Archive for September, 2013

If You Let Them Think You’re a REAL
Mind Reader

In 1995 I suffered a compound fracture of my right thumb. Up until then I had made my living as a sleight of hand artist. 9 weeks in a cast from my fingertips to my elbows. Tim helped me work out a mind reading act that I could do without the use of my right hand. […]

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Heeeere’s Timmy!

Tim and I were once booked to perform together at a fund raiser for a Synagogue in Washington DC. I was already in the hotel the night before our show when Tim arrived. We were sharing a room that night, and as he walked in I smiled, and said “Hey there Timmy.” He said “Please […]

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Fire Without Matches

We spent some time together in Kona Hawaii many years ago. At dinner one night Tim couldn’t stop talking about wilderness survival. (You know how it was whenever Tim got interested in something. He would fixate on it and soon know more about it than any expert.) No matter where the conversation went, Tim kept […]

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Tim Teaches Jim to Read

As Tim’s mom, I have so many wonderful memories of him that would fill this website, but I want to share one example of how much Tim loved other people and just how much he gave of himself to others. I remember Tim getting off the plane in Ontario, California after flying cross-country from his […]

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Tim on 9/11

Last night I performed a show in Lexington KY for a group of scientists. It was the final show on my calendar that was a referral from Tim. I knew they had tried to book Tim, had booked him before, and he had talked them into hiring me for the gig in his place. I […]

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Tim’s Birthday Letter to Mom

Mom, Happy 70th Birthday. (2003) There are so many millions of little moments that you have shared with us.  You have taught us, protected us, nurtured us, fed us, bathed us, cleaned our house, cleaned all our laundry, ironed all our clothes, and helped us to grow to be ourselves.  Through thick and thin, you […]

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Memorial Talk – Liz Abbott Youngs

I am honored to be here today to memorialize my dear friend, my brother, Tim. The amazing outpouring of love is obvious and overwhelming – truly Tim touched hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. For me and for my family, all of the Conovers are our family. We have known them all our entire lives, […]

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Legend of the Fearsome Five

The Story of Undying Friendship by Jim Henderson, Bob Jansen, Pat Kelly, Andy O’Shea   It is amazing that the friendships we cultivate in our youth require so little sustenance throughout our lives.  Brief encounters as we separately wind our way through life serve as periodic reminders of our earlier days together and the incredible strength […]

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Memorial Talk – Jim Henderson

Regretfully I am unable to be with you all this evening to collectively honor and remember my good friend, Tim, and I sincerely appreciate his family allowing us to share our memories of him. Tim was an extraordinary young man.  We attended the same schools from elementary to high school.  I think our first class […]

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Memorial Talk – Bob Jansen

I first met Tim Conover in the fall of 1969 when the neighborhood we lived in organized their first football team.  We were both 10.  Over the next several years I was fortunate to form a great friendship with Tim and of course 3 others.  We called ourselves the Fearsome Five.  We did everything together.  […]

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