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   Message 136,527 of 137,311   
   Gary McGath to Keith F. Lynch   
   Re: RIP Tony Lewis   
   14 Feb 25 09:47:42   
   
   From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 2/13/25 5:36 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > Gary McGath  wrote:   
   >> It's been reported on File 770 and elsewhere that Tony Lewis has died.   
   >> If he'd lived just a few days more and been healthy enough to travel   
   >> locally, he could have added another Boskone to his perfect record of   
   >> attending them all since the beginning.   
   >   
   > Starting in 1941?  How old was he?   
      
   I'm counting only the current Boskone series run by BoSFS and later   
   NESFA, not the earlier set of cons by the same name run by a different   
   group. The present series started in 1965.   
      
   1941 was the year Tony was born, making him 83 or 84 at the time of his   
   death.   
      
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