you dont just touch love, it is a feeling that will never die it does not lie it just is. Living this many miles from my family hurts in times like these I want to be there for everyone. I want to embrace yours hearts and give my hope and love to all. I cant say he was too young to pass on for I do not believe in death only life in different forms. We love we live we learn we move forth and do it again Ill see you in my dreams tonite Ill watch you soar in flight well sit and talk by the big tree and reminisce bout the way things used to be Danny you are to me just like that old tree I dont know if it is still there but it will always be there in my mind and my heart a memory is where we start. |
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"Let me take your hand for love, and sing you a song," said the traveller. "The journey is a hard journey, but if we hold together in the morning and the evening, what matter if the hours between their is sorrow?" |
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The first time I met Dan I was 15 and spending my summer with my cousin Ange. They had just started dating. Dan had his grey stud car and his heavy metal music. He was the one who made me appreciate Led Zepplin. Kashmier was our song. How ever I refused to become subject to his other favorites White snake, Ozzy, and any other metal favorites and I always made it a point to tell him how awful I thought the music was, It was our joke thing I always was straight from the hip. What I can remember from that summer was Dan going so fast around a corner that I did a complete 360 in the back seat. Dan also had a piece of crap chevette that he taught me how to drive standard reversing into a corn field. He also taught me how to drink or do I mean how to be sick. My first experience with Peach snapps and being so drunk and sick to this day cannot touch the stuff. He was very funny and completly his own person. I am very sad that he is gone it is unfair the operation should have been successful and I will never understand how and why he could not still be with us today. He will be missed!!! |
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From what I know about Dan, which isn't very much, he loved Ange and his children with all his heart. And, for someone who seems to me to be very guarded and closed about his feelings, he still had that gleam in his eye when it came to his wife and kids. I was fortunate enough to be a part of their wedding and to be welcome in their home, that has always been something I've felt from Dan, Ange and the children, to be welcome. |
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I met dan in high school while i was watching him and others play d&d.he quickly became and remains a very close friend of mine.physically his heart was not strong, but emotionally it was one of the strongest i know. seeing him with alex,christopher and nicholas was evidence enough, he loved them deeply. i too was taught how to drive standard by dan (as was most of bruce county). he was always our "getaway driver", we were always doing things we shouldn't have(sorry dave senior).one night in owen sound after sniping at cats, and humans with our pellet guns(dans was a .22 caliber!, ouch)we were taking a break, sitting in a parking lot in his cutlas, guns and ammo thrown in the back seat, a police cruiser pulls up behind us.dan and i froze.the cops walk up to the car flashlights in hand and tell us they have received complaints about some troublemakers with pellet guns and wondered if we "knew anything" Ahhh... no officer, no idea. they found the guns and continued to try and make us talk, like that was going to happen! they had to let us go, but we got the message. we also drove around wiarton one night stealing everyones lawn ornaments only to later plant them all on one of our friends lawns(we chuckled)imagine looking out on your front yard in the morning to a sea of flamingos, dwarves, deer etc.(maybe you had to be there) i am missing you already dan, drive safely. |
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I didn't know Dan very well, but I knew he was a good man. I appreciated talking and role-playing with him when I got the chance. He was a great guy, and will be missed. |
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It has been 12 years since I first met Danny. The image will never leave me. Remember it comes from the mind of a thirteen year old. It was the end of grade 8 and someone was having a party, mom and dad wern't home and I was anxious for a ride there. Danny and Ange just pulled in the driveway and she said "Danny can drive you". But I insisted that the rules were strick NO driving in cars with boys. I had never been in a car driven by a teenager before let alone a boy. Off we went. It was amazing. COOL CAR - silver cutlus, red inteior with things scratched into the old faded vynal. COOL MUSIC - heavy metal Coverdale Page or some other band loudly playing and a COOL GUY - Dan. I was arriving in style. I was way too scared to move or even speek during the whole car ride. It was like I was sitting beside a rock star, stunned and not knowing what to ask. As he sped down the gravel road, stones shooting up and pinging off the wheel fenders, we finally arrived at my friends house. The moment ended with a perfect statement that only an intimidated thirteen year old girl could say after the most exciting ride of her life. "Thanks" I slamed the car door and ran inside. |
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Our sincere condolences from the Hammond Family. |
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Dan was an awesome husband . . .then father. We shared everything. Our happiness, our pain, our excitement our anger and our sadness. People often said to me, "Ange, I don’ |
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Danny is our Son-in-law, we always considered him Our Son. He came into our |
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Gone are the days you used to share, |
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wow, reading all of those emails really takes me back to high school in wiarton, and loads of crazy times. i loved winging around in the car with carrie, ange and dan and listening to zeppelin, too! we played Kashmir over and over again. |
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Just wanted to send our condolenses in memory of a loving husband who was so brave to even consider going thru such an operation. He was such a brave man. He was my son's good friend and used to drop in with Ange at times. He will always be remembered and our thoughts are with his family at this sad time. |
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Thinking of you today. Miss you! |
