BozemanLUG
Submitted by Scott Dowdle on Sat, 2006-12-09 08:30.
Brief History
Ken Dyke founded the BozemanLUG in the Spring of 2001. While I attended several of the early meetings, my memory about the forming of the group is quite sketchy. I believe it was an offshoot of the Unix Users Group.
Ken Dyke moved to Helena in mid 2005 and continued to coordinate meetings. In Sept. 2005, Scott Dowdle (formerly with the BillingsLUG) move to the Bozeman area and took over coordination of the group.
On early Monday morning, October 29th, 2007 Ken Dyke passed away in a Helena hospital as a result of cancer. We'll miss you Ken!
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Ken Dyke
Submitted by Judy Thompson (not verified) on Sun, 2007-10-28 03:30.
I hope this gets out to BozemanLUG members for me. Let me introduce myself, my name is Judy Thompson. I am Ken Dyke's significant other.
Last Thursday Ken found out that his aching back was not actually an on the job injury. As some of you might know, Ken had quite a battle with melanoma cancer over 2 years ago. We found out last Thursday that it has returned in full force. Friday the oncologist told us that he might have a few weeks to a month to live. He is currently under a heavy morphine regimen as it has spread to his vertebrae and liver as well as other important organs. If you want to try to email him, he might see it. As of yesterday he did get out of bed to check his email once. He was suppose to do some work for KCC, however he slept most of the day and forgot about it.
If anyone wishes they can email me off list (tazjudy@mt.net), call me at 406-431-0958 or stop by and see Ken. We live at 1690 Larson in Helena.
Ken's email is: ken_i_m@bozemanlug.org
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My Brother Ken
Kenneth Dyke passed away this morning October 29, 2007 at 4:17am.
Though we were not exceptionally close, he was my brother.
The last time I spoke with him, I was up in Washington at our Mothers house. I had travelled from California to meet my 10-yo daughter for the first time. We stayed up from about 10pm until 3am, talking about computers; I own an internet cafe in Twentynine Palms, CA. We also talked about the past, present and future.
It was a great time to be able to talk with him and garner some of his knowledge and expertise he has learned over the years. Please keep him in your thoughts, and pray for my mother, for Judy, our remaining brothers, and the rest of the family.
Brian