Clark Goble – blogging for the past while at Times & Seasons, an occasional commenter at Keepa, a familiar participant elsewhere in the Bloggernacle for years – has passed away unexpectedly, leaving a wife and five young children.
Should you be able to contribute to a fund to help meet his family’s immediate needs, a GoFundMe memorial has been set up here.
Times and place of funeral events are publicly available at Clark’s Facebook page.
Godspeed, Clark. We’ll miss you.
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Thanks for this, Ardis.
I’m very sorry to hear that. I remember him as an active and thoughtful participant in the Eyring-L mailing list back in the last century.
I always enjoyed his commentary – he was thoughtful and not prone to jumping to ideologically driven conclusions. He thought things through carefully, and I loved seeing a comment from him.
I never met him, and never even really interacted with him. But I feel like he has been a role model to me, of faithful engagement of the intellect, civil and respectful discourse online, and of passionate and faithful curiosity about the world.
We are impoverished by his absence.
He was one of the earliest participants on Latter-day Saint sites on the Internet. Yesterday I saw an email message from him on Mormon-l from 1994! So he was active online in LDS forums for half of his life.
Influence is often not a single stunning event. More often it is consistent and continuing effort. Clark represents that.
This is heartbreaking. Thanks for letting us know.
He also was one of the founders of Amano chocolates and I think of him every time I see the product in my local store.
https://www.mormonwiki.com/Clark_Goble:_Mormon_Physicist
Just read this tender story about how his choice to be a donor (and his wife’s choice to keep him alive on life support to honor that choice) has already blessed another person’s life.
https://www.facebook.com/eric.d.green.7/posts/10212866339847029
Thank you for those links, Michelle.
I was talking to my brother, who was unfamiliar with Clark, and finished my short verbal bio with something like “I never saw him be sarcastic or snarky with anyone online, ever.”
“Wow. That’s extremely rare and high praise.”
“…. yeah, I guess it is.”