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Started by DJ@Retired, Oct 21, 2012, 10:36

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DJ@Retired

Oct 21, 2012, 10:36
It's with great saddens I have very hard news about my best friend Joe Kiman. Joe pass away during a nap in a hotel room in Charleston WV. Benny he's brother was with him. So I'm happy to say he did not die alone. My level of saddens is off the charts. I can only image what his family is going though. Please join in me with a pray for the lord to welcome in to his loving arm's and for the great loss for his family. I'm pretty upset right now so of I do not make to much sense please forgive me. I have just lost my brother. The last words he said to me is he love me and my were the the same. I love you Joe. God Bless you.
A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting next to you saying "Dam, that was Fun"

Marlin

#1
Oct 21, 2012, 10:43
This is a shock, I remember Joe as being in good shape and very energetic. Very sorry to hear it.

Mike McFarlin

#2
Oct 22, 2012, 08:22
He will be missed! Always enjoyed his stories and his humor. Very hard to believe! Rest in Peace old friend!
"Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.

Laundry Man

#3
Oct 22, 2012, 08:38
Very sorry to hear. My favorite Joey story is at Pilgrim.  Norman criticized Joe's hair.  Joey cuts off the rat tail and nails it Normans desk.
RIP Joe,
LM

Dave Warren

#4
Oct 22, 2012, 10:44
I was a technician at Dresden and Joe always drove a nice car and made good money and always had the good paying ALARA jobs.
I ask him one day, "How do you make it look so easy?"
He said "Its simple, in your pre-job briefs, tell em' to use a HEPA and keep it wet, and don't forget to bring in 3 dozen assorted donuts".
By God, every morning he came through that guard shack with 3 boxes of frickin Dunkin Donuts.
Loved the guy for 25 years, sad to see him depart.

dtwomey

#5
Oct 22, 2012, 11:00
What a suck. Joey was cool as hell. One of the best to come out of Newburyport. Haven't seen him in a long time but will never forget the times we hung out. Memories of Salem/wildwood NJ with Mahoney and Mitch Gerry. Unbelievable!! Now they're all gone. Everybody say a prayer for a good man with a great heart. He would do anything to help somebody. Good bye Joey. Will never forget you.

lowlrc

#6
Oct 22, 2012, 11:21
Holy Cow what awful news-- I grew up with Joe in Newburyport and had the pleasure to work with him @ Dresden. He was one of the original legends in the nuke business-- RIP Joe you will be missed
Lori C--

SloGlo

#7
Oct 22, 2012, 11:34
well, dang!  what a shock to read this!  had good times with joe and benny at da peach.  it's sad to know there's only the memories now.   :o
quando omni flunkus moritati

dubble eye, dubble yew, dubble aye!

dew the best ya kin, wit watt ya have, ware yinze are!

PWHoppe

#8
Oct 22, 2012, 04:01
This is indeed a shock! I am very sad to hear about Joe, as I have many fond memories of one of the Newburyport guys.  :-[

RIP Joe and May GOD Bless you.
If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many days will it take a grasshopper with a rubber foot to kick a hole in a tin can?

stirfry

#9
Oct 22, 2012, 10:12
RIP Brother Joe. you should be proud of the many Jrs. and Srs. that you have helped in this industry.

Relax, have a beer and a Joint, and be our nuclear safeguard looking down on us all.

Finni
YA gotta be SOMEWHERE

walstib

#10
Oct 23, 2012, 03:25
So sad to hear about Joe.  Hadn't seen him since his ALARA for Com Ed, but he was an old and true friend.  Just out of the Navy and wondering what civilians were like, I'm proud to say that Joe and Wild Bill were the first two friends I made in this industry.  Rest in peace in brother.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail -Emerson
If you are going through hell, keep going
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - H S Thompson

HenryBlack

#11
Oct 24, 2012, 05:16
I am sad to hear of Joe's passing. He and Bill Mahoney made me what I am today. I remember all the good times we had at Arkansas and Millstone. Rest In Peace  and may God bless. Now I am tearing up. I know you are in a better place now.
Henry Black

Camella Black

#12
Oct 25, 2012, 03:36
I am not ashamed to say that I am sitting in a parking lot crying... Just heard news from Henry and crap, stuff like this doesn't get any easier. What good times all of us old timers had on the road... Another friend gone to the saints above. God speed Joe tell everybody I said hello.

illegalsmile

#13
Oct 31, 2012, 12:39
Damb...fewer and fewer of the old skule left. RIP Joey.

