Skip Bockoven
by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
I met Skip when he worked at Action Technologies as a sales man. When we worked on the “Ibex Domain Manager”, we hired him and brought him and his wife Cindy to Switzerland for a couple of months. He became a friend and we were sad, that we couldn’t get enough traction in the company, that we could keep him. So he went back to the US, and we only talked to each other on a very irregular schedule.
A couple of years ago, I heard that he had cancer. But he still sent out life-signs from time to time, and things sounded good (as far as having cancer sounds good)
Skip died last friday. His blood cancer caught up with him after seven years. I’ll miss you, even though we weren’t terrible close to each other.
Skip was my best friend; we parted company 12 years ago, not by choice but by necessity. I miss him and think of him often. We were dive buddies, learned to scuba dive together and probably dived over a hundred times together. He was the best dive buddy anyone could ask for. I will miss him terribly. I brought him from Wang Laboratories, to another company, then to Action Technologies. He was ever the steady professional. I love and miss him.
I just heard that we lost Skip. He took my son with him to dive for abalone and we had the best abalone dinners EVER because of his free diving skills. You never know when you won’t be able to do those things that make it a RICH life. Every day is a gift. Skip will remain alive in our memories and heart.
Is this the Skip Bockoven who worked for MK and then later Wang? I remembered Skip at MK and decided to google his name. I always remember him as a great guy…Either way, a man who positively touched the lives of many has passed.
I used to work with Skip in Madison, WI, when we were too young to know where our journey down life’s raging river would take us. Sad to read this. Jeffrey put it best: a great guy who positively touched people.