Current Issue - Just For Openers

J U S T FOR OPENERS OCT 2 013 - JAN 2014 ISSU E #138PAGE 2JFO Member’s UpdateOur thoughts and prayers go out to all of the families below who have lost a loved one.On July 28th, Janet Sudduth, wife of JFO member Bob (#991) passed away at the age of 73. She had been in declininghealth the last couple of years. Bob and Janet attended the 25th JFO Convention in St. Louis in 2003.On November 7th, Pat Summers, wife of JFO member Stan (#375) passed away at the age of 83. She attended severalJFO Conventions with Stan and was the complimentary person to Stan’s joking side. She was a gracious host at theirhouse when the JFO Convention was in Detroit in 2009.On December 11th we lost John Patton (#776) at the age of 88. John had one stroke and after a second one wentdownhill quickly. John attended a couple of JFO Conventions in the late 1990s. He was an avid collector of E-14s, B-24s, G-1s and soda openers. He was also an avid mail trader.On January 17th one of our original members, Don Sherman (#18), passed away at his home. Don attended manyJFO Conventions and only after Parkinson’s disease progressed did he stop coming. He was a big collector of beeradvertising “A”s and “B”s and at one time collected all beer advertising openers before settling on those two categories.He had several other areas of collections including corkscrews, CBOs and kitchen ware. Don was one of the bigearly traders in JFO and as long as he got something in equal value he would usually trade with you.On January 27, Laverne Vollrath, wife of JFO member Verne (#162) passed away at the age of 86. She had been indeclining health for several years. Laverne was always at Verne’s side at many JFO Conventions and numerous otherbeer advertising shows.One late passing to report is the passing of Robert Behrends (#1000) due to cancer on December 16, 2012. He was ageneral opener collector.Another JFO member, Marianne Kircher (#1142), of Ft. Myers, FL passed away last fall. Her son tells me she was avoracious collector of all kinds of openers. She was planning on attending this year’s JFO Convention.On a much brighter note, Art Santen (#158), turned 80 on November 12th. His family had a big surprise birthdayparty for him and wanted any JFO members interested to attend in St. Louis. I do not know if anyone else made it butwe do know Art made it to 80 and will be at the JFO Convention next month. He is the only member to have attendedall previous 35 conventions. He said to pass along for you to BE THERE!!!Some interesting eBay items: Left: A match cover from the “Bottle Opener Tavern” in St. Louis, Mo.Does Art Santen have any information on this place? Middle: M-47 an “unofficial” beer advertisingopener. Walter Petelle is a not a brewery name so he could have been a bottler, bar owner or beerdistributor. Right: John Cartwright noticed this business card on eBay as an opener does exist fromSeal Rock Bottling and with the Wunder Brewing connection would make the Handbook as a listing.