Hi Bill, I remember Tommy well. The Austin Statesman has his obituary
online. He and John Kreidler accompanied Bill as teenagers on that first
exploratory trip to Huautla. They left from my house.
This is not for the caver obituary, but just about Tommy. He was a bit of a
flower child. Once he showed up at our house early Saturday a.m. and I
asked him if he had had breakfast. He said he had already breakfasted on
wisteria blossoms. I think we persuaded him to have bacon and eggs.
Again, not for the caver memorial-- Bill was on one cave trip with him
where a bunch of people at night were sleeping packed into the back if a
pickup, or maybe it was a tent? All of a sudden Tommy began thrashing
around wildly and yelling, Mother! Mother! They're killing me! And crawled
over everyone else to pop out into the open. He was having a nightmare. I
don't know if they made him sleep outside after that.
Maybe the Statesman memorial has more info you can use.
It's good of you to do this.
Carol
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 12:15 PM William R. Elliott
wrote:
> Dear Texas Cavers,
>
> I hope you had a nice July 4. I am passing along some information on 5
> cavers who passed away between 2013 and 2022.
>
> I don't have enough information yet to write the usual full caver
> obituaries, which we like to post on *The Hall of Texas and Mexico Cavers*.
> So, I am placing pdfs of preliminary notices and obituaries for them on
> Dropbox at this link:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/axgptsctuckkuv4/AADi3TO5E_4H8lQS0wKtlRPka?dl=0
>
> Here's a list of the departed, and I will follow up later with more
> details on the website.
>
> Chip Carney, March 10, 1942 - August 14, 2013, age 71 (a "lost caver"
> until recently)
> Larry Williams, 1947- August 27, 2021, age 74
> Tommy McGarrigle, January 12, 1950 - August 24, 2021, age 71
> Dwight Deal,18 April 1938 - June 11, 2022, age 84
> Tom Rogers, April 9, 1970 - June 22, 2022, age 52
>
> If you have any tributes or good photos about some of these old friends,
> please send them to me. Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> *William R. (Bill) Elliott*
>
> 30105 Briarcrest Court
>
> Georgetown, Texas 78628
>
> *speodes...@gmail.com *
>
> 573-291-5093 cell
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