Thank you Pioneer Square Friends and Neighbors of Seattle Soapworks for your condolences and support of Mike Sabo "Tio".
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Now I know why Mike didn't answer my e-mail several months ago. I found out today from a mutual friend that Mike had passed. We were lifelong friends, having lived across the hall from each other at Penn. After Penn, our paths first crossed again in Texas when I was in Air Force flight school and he was undergoing Air National Guard training. Through the years we stayed in touch--he even shared a house with me and several other crew members outside Travis AFB, CA for a time. What a hoot! Mike had a great talent for corporate finance and was never at a loss to have a new business deal to recommend. None of us roomates or the neighbors ever got rich but it was fun to watch him in action. He was also a good friend of my wife who he nicknamed "the child bride." He attended our wedding. Sometimes we'd go for more than two years without contact; when we finally did, we picked up the conversation easily--as if we'd left off just yesterday. That's the kind of guy Mike was. My most recent contact was re: Seattle Soap Works when he sent us a box of all the varieties. It was great stuff--much the same as what COSTCO now sells! I always wondered if Mike was producing private label for them. Never got around to asking, darn it! We have a boat load of memories of Mike Sabo and will alwayus treasure his warm friendship.
I was extremely saddened to stumble across the news of Mike Sabo's death. He was a childhood friend and classmate through high school. Though I heard rumors about him being in the Bay Area at the same time as me, our paths never crossed after 1959. For those who may not have seen it, I have posted the only memento I have of him, his high school yearbook entry from our senior year at http://www.flickr.com/photos/garysoup/4938746730. I am gratified to see from the photo on this website that the good-natured radiance never faded from his visage.
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Now I know why Mike didn't answer my e-mail several months ago. I found out today from a mutual friend that Mike had passed. We were lifelong friends, having lived across the hall from each other at Penn. After Penn, our paths first crossed again in Texas when I was in Air Force flight school and he was undergoing Air National Guard training. Through the years we stayed in touch--he even shared a house with me and several other crew members outside Travis AFB, CA for a time. What a hoot!
Mike had a great talent for corporate finance and was never at a loss to have a new business deal to recommend. None of us roomates or the neighbors ever got rich but it was fun to watch him in action. He was also a good friend of my wife who he nicknamed "the child bride." He attended our wedding.
Sometimes we'd go for more than two years without contact; when we finally did, we picked up the conversation easily--as if we'd left off just yesterday. That's the kind of guy Mike was.
My most recent contact was re: Seattle Soap Works when he sent us a box of all the varieties. It was great stuff--much the same as what COSTCO now sells! I always wondered if Mike was producing private label for them. Never got around to asking, darn it!
We have a boat load of memories of Mike Sabo and will alwayus treasure his warm friendship.
Bob Swaney
Newport News, VA
I was extremely saddened to stumble across the news of Mike Sabo's death. He was a childhood friend and classmate through high school. Though I heard rumors about him being in the Bay Area at the same time as me, our paths never crossed after 1959. For those who may not have seen it, I have posted the only memento I have of him, his high school yearbook entry from our senior year at http://www.flickr.com/photos/garysoup/4938746730. I am gratified to see from the photo on this website that the good-natured radiance never faded from his visage.
Gary Stevens
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