Looking for obituary for James Farwell of Los Gatos, CA 1995-97. 
Santa Clara University '66, US Army 25th Infantry Division, Viet Nam,
Coached Standford U. Women's Crew, Coach of Santa Clara University
Crew, founded Mountain Charly's Restaurant and Bar, Los Gatos, CA

You may want to contact the Los Gatos Weeekly Times: 
http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/03.28.01/index.html

5-17-2003

Are you absolutely sure that this man is deceased?  The death index
shows a person by this name who died in 1992 at the age of 48, but no
one by this name who died between 1995-1997.

SINCERELY,
4keith

Hello ciskoe-ga

As a fellow Santa Clara alum, I recall items from the alumni
newsletter about Jim Farwell -- especially in the years that he was
involved with crew. I thought it would be easy to find his obituary
but I haven’t been able to track it down. In the process I came across
some information that you might find interesting – even if it isn’t
the obituary. Enjoy!

czh

http://santaclarabroncos.ocsn.com/sports/c-crew/mtt/farwell_jay00.html
Jay Farwell Profile
Jay Farwell begins his fifth year at the helm of the Santa Clara men's
crew program.
Farwell's ties to the Santa Clara crew program dates back to his
father Jim who started the crew program at Santa Clara with classmates
in 1965. His father then moved on to coach the program for 20 years.
Contact: 
Jay Farwell   Head Men’s Crew Coach   554-4627   jfarwell@scu.edu
***** You might contact Jay Farwell to get the information you’re
looking for.

http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/20020717/lgnews2.html
Mountain Charley's saloon marks its 30th anniversary with reunion,
party
Picture Caption -- Mountain Charley's co-owners Sue Farwell (left) and
Mark Achille prepare to celebrate as the local saloon marks its 30th
anniversary on July 18.
"It's amazing how many people either worked here or met their current
husband or wife here," says Sue, who knows of what she speaks. She is
the widow of longtime Los Gatan Jim Farwell, who—together with
business partner Jack McNamara—founded Mountain Charley's as a
restaurant and saloon in 1972.

http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/10.09.96/baggerly.html 
Los Gatos Weekly-Times 
Today's photograph of Santa Clara University's varsity male crew shows
a woman coxswain shouting cadence and controlling the rudder. The cox
starts the action with "ready all" or perhaps "ready y'all." The sport
was started at SCU by the late Jim Farwell, and Lexington was their
practice course--an excellent course except that the width was
unpredictable because it depended on how much rainfall there had been.

http://www.plu.edu/~crew/alumni/Submitted%20Stories/ojalahist.html 
History  by: Jim Ojala, PLU Crew 1965-1969
One member of that Lute lightweight boat was Jim Farwell, a former
Santa Clara oar serving in the Army at Fort Lewis. He later coached at
Santa Clara and played a pivotal role in establishing close ties
between the PLU and Santa Clara rowing programs. PLU crews stayed at
SCU during 1968 Spring Break on a rowing tour of the Bay Area (PLU
Crew’s first trip to California), and PLU hosted SCU’s crews when they
came up to Seattle for the Western Sprints a month or so later.
Exchanges continued for some time after, but by now I'm sure they’re a
thing of the past. Tragically, Jim passed away from cancer a few years
ago, far too young.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8612/chap_a.html
Picture Caption -- Right off the campus and straight into the army.(L
to R) Lt. John Laughlin, Mississippi State, me, Lt. Jim Farwell,
University of Santa Clara, yuck it up in our rented house in Olympia,
WA., while stationed at Ft. Lewis.

4keith wrote:
"5-17-2003 
 
Are you absolutely sure that this man is deceased?  The death index
shows a person by this name who died in 1992 at the age of 48, but no
one by this name who died between 1995-1997.
 
SINCERELY, 
4keith"

That's the guy. I didn't do the math, I was going by my faulty memory.
 He was a senior when I was a freshman, so he would have ben 43 when I
turned 40 in '87. 87 + 5 = '92.

Ciskoe-ga

Czh-ga:

I found most of those with a regular Google.  The Los Gatos paper
archives only go back to Dec of '95. As posted elsewhere, Jim died in
'92.

Didn't find the reference to him Rowing at PLU. Didn't know he rowed
light wieght. He was in the heavy wt boat when he was a Senior at SCU.
 The memoir by his army buddy refers to a picture of the three of
them.

Thanks,
ciskoe-ga