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Thank you for the kind words. He was a nice guy and immensely talented. This doesn't change anything about the way I remember him. He's still the same old friend he always was. It's just strange. But It gets weirder.
A family member who is big into genealogy did some digging, and it turns out when he turned 21 he legally changed his name from William Smith to the John Jones name we had all known him by. We are guessing there was a mix up at the funeral home when they did the death certificate and they put his birth name on the death certificate and sent the death notice to the newspaper. An identical obit the next day in the Texas town where John and his wife lived called him John, as did the local obit.
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