Victor Henzi

Still thinking of you. Love you my friend.

I am so grateful for all the memories we shared and thinking of them especially today.

It´s been 10 yrs since we last spoke and think about you all the time. Love and Miss You!

I often wonder what your take on world events would be. I miss many things about you, but speaking to you (more specifically, hearing your thoughts) is what I think I miss the most. I am grateful that you were a part of my life.

Happy birthday. Miss you.

Victor was a fantastic mentor to me at the Fremeau molecular biology lab at Duke University in the early 1990s. I remember him saying that he wished he could remain his current age (26) forever. I remember asking him why not pick something a little younger? He said, "No, this is perfect."

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Happy birthday Vic. Miss you.

Thinking of you my friend.. Wish we could spend some time together....

I still wish that I could talk to you again. You are deeply missed.

Miss laughing with you my friend

You mattered, Victor, and I am glad you were with us for as long as you could stay.

Thinking about you.

Miss you very much my friend.

Hard to believe that it has been 5 years.

Can't stop wishing I could have talked to you. That I could talk to you now.

We were throwing time away.

Uncle Mario & Aunt Carol

Annegret und Ewald Stuttgart

Today is your birthday. You are missed a great deal amn.

Kutulu

I truly loved you. Still missing you every day.

Uncle Mario & Aunt Carol

Annegret and Ewald,Stuttgart

Thinking about the fun times we shared.

Annegret and Ewald, Stuttgart

Remembering you.

Miss you my friend!!!

Annegret and Ewald

I miss laughing with you about all the dumb things in the world.

Annegret and Ewald, Stuttgart

love you Victor... I will miss you...

I remember Victor very well when I was a graduate student at Illinois and he worked in the lab with me. Happy and smiling, very bright, passionate about things he cared about, he was a standout human. The world was better that he was in it. Shocked and sad to hear he is gone, and so soon.

I am greatly saddened to hear of Victor's passing. Victor was a truly exceptional student in my classes and an undergraduate researcher in my laboratory at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute. He was one of a very small and select number of undergraduate students who carried out, wrote up, and published, essentially on his own, a very important and now widely quoted study on the neural and pharmachologic determination of aversion based- learning. I am not surprised to hear of the wonderful accomplishments made by Victor after leaving the University of Illinois.

I am very sorry to hear about Victor's passing. We met as undergrads at UIUC where we were dorm mates at Allen Hall and lab mates in Mike Gabriel's laboratory. Victor had one of the sharpest minds and quickest wits of anyone I have known. He was a great friend in lab and kept everyone on their toes. We had many spirited conversations that ranged from science to politics. I was sorry to see him leave the field, but am happy to see that he found success in life. Victor will be missed.

The photo shows Gabriel's group in ~1988 in the Psychology building at UIUC (from L-R, Mike Gabriel, Victor Henzi, Steve Maren, unknown, Yasuo Kubota, Amy Poremba, and Eunjoo Kang).

I worked with Victor as outside patent counsel for his prior employer. I always enjoyed my relationship with him and am sorry to learn of his passing.

--Michael B. Stewart

Thinking of you and missing you ALOT!! I lit this candle to make the both of us laugh!

I worked with Victor at the Secular Party of America. He was brilliant - intelligent, perceptive, articulate, and shrewd, and also funny, compassionate, and kind. I am lucky to have known him and so very sorry to learn he is gone.

Farewell my friend.

I knew Victor in college at Allen Hall. We were good friends and we would often study in a group together. At lunch one day, the belt around my sweater broke in two and Victor thought it was hilarious. He kept repeating what had happened and couldn't make it through the story without cracking up each time. To this day, that moment in time still makes me laugh too. When I moved out of Allen Hall, I walked past it for a class each day at the same time. Victor would be at a window and he would holler a greeting or a quip to me and I would shout some joke back to him and we would both laugh.

I am very sorry to hear about his passing.

Donna

Thinking of you.

I will miss you and all the great discussions we had – the typical German–US discussions and the not so typical but even more interesting ones.

Victor - Thank you for being a great part of my 2003 internship with Bosch in Chicago – which was one of the best times of my life. The shirt was joke – I recognized it the first time when I was reviewing the 2003 picture to look for one of you and me – but I think it is so typical you.

Victor enjoyed hiking or going for walks. I wish we could take one more long walk together.

missing you, Victor.

Dearest Al and Savaria
Our deepest sympathies to you and your family in the loss of your dear son. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
God Bless Joe and Avril

Victor thank you for your smiles, laughter, and sharing your travel stories with me. I can still hear you laughing at the man dressed as a taco at a quirky football game. I enjoyed your sense of humor and honesty. My heart saddened when the notice was posted at Bosch. It feels so surreal...we will miss you. You will always live in our hearts....I will never forget you.

