Shari, Mike and the whole Conover family, thank you for allowing me the honor to speak here today. I am fortunate to have not only known Tim, but to be a friend of his, elementary and middle school classmate and little league football teammate. It was a friendship forged in childhood that was cemented by […]
I’ve always appreciated the irony of our name, the Fearsome Five—four of us, at least, were anything but fearsome. In what was supposed to be our fiercest and most rebellious moment, our coming of age, we hatched a plot to egg the 8th grade math teacher house– Mr. Candelori’s house. As we boldly ventured out […]
I’m not really sure how to start. When Shari called me and asked me to speak at Tim’s memorial service, I have to admit I was more than a little afraid. I didn’t really know exactly what to say. I didn’t have all of those charming childhood stories to tell. And everybody already knows what […]
Chances are if you’ve scrolled through Timothy’s Facebook page over the last 16 days you might have wondered… Who are all these people posting sympathy messages and accolades, many coming from people that Tim had never even met? Yes… news travels very fast in our magic community. But not just the news when someone leaves […]
“Perfect!” Has anyone ever heard Tim use that word? (That’s what Tim would say about today.) Tim loved perfection. He loved the beauty of it all coming together exactly – precisely. That was ultimate joy for Tim. And today has been beautiful. Thank you. Thank you to the Bishop Lineberry, Sister Williams, our organist, and […]
The Broken Wand Ceremony is a ritual performed at the funeral of a magician in which a ceremonial wand (although years ago it was the actual wand that was used by the magician) is broken, indicating that with the magician’s death, the wand has lost its magic. The first time this ceremony was performed was for Harry Houdini. The […]
