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1943
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2014
JOHN GARABEDIAN Obituary
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Doug Knott
October 6, 2022
I still feel a great affection for John. He was perhaps my best (and my wildest) friend my freshman year at Yale. Hiking around the campus with John was an adventure, and I enjoyed basking in his notoriety as well as our romps and conversation. I don't know if it is "said" in the Legacy, but John had a brilliant verbal mind that expanded to popular culture.
In the summer of 1962, I was hitchhiking around the country and stayed with John in K.C. for a few days. I visited the rug company of which he was very proud.
I remember a dinner at a famous stockyard restaurant and other adventures. John was a prodigy in the commercial "news"/ world, such as getting and holding the Newsweek job. I didn't see John much after college, but I imagine he got tired of the upper crust National news scene and retreated to his origins. He had a trace of a Missouri accent, yes? I had the pleasure of visiting K.C. in 2009 doing some art shows - it is an attractive and major city. If I'd been in touch with John I would have visited him again. Best to widow and family -- Doug Knott
Carol Sims
February 4, 2015
Thank you to everyone who shared kind words and found memories of John. Our family feel his loss every day.
John Garabedian 2013
Danna Garabedian
January 18, 2015
January 14, 2015
To friends/family of John's:
forgive me if this message is a duplicate, but I had the sense what I wrote might have been lost uploading, so here it is again. I just found out about John's passing -- very sad. I want people to know: John was one of the most creative verbal entertainers and raconteurs I've ever known. Way off the wall. We were very good friends and hung out constantly in a single year, freshman year at Yale, and John, particularly after he got early publication, came out with insightful but outrageous comments and what i would call "routines." He talked more wildly than I could dream, and I loved the "edge" and excitement that he inspired. He was a good buddy too, at least for that year. In 1962 I hitchhiked across the country and stayed with him in KC, and we had great adventures I remember, like the stockyards and Golden Ox, and scene at 18th & Vine - We drifted apart... I saw him last with the late Orde Coombes in NYC. I did know, after his amazing early journalism career, that he went back to KC - and I regret not contacting him when I've passed thru that most interesting city.
Charles Dillingham
October 25, 2014
I was a very good friend of John's at Yale, and in New York after graduation. I noticed his name among class members for whom Yale had no address, and one entry on Google turned up his obituary. I'm truly sorry not to have had an opportunity to get in contact with him. He was a truly wonderful man, and had a great influence on campus politics with his writing at the Yale Daily News and on the New Journalism with his reporting for Newsweek.
Charles Dillingham [email protected]
Jan Turner
October 13, 2014
Danna, Dana & all the family, we are so sorry for your loss. John was such a special man with such a great mind. Our prayers are with you all for God's comfort & peace. Love to all. Bob & Jan Turner
Doug & Barbara Cramer
October 12, 2014
Danna and family, so sorry for your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time.
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