I am very sorry for your loss - please accept my condolences. I worked with Victor at Robert Bosch and he was always so helpful, kind and you could count on him to get a job done - and - the right way. - June Montgomery

Dear Al and Sylvia,
Please accept our most heartfelt sympathies for your loss...our thoughts are with you and your family during this difficult time.

Forest View Walking Group

Dear Al and Sylvia So sorry for your loss,may you be comforted by the many warm thoughts of those who care keck and clara

Victor was always generous with his support and his time. I treasure the years we spent together having our Friday lunch at the Chinese restaurant (I preferred hot and sour soup, he preferred egg drop soup).

It was through Victor that Cristina and I met Tanja. It brought us so much joy to have Victor and Tanja at our wedding.

I miss him.

Dear Al and Sylvia, All of our prayers are with you and Al. Hopefully in some time you can move on and time will bring less pain. Your friends Barbara and Charlie Loy

Dear Al and Sylvia no parent should have to go through this,please know that he is at peace, our sincere sympathy, Rose and Rich Martens

Victor, your energy, originality, innovative spirit and straight talk are unforgettable and will forever be inspiring and deeply appreciated. Rest well.

Jim and I are so very sorry about your loss, Al and Saveria. Your son was a great person, and we are sure you were very proud of him. Much love, Joan and Jim Cassin

Thank you for your laughter, your thoughts, your hospitality, for encouraging me during that run on a cold day before my first half...for everything that was you, but most of all for being my best friend's best friend. you will be missed.

Victor, we can't believe you have left us. We will always hold you dear to our hearts. We love you so much and miss you! We wish we had more time together to share our thoughts. You will always be remembered. All our love!

Victor knowing you, I am sure you already started a discussion about your experience of traveling to the place you are, hope you found what you were looking for, good luck Victor.

I remember having a long conversation with you in Kusterdingen which meant a lot to me. Thank you.

Hey Victor, I wish we had more heated discussion (OK, arguments) ahead of us, it was always great to make contact with your prodigious intellect and to hear your take on things. Too bad we can't hang out on the phone or in person, but I still have your ideas, opinions, and laughter in my head. Rest well.

Victor's personal vision, clarity, and intelligence were remarkable. His smile was sunshine, his radiance at times, blinding. Rest in peace. And peace to those of us who miss him.

I was deeply saddened by the news of Victor's passing. Victor was a long time colleague at Bosch and will always be remembered for his devotion to his work and to his many friends. My heart felt condolences to your family.

Victor hat mich immer zum Lachen und zum Nachdenken gebracht.

To those who loved Victor, my heart goes out for the loss of a very special person. I am grateful to have met him - it was obvious to see that he cared deeply and had a delightful sense of humor. He touched lives, and now peace is his.

Victor had no filters. He had clear opinions and wasn't shy to express them. Victor, we will miss you.

My deepest condolences to all of his family and friends who are mourning his loss, you are in my thoughts and prayers. I admired Victor so much and felt honored to be his work colleague. He was smart, passionate, and took great pride in a job well done, which, in his case, always was a job well done. He was generous with his time and knowledge, and had a special knack for getting us out of the latest technical mess we found ourselves in. I appreciated his honesty and his willingness to listen when we challenged each other on topics as varied as patent law to the merits of antioxidants to questions of faith. I will miss him.

Vic, I have to say a few more things. What i'm gonna miss the most is your take on things. I loved your point of view. You rarely took the popular stance, instead choosing to rile and stir things up. Put a spin on it. Keeping it real. You helped me see all angles and to see things differently. We didn't always agree but we bonded because of that, and because we found the absurd in everything. And ran with it. Laughing for hours. We were laughing yesterday thinking about how you would enjoy the absurdity that it takes 3 hours to review the posting of a candle! Maybe they're checking to make sure it's bright enough? And can a candle get rejected?
You were fun, and always kept it interesting! That is why we became friends, and remained best friends for 20 years. I'm gonna miss talking to you on the phone til 4 in the morning about politics and pop culture and everything between. I'm gonna miss listening to KISS, and Jagged Little Pill, Fleetwood Mac, and Supertramp. I'm gonna miss your laugh and the pranks you used to play on me. I'm gonna miss our road trips, and the adventures we took in your junky little car that had "I heart Jesus" spray painted on the outside.
Your friendship meant the world to me and you made my life so much more interesting. I'm forever grateful we worked together at Allen Hall and decided to hang out that fall day back in '94!! A couple of skeptical smart aleck young dudes with bright ideas on how we were gonna conquer the world. I Love you my friend!!!

Lieber Victor,
so haben wir Dich kennengelernt -mit diesem unwiderstehlichen Lächeln- und so werden wir uns immer an Dich erinnern.
Hoffentlich hast Du das gefunden, was Du gesucht hast.