JDC – Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 3rd, 2009
October 2nd is my father’s & my grandfather’s birthday, and October 3rd is my brother Jerry’s birthday. Quite a triad.
Jerry Dale is the youngest of three sons in my family of origin. It always seemed fitting that I would have three sons too. That my youngest would be born on the 3rd and that all three of my son’s birthdays would be in one month within 9 days, 3 x 3, of each other in February, of course, seemed triply appropriate.
As to the Brothers Coleman, they are Bill, Jerry, and that’s me, the oldest, holding the ball. My baby sister Susan is not shown. Click on the image for a larger version.
Jerry Dale Coleman was the first investigator to talk to Ruth and Marlon Lowe about the Thunderbird abduction. The description he obtained from the eyewitnesses was exacting, and has been a primary source for most of what is found in the literature since that April 1977 incident, as for example, in Mark A. Hall’s Thunderbirds: America’s Living Legends of Giant Birds
My brother Jerry became an author in his own right.
Here are Jerry’s book covers.
As many of you know, Jerry has been suffering from throat and lung cancer, which he first announced in April 2008, although some remission appears to have set in recently, thank goodness.
I wish him the best, good health, and rapid recovery in Tennessee on his 58th! Cryptozoology needs him out there again, investigating cases in the hills.
Please…
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Happy Birthday!!!
A very happy birthday to Jerry. He has been such a kind and generous friend to me. I was especially grateful to hear about his returning to good health.
Thank you, Loren, for sharing this.
Wish Jerry the speediest recovery and a long life. Happy BDay!!!
Loren, this is getting really strange. I told you this July that you and my mother share a birthday and now it seems that your father and grandfather share the same birthday as my brother and brother in law (Oct. 2 ).
Also my wife has a MSW. Weird.
Happy birthday to your brother and I hope he’s doing well.