Sad to hear he died today, he was one of the nicest men I've ever met. He came to the bookstore once for a reading and we got into a good conversation about books and the world.
He was not a particularly educated man by the accepted standards, but it was the way he educated himself through reading and experience that I admired. You can't really do that anymore.
When he was looking around the store he found a book published by a publishing company he'd invested in, and was interested in whether it was selling well and why people might buy it. It pleased him that people might be as interested in the world as he was.
I'll miss him.