{"id":3434,"date":"2019-11-02T03:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T07:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2019-12-02T01:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:13:59","slug":"tribute-to-scott-davis-1945-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2019\/11\/02\/tribute-to-scott-davis-1945-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Scott Davis 1945-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two and a half years have passed since I lost one of my best ever friends, Scott Edward Davis, to heart failure. I have finally been able to pull myself together enough to collect some photos and to relate some memories.<\/p>\n\n\n

I’ll start with a copy of his obituary<\/a><\/strong> and some photos I came across. I’ll add to this post as I find more things I want to share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scott in California, on a trip we took to the Reno area in the summer of 1992.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A page from my photo album, showing the days before GPS and cellphones. Remember phone booths? That’s Geoff, trying to find our destination, which was about an hour east of Sacramento. Once we were finished there, we traveled on to Reno, where he and Scott and I did enough gambling to be comped for room and food at Harrah’s. It was one of my more successful trips to the craps table, where I won over $2,000. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The duck on my t-shirt is the Drake in the Drake Hill River Run, a 10K race that went by Scott’s house in Simsbury Connecticut. At the time of this picture, Brooke and Scott both worked (as did I) at Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in Bloomfield, and we shared our love of sports, drinking, and gambling. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two and a half years have passed since I lost one of my best ever friends, Scott Edward Davis, to heart failure. I have finally been able to pull myself together enough to collect some photos and to relate some memories. I’ll start with a copy of his obituary and some photos I came across. … <\/p>\n

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