A friend alerted me to this fact and I found this post in the Stratics Player Memorial Forum...

The Stratics Staff received this poignant email announcing the passing of one of our long time community members in UO. We have the sad news that Goodman, founder of www.uoGoodman.com has passed away.

Here is the email we received from his son (edited for the sender's security):

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to whom it may concern,

i dont know if this mail will be posted or read, or if anyone will care.... my father was the original Goodman, he started in the atlantic shard, i was there when he made his character. i am his real life son. he later came to develop what is known as his "Goodmans rune library". he was the original owner of www.uoGoodman.com. my father was so proud of his accomplishments for the game.... he truely felt a sense of pride whilest playing. he made many friends, which he has kept with him.

my father, of real life, has passed away on august 30th 2005. i hope his memory and good deeds will be remembered by all of yall....he was a touching man in uo and in life. always up for helping and improving...
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i hope that uo.com uovault.com and uostratics.com could by some way post this message and allow the community to know.... it would have meant a great deal to my father ...

thank you so much,
curtis

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UOGoodman (as you can see on the website) ran huge rune libraries that were known by most on his shard, Atlantic.

He will be sorely missed and the UOF staff send out their condolences to his family and friends.

Uggh... this is not good news. I have friends on Atl who were very active in helping Goodman out with his libraries and became very close to him. *thoughts go out to his family and friends*

And Thrad.. put his name in the title.. scared the bejeezus out of me.. thought it was somebody else near and dear to us and my heart leapt to my throat. Don't scare me like that Gal! ;) (not that Goodman's passing is any less important of course)

And ruin my lure to get people to read my news stories? lol

Rattling your little brains is good in the morning...

I never met Goodman..but I heard a great deal about him. I'm sure there will be many who miss him.

I thought you were talking Kimi as well. Regardless, my prayers go out to Goodman's family.

I never met Goodman either, but we've always used his library. I wonder if Atlantic will do something for him.

You're an evil, evil woman, Thrad! *hugs*

Nah.. seriously.. I jumped because Kimi is in surgeory now as we speak.. and even the most routine procedures on the brain have a high mortality rate.

Ive never even played on Atlantic and Ive heard of this guy...

Im sure he will be sorely missed by all, my condolences to all who knew him.

My thoughts go out to the family. Its seems a bad bit of time the good folk of the world are going through.

I got an ICQ that there's going to be a vigil either tonite or tomorrow night for Goodman at his main library. Details are going to be posted on the Atlantic shard forum on Stratics later today.

Wow his library was the main place to go when I started playing on atlantic. Still have runes to all his different places. My heart goes out the his family and friends cause I know he must have been a good man

Okay I guess I'll check Stratics later.