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Jerome Featherman – September 2009

Jerome Featherman was about a mile from the home he shared with his brother when he was struck from behind by a Toyota Camry in Green Valley Arizona.   Jerome was killed on his bicycle Sept. 3 2009, a month before his 85th birthday.  Jerome, a cyclist for about 10 years, was in the bike lane wearing a helmet and reflective vest.  “He would ride only where there was a big bicycle lane,” Burt Featherman said of his brother, who avoided major intersections and even was careful to stop his bike if he needed a drink of water.  The driver  “looked down to change the radio station and looked up to see the bicyclist on his windshield,” according to a report released by authorities.

Jerome Featherman never married and he had no children.  He is survived by his brother Burt Featherman, 8o years old.  He spent two-and-a-half years in the Army during World War II picking up dead and wounded soldiers across Germany and France, some of them booby-trapped, his brother said.  The experience left him bitter, but the Jewish man from Brooklyn didn’t let it beat him.  He and Burt took over the family business in 1947, manufacturing steel tubing. They worked together 25 years.  They moved to Green Valley in 1995 for a lot of the same reasons others do: Climate, cost of living and just 20 minutes from a good hospital. They both were involved in the GVR Computer Club.

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