Jerry Spears, W9PB 2021

From K3SY – Jerry and I, along with our YLs, attended the same church. Alt-hough I knew Jerry was facing health challenges, when it was announced on Sun-day, July11th that he had passed away overnight, it was a bitter pill to swallow. Jerry was one of the “good guys”. We miss you, Jerry. 73, San

From W4JS – I knew Jerry was down with cancer, but I definitely wasn’t ready for this. It truly broke my heart, for I felt close to Jerry through our mutual love of New Mexico and Arizona. However, there is something prophetic about Jerry’s and my interactions in recent months. Jerry had offered to perk up my IC-730, which had been my first solid state radio and faithful performer stateside as well as in Jordan and Indonesia. So he worked on it and claimed it was better than new. I delayed going to his place to pick it up so he brought it to Al’s radio cottage on the day Al and I were going to the memorial service for Bob-N1RA at the National Cemetery in Sarasota. Jerry was in a happy mood as he and Diana had been to the Arcadia Rodeo and he really was excited about the facility, the event, and the people there. Looking back, perhaps he knew we would not meet again. Via Con Dios Mi Compadre. 73, Jack

From K4EU – I, too, am very sad to hear of Jerry‟s passing. Jerry also had a va-cation house in Kentucky, and we had many conversations related to our mutual love for the Bluegrass Commonwealth. Jerry was a CW op and that also struck a mutual cord of conversations between us. He will be greatly missed. 73, Steve