{"id":819,"date":"2012-02-23T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=819"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T17:46:03","slug":"jack-crandall-m-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Jack Crandall, M.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

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My friend Jack passed today.<\/p>\n

I can’t remember when I first met Jack, but it was probably 15 years ago.\u00a0 He quickly became part of my extended family.<\/p>\n

Jack loved music, and big band, jazz and blues were probably his favorites.\u00a0 He made me dozen mix tapes over the years.\u00a0 The song posted above was on one of those tapes.\u00a0\u00a0 I have pages of his hand-written notes wherein he shares his knowledge and history of the various artists on these tapes.\u00a0 I think one of his favorites was Count Basie.\u00a0 One Christmas I gave him a book on the early blues and the following year I received a blues mix tape.<\/p>\n

Jack spent most of his life in Aspen, Colorado.\u00a0 He was the town doctor back before Aspen became the glitzy community for the super rich.\u00a0\u00a0 He made housecalls in his jeep and delivered babies, including his daughter. He built his house<\/a> and the commercial building<\/a> that housed his practice, both of which were designed by Tom Benton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After he retired from medical practice, he continued to manage the commercial building\u00a0 (now re-named The Crandall Building).\u00a0\u00a0 His office located in the basement boiler room was his man-cave<\/em> and it was a treat to see Jack’s other side.<\/p>\n

Jack was the epitome of “easy going.”\u00a0 He never let stuff bother him very deeply.\u00a0 If it was something out of his immediate control, he didn’t spend much time dwelling on it.\u00a0 He was extremely easy to talk to.<\/p>\n

Several times a week, he would go to the Weinerstube for coffee and breakfast and join the Stammtisch<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0 I joined him on a dozen occasions and met some of the old-time colorful characters behind Aspen.<\/p>\n

Jack had been living with cancer for years now and he’s been a real trouper — another thing he didn’t let bother him deeply.<\/p>\n

He passed very peacefully with his immediate family at his bedside.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, Jack.\u00a0 My life is better for knowing you.<\/p>\n

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Gesine and Jack Crandall on Jack's birthday Sept 22, 2002.<\/p><\/div>\n

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