{"id":30835,"date":"2022-10-23T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30835"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:24:10","slug":"30835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30835","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ivey: A Celebration of Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim Ivey died on July 13, 2022, at the age of 97.\u00a0 Jim led an amazing life which <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can read about here<\/a>.\u00a0 On October 9, 2022, 25 of Jim&#8217;s friends came together to celebrate him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The photos above are of the front and back covers of a booklet that Charlie Moffitt put together.\u00a0 It contained photos, drawings and remembrances of Jim by many of his friends.\u00a0 Thanks to Charlie for putting the booklet together and also Mike Kott &amp; Sue Cornwell who paid for the printing costs so that everyone got a copy.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col3.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col4.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our celebration was at an Outback Steakhouse. Twenty-five of Jim&#8217;s friends attended. John Beatty wanted to, but his mother passed away two days prior.\u00a0 I printed a sheet of Jim Ivey caricatures for everyone.\u00a0 Jim liked to say if 100 artists drew the same person, the drawings would all be different, yet each would capture an aspect of the person.\u00a0 It reminded me that Jim had friendships with each of us, but like the caricatures, the relationships were all slightly different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was great seeing so many of Jim&#8217;s friends who were also friends with each other because of Jim.\u00a0 We shared a meal, and many wonderful memories.\u00a0 There was a lot of laughter and we kept things low key &#8211; just as Jim would have wanted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Kott shares a Jim Ivey story!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charlie shows Frank the proper way to hold a baby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone ignoring the waitress when the bill comes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cliff prepares to strangle Doralya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The All-American Boy (we might have to revisit that nickname) tells the story of Jim Ivey&#8217;s slow motion fall during a poker game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bill and Rob recreating the <em>Keep on Truckin&#8217;<\/em> pose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/>Rob found Joy&#8217;s homemade cookies&#8230; so did everyone else!\u00a0 Yummy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joy shares an art book that Jim gave her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cliff&#8217;s smile means something is up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wild Bill Black and me&#8230; it looks like my hair had a stroke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Jim was approaching his mid-80s, he sent me a letter that contained the full page below.\u00a0 Jim came up with advice for himself\u00a0 since he was over 80. I always thought it contained great advice for any age, so I made a copy for everyone attending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim will be missed, but never forgotten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col21.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102322jbi_col21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"662\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Ivey died on July 13, 2022, at the age of 97.\u00a0 Jim led an amazing life which you can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,61,56,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-comics","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30835"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30845,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions\/30845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}