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Thread #57664   Message #910495
Posted By: Art Thieme
15-Mar-03 - 12:57 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Buzz Potter--hobo poet (1937-2003)
Subject: RE: Obit: BUZZ POTTER--hobo poet
Here is part of the obit/article from Buzz Potter's home town newspaper. Thanks to Ron Miles for forwarding it on to me.

EDWIN C. POTTER

NISSWA MINNESOTA---Edwin "Buzz" C. Potter. 65, died Sunday, March 9th, 2003, at home

He was born Dec. 9, 1937. He was a business entrepreneur from gold-mining to dredging and most recently as a mortgage banker. He was a journalist, poet and storyteller. His original poems are included in print and on a spoken word CD entitled "POEMS OF THE HOBO ROAD". His poetry has been featured by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac". He was the subject of television news stories and numerous magazine and news articles. He helped establish and served as the editor of "The Hobo Times" magazine in 1993 and was president of the National Hobo Association (NSA)...

An Irish wake will be held at a later date.

Art Thieme