David Mathew

I too met Dave on the World Desk and felt the same as everyone else: what a talented, kind and gentle man he was. In recent years, I and other members of my family have loved getting his emails and jokes and funny and amazing things. My wife, Marianne, protested that I did not always remember to forward them to her computer so she asked if Dave could include her on the mailing list in her own right. He said he would but, typically considerate, offered to cut out the more risque ones sent to her. She told him she didn’t want that, and so we both got them at the same time. Often we would simultaneously burst out laughing, and say “Have you seen the one from Dave Mathew?” We were both very sad to learn Dave had died. ■