Mike Hazard—Barbara Friberg was my good neighbor at Lowertown Lofts Artists Cooperative. Her smile was, will always be a blessing. She passed away on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 after a long struggle with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
lowertown.info—Longtime Lowertown Lofts Artists Cooperative resident and Lowertown community member Allison Hoogervorst passed away in an apparent accident in the first week of October at her home in Desert Hot Springs, California, on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, where she had been living for the last several years. No memorial event has been announced yet. A group of Allison’s family members, friends, and neighbors are collecting written recollections and photos of Allison through the years. Please submit your memories.
Richard “Dick” Kelly, owner of the now-shuttered Kelly’s Depot Bar for almost 30 years, passed away on July 12, 2019 at his home at the age of 76. In this feature, we remember Dick, and enclose an article written about him and his wife Jean in 2017, as well as copies of the memorial booklet and program from the visitation and mass that took place on July 19, 2019, at the Church of St. Joseph, in West St. Paul, Minnesota.
