R.I.P. Richard "the skunk" Fordunski

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Many of you knew or corresponded with Rich over the years.

Rich was admitted to a nursing home under skilled care and then transferred to hospice.

He passed away last Saturday morning.

There will be no service. We are doing what we can to honor his last wishes. Just thought some of you would like to know.
 
I did not know him, but upon suffering loss through the deaths of friends or relatives, I am often comforted by two thoughts. Jesus spoke of his going before us to prepare a place for us. I believe that everyone does something similar after they die. I never went anywhere that someone had not gone ahead and squared things away for me in one manner or another. Second, while the earthly circle may have grown smaller, the celestial realm has increased again, and they both remain intact. There's an old song about it:

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

There are loved ones in the glory
Whose dear forms you often miss.
When you close your earthly story,
Will you join them in their bliss?
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Is a better home awaiting
In the sky, in the sky?

In the joyous days of childhood
Oft they told of wondrous love
Pointed to the dying Saviour;
Now they dwell with Him above.
You remember songs of heaven
Which you sang with childish voice.
Do you love the hymns they taught you,
Or are songs of earth your choice?
You can picture happy gath'rings
Round the fireside long ago,
And you think of tearful partings
When they left you here below.
One by one their seats were emptied.
One by one they went away.
Now the family is parted.
Will it be complete one day?


Sorry for everyone's loss.
 
Many of you knew or corresponded with Rich over the years.

Rich was admitted to a nursing home under skilled care and then transferred to hospice.

He passed away last Saturday morning.

There will be no service. We are doing what we can to honor his last wishes. Just thought some of you would like to know.
John,
Thanks for the post,
Sad news,
I really liked Rich
 
Many of you knew or corresponded with Rich over the years.

Rich was admitted to a nursing home under skilled care and then transferred to hospice.

He passed away last Saturday morning.

There will be no service. We are doing what we can to honor his last wishes. Just thought some of you would like to know.
Sad to hear the news. Please tell us about Richard "the skunk" Fordunski for those of us that did not have the pleasure of meeting or know him. Where’s he from, how did get an unforgettable nickname? Or anything else about him.
 
Sad to hear the news. Please tell us about Richard "the skunk" Fordunski for those of us that did not have the pleasure of meeting or know him. Where’s he from, how did get an unforgettable nickname? Or anything else about him.
Rich was from Ohio originally, I think. I met him when he worked at Loree Jon's Pool Tables Plus in Greenville, SC over 20 years ago. I think before that he managed a pool room in Greenville for a number of years. He was married and his wife passed away several years ago now. I met her, seemed like a nice lady. I don't think he was the same after she died. He took it hard. He could aquire cues and cases from several different sources and got me a nice Porper which I still use today. The one bad habit that he had, if he thought he could get more money than you gave him for a cue, he was liable to start bugging you to sell said cue back to him. He did this to me, sold me an Andy Gilbert four pointer and a week after I bought it he was calling me telling me he didn't have anything to play with, etc. This went on for MONTHS! My wife was so put off by this she refused to speak to him after this. I finally did sell the cue back to him and it was gone in less than a week, to a truck driver from out of state. He did this with a lot of people, I'm afraid. I understand he played a pretty good game of One Pocket, though I never saw him play. Unfortunately, he insulted me around Christmas quite a few years back and we were never the same after that. I would run into him in different rooms from time to thiem, he was there to buy or sell cues. Kinda wish I could have made it up with him now. He wasn't a bad guy but the pursued the all-mighty $ a bit too hard, I think. He was down on his luck down in Florida and near homeless a few times, I think. That's about all I've got.
Edit: He got the skunk name because of a streak of white hair in the middle of his brown hair.
 
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