Donald Davidson Fredrickson III

Well Don, my friend, with your help I'm still clean and sober for almost too many years to count. Proof that the actions of a single person can have profound effects in the lives of others. In some ways, I wish I had never left Santa Cruz so I could have been around to help you during YOUR tough moments in life. The best I can do is try to be a good example and friend to someone else in need. I pray we'll meet again in the next phase of our existence. Tim

Although i did not know my dad for long, The 10 long years he spent in my life will never be forgotten, i love him and miss him every day.

Still thinking about you friend. I hope your spirit is in an awesome place!!

Don was calm, self-assured, confident, funny, respectful, conscientious, and truly caring of others. You really couldn't ask for a better friend. On more than one occasion, I saw Don sacrifice his own time and his own needs to help someone else in need. I can personally attest to this fact. If the world was filled with Dons, there would be no wars or famines. Even though I only knew him for a short 2 years or so, I still feel a sense of loss. I was actually trying to look him up via...

I just happen to do a Google search on Don and found that he had passed. Man did I well up with tears. I met Don at a recovery meeting back in the mid 80s. He became one of the best friends I've ever had. I've always been an underachiever and generally a failure. Don did he very best to bring the best of me out. He would tell me that I'm underestimating myself and that I should set more goals and take more risks. He lived by his own words. I never did. He loved life and was a bright star...

It's taken me a few years to do this, but I've needed all of this time to process the impact Don had on my life.
I met Don in 1990. He was working the door at the Edgewater, in Capitola Village. I was young, broke and lost! I was too arrogant to let him know just how desperate I was.he wasn't fazed by the likes of me. Don saw fit to rent me a room in his house (knowing I was pennyless). After a few weeks of avoiding Don, because a could not pay rent, he did the most amazing thing. When I...

I'm long gone from Got.Net. Worked there about 14 years ago now. It was my first job in the IT industry and the start of a fulfilling and lucrative career that continues today.

I just found out about Don's passing, and I was stunned. At first by the news (he was far too young), and then by the depth of sadness I felt. He was a good man as all of you know, but I honestly talked with him maybe a total of three times in the last decade. I asked myself, why is his passing affecting me...

I just found out that Don has passed. I'm shocked and taken aback.

Though I never spent a lot of time with Don, I felt like he was one of those kindred souls and spirits. I first met Don in the beginning when got.net started up and would come to speak with him from time to time over the ensuing years.

You will be missed Don....

Vernon Bohr...aka...VernonVernonVernon...Vcubed