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I hope that Ange is ok, and I worry about the three kids, but I don't worry too much. Dan and I never really got along but we always agreed on how lucky he was for what he had. The best thing I will carry about Dan is his relentless sense of humour at his own sake about his physical difficulties. Especially to those of us who pretended to care when we asked, but were just filling time. Dan, I think you were a good man, I think your marriage proved that to me. Good luck in the beyond. I'll se you in the Hall |
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Happy Birthday Dan. |
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I am always thinking of you. Dave and I were up at the farm this winter and we knew you were there laughing at us shoveling all that snow. Happy 31st, love you. |
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Happy Birthday Dan I found this poem this morning and thought Angie would enjoy it I know that you are not in any pain and are in a better place. I love you Dan |
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The Leafs are on fire, Dan, just in time for your birthday, and I framed our last hockey pool update. |
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Owen Nolan makes his Leaf debut tonight. |
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Happy Belated Birthday Dan. W e were thinking of you on your Birthday and all, but you know us something always comes up. We Miss You, Thinking of You always. You would be very proud of Alexander, He got his First Trophy for Hockey. Love Mom Bradley |
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I was thinking about you today... 12/24/03. I gave up working on my game stuff when you passed away. I just lost the energy to even think about it anymore. Your passing made me wonder what was really important in life, and I questioned my life a little bit. I have started working on things again, including the project that I worked with you on. I guess this will be a tribute to you. This will be the last project we worked on together. Merry Christmas man... |
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Dan your sons are growing into such beautiful young men and you would be so proud of Angie and all the things that she is doing with her life. You are greatly missed and have touched my life in a very special way and I think of you often and the joy that you brought to so many. I love You and miss you at this special time of year I know that God is watching over your family and that you are in a better place and have no more pain |
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I never knew Dan I also know this is kind of late to be giving my condolences. I did love his art from elfwood though. He really is/was amazing. |
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Well Danny you would be 32 today. I'm thinking of you always. Miss you. |
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we all miss your company. |
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I am not one for looking backward but I am thinking of you Dan. Playing starwars with a new group of people brings back memories. Wish you were still around to share them with me. Hope you are well where you are. Try not to be to obstinate :) Miss you man. |
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Old email address: rhammo5369@rogers.com |
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Danny,I got married! I wanted you to know! C |
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It's a Saturday. |
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Dear Angela...My older brother, at 42, is losing his 7 years fight with cancer right now. He means the world to me and he is my life, It is very hard knowing what is to come. I search these memorie website every once in a while, reading the notes and things kind of helps to brace me in a way. I don't know what I will do when his day comes, but I know that his life will forever be lived through my own. Kenny will shine just as bright as Dan just like he has the past 42 years. I am so sorry for your husbands death, I pray that he is resting in peace. Best of luck to you!! |
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There is a long slope to climb and the winter is cold. It is colder without you. I look forward to the summit where you will greet me and we will ride downhill without cares. Thinking of you. |
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A very hot Summer of 2006, thinking of the shade and cool drinks we often shared. |
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It's January 2007! On Saturday night January 13th, Ron, Dad and I decided to pull out the scrabble game. I used to play frequently but haven't played for a long time. When I opened the box I found a note, left by Dan, from that fateful night before we left for his heart transplant. The following are the words he wanted us to hear in his passing,"Here I lay before you all, one last time, with only this to say. Bare my name on no headstone, so my soul won't be tombed. It will be free to dance when the highlanders pipe their forbidden tunes. Upon the fires end, let the wind wisp my ashes free. Until they come to rest under my apple tree." ~Dan Williamson FEB 1972-NOV 2002 |
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Fleet footed through the woods, run fast my friend and far and smile as you journey. |
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its the little things that make life worth living. |
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I met Dan through Harshlands in 1998 when I was eighteen. Being mutually stubborn, we constantly clashed in the most amusing of ways only to return to deep and meaningful conversation soon after. Just before and during my stint in the military, Dan gave me some advice that I've since memorized. Even though it has been four years since his death, I still think to log into ICQ now and again to seek his advice. Though our last conversation was abrupt and his presence dearly missed, I like to think that he would have been quite amused at having had the last word in our final argument. |
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Almost 7am here, drunk, superbowl is today. I was surprised to see this site is still up. |
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Feb 26, 2007...Would have been 35 today! |
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Its hard to believe that five years have already come and gone. I think one of the things that bothered me the most about Dan passing away was that we are the same age. Sometimes I wonder if people look back and remember old friends and good times. I would hope so, but everything seems to go by so fast these days. Like these past five years. Does anyone out there still think about Dan? - 2/26/2008 |
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