RIP Jan Kemp

[deskslave]

A significant figure in the history of Georgia and NCAA athletics. Complications of Alzheimer's at 59. Wow.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/obits/stories/2008/12/07/Jan_Kemp_obituary.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

 

[forever_town]

Oh my God. My grandmother and great aunt both have some form of dementia, possibly Alzheimers. One is 86; the other is 84.

But 59? Ouch. What a terrible way to go, and at such a young age.

RIP.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

There really should be a movie made about Kemp's story. Talk about your voice crying in the wilderness.

 

[slappy4428]

There really should be a movie made about Kemp's story. Talk about your voice crying in the wilderness.

On Lifetime... not that it shouldnt be on ESPN

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

There really should be a movie made about Kemp's story. Talk about your voice crying in the wilderness.

On Lifetime... not that it shouldnt be on ESPN

ESPN would **** it up.

EDIT: I'm glad the AJC didn't have comments enabled on her obit.

 

[playthrough]

I thought of that too, Mr. Coffee. Comments from the UGA boosters would have been ugly. Guest book, with screened comments, is a better touch.

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

There really should be a movie made about Kemp's story. Talk about your voice crying in the wilderness.

On Lifetime... not that it shouldnt be on ESPN

ESPN would **** it up.

EDIT: I'm glad the AJC didn't have comments enabled on her obit.

Seeing how a mere online column of the week's picks over there almost always devolves into a racist, hate-filled, pig-ignorant flamewar, I'll have to agree.

Voice in the wilderness. Sadly, she still is.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I loved it several years later when UGa came out with a football or basketballl media guide with a classroom setting on the cover, trumpeting its players as true student-athletes, and Georgia Tech pointed out the mathmatical equation on the blackboard was incorrect ...

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

I loved it several years later when UGa came out with a football or basketballl media guide with a classroom setting on the cover, trumpeting its players as true student-athletes, and Georgia Tech pointed out the mathmatical equation on the blackboard was incorrect ...

My response to that would have to be

 

[trifectarich]

Oh my God. My grandmother and great aunt both have some form of dementia, possibly Alzheimers. One is 86; the other is 84.

But 59? Ouch. What a terrible way to go, and at such a young age.

RIP.

Agreed. I'm shocked to read of the cause of death.

I know what the statistics say when an elderly person, in their 70s or 80s, falls and breaks a hip, but I wouldn't have expected this from someone who's 59.

 

[Blitz]

Rest in peace, brave one.
We've lost a good person in Jan Kemp.