On May 5 2015, the Apple community lost Kevin Lockey — a consultant in the Bay Area. Many of you may know that Kevin has been fighting a particularly rare and devastating cancer for a while now. His strength, his positiveness, and his outlook may have you caught off guard by this news. If that’s the case, it’s a pure testament to Kevin and his personality.
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wrote on May 13, 2015
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I first met Kevin back about 10 years ago, and we became fast Mac friends. Once we got to know more about each other, we discovered one of our mutual interests: the hatred of Cancer and our support of the Livestrong Foundation and their Livestrong Challenge bicycle rides.
His own relationship to Cancer started long before his diagnosis: his first wife died of cancer when she was in her early 30's, and my own relationship with the terrible disease (my wife, father, father-in-law, and two young friends). I was lucky to be able to cross that Livestrong Challenge finish line with some of those people while they were still alive, but battling cancer. It's my goal to keep crossing that finish line long after their passing.
After Kevin's diagnosis, we went to the Livestrong Challenge in Davis, CA, where Kevin and my wife, shortly after Kevin's diagnosis, crossed finish line in the "I'm a Survivor" lane, hand in hand. It was a sight I'll never forget.
A short 2 years later, we've lost Kevin to that dreaded disease.
Despite that history of cancer, we had some great times with the Lockey family: We visited with them every year around MacWorld SF and MacTech Conference in Los Angeles - sharing family vacations to the San Diego Zoo, Disneyworld, and sites around San Francisco. We met them in New York for a short while during one of their annual visits for Broadway shows. The entire Lockey family stayed at my house two summers ago for nearly 2 weeks for their visit to DC.
These visits allowed me to understand Kevin's approach to small business and his Mac Coaching job. His first loss taught him much about life: it's more about family and friends, and time spent with each other, than it is about working all the time. Kevin was happy working even just 3-4 hours a day, because the rest of those hours was spent with people he loved.
It's safe to say that Kevin will be greatly missed, and his lessons on life will live on in everyone he touched. He will be forever in my mind, my consulting, and his family in my prayers.
His own relationship to Cancer started long before his diagnosis: his first wife died of cancer when she was in her early 30's, and my own relationship with the terrible disease (my wife, father, father-in-law, and two young friends). I was lucky to be able to cross that Livestrong Challenge finish line with some of those people while they were still alive, but battling cancer. It's my goal to keep crossing that finish line long after their passing.
After Kevin's diagnosis, we went to the Livestrong Challenge in Davis, CA, where Kevin and my wife, shortly after Kevin's diagnosis, crossed finish line in the "I'm a Survivor" lane, hand in hand. It was a sight I'll never forget.
A short 2 years later, we've lost Kevin to that dreaded disease.
Despite that history of cancer, we had some great times with the Lockey family: We visited with them every year around MacWorld SF and MacTech Conference in Los Angeles - sharing family vacations to the San Diego Zoo, Disneyworld, and sites around San Francisco. We met them in New York for a short while during one of their annual visits for Broadway shows. The entire Lockey family stayed at my house two summers ago for nearly 2 weeks for their visit to DC.
These visits allowed me to understand Kevin's approach to small business and his Mac Coaching job. His first loss taught him much about life: it's more about family and friends, and time spent with each other, than it is about working all the time. Kevin was happy working even just 3-4 hours a day, because the rest of those hours was spent with people he loved.
It's safe to say that Kevin will be greatly missed, and his lessons on life will live on in everyone he touched. He will be forever in my mind, my consulting, and his family in my prayers.