My Old Freind, The Late Jon Gluck

[longseeker]

good day to all

I am not that familiar with blogs and foriums. I am not that literate when it comes to computers in general and that is why I some how lost contact with my old friend Jon Gluck. I last got an email in 2006 and was considering a visit and he was telling me how great it was over there and he would show me around. I later tried to email and it came back. Just yesterday I googled his name and was led to this forium and read of his passing. I knew him in Seattle just after he had a fishing acident in Alaska. We were friends for 5 or 6 years we had a small jewelry business together. I taught him the basics of jewelry making and business. We would go to the flee markets and thrift stores and that is how he began to buy and sell watches. He was a man of energy and inteligence. He had a sence of humor and was able to comunicat and establish raport with almost any type of person.

He followed his dream, which was to get out of the rat race and go to asia. I noticed that some people were trying to establish contact with his family. I knew (by phone) his father who was retired in Florida but I am sure he has passed away by now. I to would like to contact his family.

I also would like to contact those over there who knew him. I am so sad that I will not get to see him again. He was not a letter writer. He was a here and now kind of guy who had a talent for living. I would like to know about his life there and get some stories. How was he in his last years? What were his dreams at the last. [Please send PM]

I hope this reaches those who knew him please feel free to pass on my email. I still want to visit Chang mei. Perhaps some day befor I die.

Davd Bromling

Edited June 18, 2008 by PeaceBlondie
Eliminate email -not permitted on these forums.

[Ulysses G.]

John was a great guy and I miss him already.

I remember when he first fell in love with his wife and he pretty much persued her to the ends of the Earth before she finally gave in and they seemed to live happily ever after.

He had a friend named Simon who has been in Chiang Mai forever, who would know exactly what he has been up to the last few years. He used to be a regular on Thai Visa, but I'm not sure of what he calls himself these days.

Maybe someone knows how to get ahold of him?

[BenSchrenzel]

David,

I've never participated in a blog, so I don't really know how this works. I came upon your note about Jon by accident, looking for traces of him. Jon was my friend since 7th grade. We drifted in and out of each other's lives the last several years, and last spoke with him about a month befire he died. His wife wrote an email note to me about a month after he died. I too share your impressions of him as a good, gentle and decent fellow, and I genuinely loved him.

It would be nice to talk with you. If you get this note, PM me. I live in Sequim.

Ben Schrenzel

Edited June 22, 2008 by Reimar
remove the phone number and e-mail address

[longseeker]

Dear Ben

I am so glad you responded to my entry. I knew Jon just after he came down from Alaska where he had been crab fishing. He had injured his back and would not be able to fish any more. He stayed in Seattle for several years and we became close friends. I am a jeweler and taught Jon the basics of jewelry and the jewelry business. We had a business together called Pacific Circle. He began to buy and sell and learn about watches. He always talked about getting away from the life in the US, we both did. But Jon did it. He considered several places. Belize and Costa Rica, he visited Jamaca but in the end he decided on Thailand. I used to talk with Jons father who lived in Florida when I needed to reach Jon but I am sure he has passed away long ago.

I came very close several times to visiting Jon in Thailand and I talked with him by phone several times when he came to the US but we were never able to make a connection for a visit. I enjoyed Jons company very much he was always involved in something interesting such as teaching himself the watch business. He could socialize with a great variety of people.

Somehow Jon passing has moved me deeply. I feel I must know more about the years when we lost contact about his life in general. We talked about his life before and of a great many things in fact thats what Jon and I did most together was talk on and on. I have forgotten so much. Could you please send me a memorium for Jon. When you knew him at various time through the years what he was doing and what he was like in these periods. He spoke of a child by a first marriage. I knew his father by phone, do you know anything about his last years? How was he the last months?

I hope this doesn't put you off as to much to ask. I now live in Pullman Wa. and when you say Sequim I presum you are on the peninsula. Did you know him whe he was in Port Townsend? My email is [email protected] Thank you for any thing you can send.

David,

I've never participated in a blog, so I don't really know how this works. I came upon your note about Jon by accident, looking for traces of him. Jon was my friend since 7th grade. We drifted in and out of each other's lives the last several years, and last spoke with him about a month befire he died. His wife wrote an email note to me about a month after he died. I too share your impressions of him as a good, gentle and decent fellow, and I genuinely loved him.

It would be nice to talk with you. If you get this note, PM me. I live in Sequim.

Ben Schrenzel