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Originally Posted by jdull99
A poetic "tragedy" I never saw ONE big story on Gary's passing...(I can't even get that Obit link to come up with anything...)
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There wasn't an obituary as such, just a date of birth and death, but no details. In one of his last postings on Facebook, he had said that he was going to Florida to live with a nephew. He gave the impression that his financial resources were limited, and that he was in poor physical condition. All those columns he wrote for NSSN and other auto racing papers apparently didn't produce a financial windfall.
I don't remember seeing anything about his passing in the Speedsport magazine. The first I knew of it was the mention in the Bruce Ellis column in Sprint Car and Midget magazine. I had read comments from Gary that gave the impression that he did not have a very good relationship with the new Speedsport magazine people.