Colonial Crester

[Stuhoo]

 

Some sad news to share:

Read this morning that Colonial Crester, a founder and mod at the HSN board, very suddenly passed away last night. If any of you ever venture over to that board, there is a thread in place to pay respects. CC was not only a great mod and Hoosier fan, but he was always one of the first to remind HSN posters that no matter what board and group one prefers, we are all Hoosier fans. 

RIP Colonial Crester

 

[Rico]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

Some sad news to share:

Read this morning that Colonial Crester, a founder and mod at the HSN board, very suddenly passed away last night. If any of you ever venture over to that board, there is a thread in place to pay respects. CC was not only a great mod and Hoosier fan, but he was always one of the first to remind HSN posters that no matter what board and group one prefers, we are all Hoosier fans. 

RIP Colonial Crester

 

Thanks for your kind words over there.

RIP CC

[Rico]

 

[Brass Cannon]

Yep saw this on Facebook yesterday and it hit me like a ton of bricks. He was a good person to his core. 

[mdn82]

RIP CC.  You guys don’t even know the half of how much that dude meant to HSN and ultimately the move over to 247 after leaving Scout.  He was the driving force behind moving from Scout to HSN.  Ultimately he was the money that kept HSN going long past when he could have let it go due to his love for this community. Every site was trying to get our community to merge with theirs for traffic.  It was health issues that pushed that merge forward from HSN to 247.  Us splitting here from there was obviously very touchy, but I think I can speak for the few of us that split when I say we lost a great dude that has meant more to IU forums than most will ever know.  Man that was a fun time.  

[bluegrassIU]

Thank you guys. There are no words to express the loss. CC always felt good about the friends he had hete at btb. A huge blow to all of us.

God bless.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Condolences to CC and his family.  Always too early to lose a Hoosier!  Rest in Peace.  

[mamasa]

Very cool guy! He was from Columbus and knew my wife's aunt from their IU days

[mdn82]

Hope Ken is ok.  Saw he hadn’t posted on it.  He wasn’t young when we were all over there.  I am sure this has him shook more than any other.  Thoughts and prayers to his HSN and real family.  This is a shocking one.  Pretty sure he was my parents age so around 60.  Surreal

[Trish]

Terrible news. I remember him on the old Scout.com message board. 

Wishing the best for his family moving forward.

I was unaware of HoosierSportsNation. I forget how i stumbled upon this fourm. I wish there was just one single IU fan message boards. There was always a rivalry between Peegs and Scout back in the day. 

[bluegrassIU]

16 minutes ago, mdn82 said:

Hope Ken is ok.  Saw he hadn’t posted on it.  He wasn’t young when we were all over there.  I am sure this has him shook more than any other.  Thoughts and prayers to his HSN and real family.  This is a shocking one.  Pretty sure he was my parents age so around 60.  Surreal

Sadly, I was the one that had to call Ken and break the news. I have messaged back and forth today.

Understandably, he is shocked and a bit of a mess. But seems ok, relatively.

[mdn82]

3 hours ago, bluegrassIU said:

Sadly, I was the one that had to call Ken and break the news. I have messaged back and forth today.

Understandably, he is shocked and a bit of a mess. But seems ok, relatively.

Oh dude I am sorry to hear that on you being the one that had to break it.  Ken if you see this, hang in there.  

[TheWatShot]

I saw this on HSN and thought it was a reference to ccgeneral, there was no way it was ColonialCrester, because I had just seen a post from him a day or two earlier. 

 

Crazy how fast life happens. 

[Naturalhoosier]

Thanks for posting this. I had no idea. So terrible. :(

[JaybobHoosier]

Very sad news and hits really hard. I had the pleasure of meeting Eric (Colonial) a few times, such a great guy. He will be missed, such a major part of IU fan forums today!

 

 

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[Stuhoo]

1 minute ago, JaybobHoosier said:

Very sad news and hits really hard. I had three pleasure of meeting Eric (Colonial) a few times, such a great guy. He will be missed, such a major part of IU fan forums today!


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Thanks Jaybob--well said, condolences, and always good to see you stop in.

 

[JaybobHoosier]

 
Thanks Jaybob--well said, condolences, and always good to see you stop in.
 

Thanks! Miss my old pals for here and HSN.


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[johnsoniu]

RIP my friend. CC was a class act all the way around.