DJ@Retired

#14
Nov 05, 2012, 11:11
Sorry to say no obituary for Joe Kiman, The 2 of Joe sons,Benny & his ex-wife had a private service for Joe in Charleston, WV. Thank God for His Ex-Wife Kelly who took care of Joe remains. Love to you Kelly. Joe, you will not be forgotten. I'm going to be written a obituary for Joe Kiman. If anyone would like to add something to it please send me an Email @ DJRaid76@yahoo.com. I'll be posting it in his home town of Newburyport Mass & Morris IL & NukeWorker. Joe you are missed. DJ   :-X     
A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting next to you saying "Dam, that was Fun"

CarolinaGirl

#15
Nov 08, 2012, 04:23
On Behalf of Rick Cox:

I remember the days we had at Turkey Pt in '87 and at Conn Yankee in '84. I'll always remember the Home (Cedar Knoll) with Joe, Mahoney, Brad Brown, and Henry Black. Where has the time gone? Time and tide waits for no man.

incrediblehulk

#16
Nov 12, 2012, 10:41
Sigh....
Another legend gone. Joe was always kind and helpful...quick with a story, quick with a helping hand. RIP!
Life is short. That is all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.
                               - Marcus Aurelius

Liberty is never unalienable. It must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
                          -R.A. Heinlein

oaitw

#17
Nov 12, 2012, 02:27
wow, boheman joe kiman,
i remember the times that i drove him to airport when we worked at n. anna
lots o' memories.  see ya when i git there. 

rapid

Camella Black

#18
Nov 17, 2012, 11:15
Quote from: CarolinaGirl on Nov 08, 2012, 04:23
On Behalf of Rick Cox:

I remember the days we had at Turkey Pt in '87 and at Conn Yankee in '84. I'll always remember the Home (Cedar Knoll) with Joe, Mahoney, Brad Brown, and Henry Black. Where has the time gone? Time and tide waits for no man.

Please tell Rick hello. Yes, where has the time gone. The "home " run by Bud and Sue was a home to many of us way back when. During the CY Decomissioning I rode by and cried when I saw it in despair.

How many games of Trivia Pursuit we all played! Not but a few of us left out of that bunch of kids.

ergo sum

#19
Jan 18, 2013, 03:45
In 1980 I was new to the road when I met Joe and Bill Mahoney at Millstone.   Among  other skills they taught me was the correct care and feeding of a rent-a-car, -fill the back seat with dead soldiers and fast food wrappers, drive the tires off, leave only fumes in the tank. But now they are both gone and we are all poorer for the loss.


"You may ask yourself, 'how do I work this?' " D. Byrne                                                         
  "In order to live outside the law you must be honest'" Bob Dylan

DJ@Retired

#20
Apr 02, 2014, 11:03
Ellen Root "Joe's sister" and I will be returning Joe back home on Sunday. I consider this a great honor to release my best friends remains to his boyhood home and also were his parent are laid to rest on Plum Island, Massachusetts. I believe in my heart that is one of the reasons I here in New Hampshire. Please take a moment to think about Joe. As for me I will not be saying goodbye, but till we meet again.
God Bless DJ
A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting next to you saying "Dam, that was Fun"

rameysdz

#21
Apr 02, 2014, 01:13
Man...I really loved Joe ! We shared many adventures working and rooming together. I think one of the funniest things that ever happened to us was when I stopped off in Albuquerque to see him for couple of days. We had been casino hopping, and were just about busted. Out of nowhere, he hits the jackpot on one of the slots for 18K. Right after they reset the machine, Joe gave me 20 dollars to put into it. As I did that some regular made fun of me, saying that it was stupid to put money into a machine that just hit the jackpot.....Funny thing happened...It hit for another 2k on the first spin. Which Joe let keep for myself.  At that point, we had to get a police escort to get us safely to our car. Lets just say the locales were not cheering for us!       I miss him !!!
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