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Norman Coliver

San Francisco, California

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Norman Coliver

Norman Coliver, born in Baltimore, died at home in San Francisco on June 1st. He would have been 98 in 18 days. The day before he was reading and eating dessert, two of his great joys. He will be remembered as a real character, a true iconoclast. He was high school class...

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Major Coliver. "Normy". Two names I never knew for my late Uncle Norman, who produced two extraordinary (truly off the charts) women Susie and Sandy, with amazing wife Edith. Thank you for these legendary photos and the Mount Rushmore tributes to other great men in our female-dominated family.

Norman , you´re loved & missed . I was blessed to be part of your Journey towards the end . You slipped away peacefully today , June 1st. 2016

Dad with his brother Jonas, then a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, in 1945.

Dad, 1945, when he was a Major in the Pacific Theater, serving under General MacArthur

Dad out for a stroll, December 2010.

With Dad, acting silly on my birthday, April 13, 2008

Susie and I took Dad to Asilomar, on the Monterey Peninsula, for his 90th birthday, June 19, 2008.

Dad in front of the Concordia Club, May 12, 2010. Looking dapper indeed at (almost) 92!

Dad would have been 104 years old today. We think of him often. We are so profoundly grateful for all that we learned from him, for all the experiences to which he exposed us, and for the wonderful people who came into our lives because of him. These include his amazing caregivers: Tema, Joe and Caroline. Today, Father´s Day, we think especially about the other pater familias whom we´ve lost in the past 18 months: Hal Stein passed on May 31st this year, at the age of 90, one day before the...