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it is fitting that a man who loved life so greatly as did Lloyd V. Bridges should step out of it swiftly and without pain. Despite the fact that he was a busy businessman, he found time to be a great and gracious host in his own home, and a more than generous one. He could not be called a bon vivant, which implies a degree of irresponsibility, for an irresponsible per son could not have achieved his eminence in the busi ness-world. Lloyd Bridges was not always a man of affluence, and in his younger days was well acquainted with hard, physical work. It was partly this experience which served him so well in later years, when he was able to enjoy the outdoors and the sports which he followed with enthusiasm and in sound health until he sudden oblivion which overcame him. He was an ardent and skilled fisherman and a devotee of other outdoor sports, especially baseball. In the latter category, he was one of the main sup porters of the Humboldt Crabs baseball teams, at their brightest days and through their dark est. Mr. Bridges was litle changed by his business successes, and remained a quiet, soft-spoken and un boastful man until the end. He took the national em inence of his actor son, Lloyd Bridges Jr, with the understandable pride that any father would carry, but even in this excusable aspect he was no braggart. His business life he kept largely private despite his active public life—a feat not many men have been able, or even desirous, of achieving. Sympathy, naturally, goes to the bereaved family and close friends. But there is, somehow, a note of almost another personal triumph in the manner of his passing—a swift end that left visions of the rivers, the ballparks and the other sports arena fresh and clear in his mind--a vanishing from the throng withe out the lingering illnesses, the physical pains, discom forts and incapaivity of old age. At 75 years, (Tuesday was his birthday) Lloyd. Bridges Sr, was still not an old man, and the swift, merciful end could well be the finest birthday present he could have received. ay
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Eureka Humboldt Standard
Eureka, California, US
Wed, May 02, 1962
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