A Truly Sad day for the TeXSives

[Cynthia]

Pathfinders Wife

To all of the XS11 family: I am truly touched by all of the beautiful things being said about David or as you all know him "Pathfinder". He did consider you all his family and he loved finally finding a group that he could be involved with. And as you all know his bike was indeed his pride and joy. I watched him tear down and rebuild that bike just about on his own. He got a lot of advice from you all and a lot of moral support and he loved it. He was so proud when he finished that bike. He said you see, you have no faith because when there was a thousand pieces of his bike laying in our garage, I told him he would probably never get it back together.

David was truly a wonderful man. When we met and starting dating in 1994, I told him he was my Knight in Shining Armour. I'm not sure how I will get through all of this, I never expected to lose my husband at the age of 51. I expected us to live a ripe old age together with all of the new updates and additions to our home. This has been a tremendous shock to us all. As some of you probably know, we recently added on an office onto our house for me. Greg did all of the electrical with David's help of course. (Thank you Greg!!)

Our daughter Adriana is doing ok, I don't think it's really hit her yet. Our son Joshua & daughter Shanna is not doing well at all. As for me, I have to try and be strong for our daughter but it sure is hard. Just last night I walked out of the back door to go to David's office to share something with him and suddenly realized he wasn't there. I miss him, I miss his beautiful laugh and smile.

Thank you all for for touching his life and making him so happy when he was riding with all of you (Sunday go to Church). It certainly made a difference in his life and it makes me so happy to know that he had such wonderful friends. It truly touches my heart. Cynthia Delzell

[MAXIMAN]

As usual I'm a week behind on news. When I read this I physically felt ill. Dave will sorely be missed. He was not only a fine man but one of the funniest guys I've ever been around. Dave was very charasmatic ...but in a very cool and laid back manner. I will never forget his smile and genuine laugh.

That is the true character of Dave. One word to sum him up would be "GENUINE". I saw absolutely no pretention in Dave at all. Dave was one of those rare few individuals that was truly WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). There's a hole in the world tonight.

I pray that Cindy and the kids will somehow...someway have this huge void in their lives filled with the love of God and the love of friends and fellow XSives.

Thanks Dave. I only knew you a couple days but it was a kick and I hope to see you at the big rally in the sky buddy. I'll be looking for you on a big beautiful Macho Maroon Standard!


Dave Delzell (R) and Hippie Dave(L) at TeXSive near Bandera. That's Hippie Dave's pristine silver standard and my near perfect red '79 SF - Zeus