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 28, 2015
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As Roonie Roche aptly writes, Kevin Lockey was "a big man with an even bigger heart.” He was a presence. He was a doer, an organizer, a facilitator, an advocate, and or course, he loved and lived Apple and the collective engagement on behalf of the company that intertwined with our livelihoods. Partnering with the generous Alberto Palacios of Create More in SF, he brought in the Bay Area ACN Nor-Cal village, orphans from the terminated Apple Authorized Business Agent program, and a host of “ irregulars” looking to peek into, or enter, a growing tent via meetings in Alberto’s 4th Street SF business basement.
Kevin was producer and impresario. Proximity to the Mother Ship was a natural resource he mined on our behalf. In the monthly gatherings, we traveled in from around the Bay Area and some from parts well beyond. Invariably, we listened, we studied, we learned, we mingled, we extolled and griped, and we came away with a solid collection of very good days.
Kevin’s presence, of course, moved far beyond the region, in which i knew him only through these gatherings and his phone calls and emails prodding me to get further involved in some activity. I’m appreciative of all those here who have added to a more complete tapestry.
I last saw Kevin at MacTech Pro SF at the end of March and had not known about his illness. He sat at a table outside the conference room engaging folks as they came out. He stood up, strangely thin. We talked. He was surprisingly upbeat. He wore his usual Hawaiian-style shirt. It was filled with autographs of folks attending MacTech Conference last November, which he went to shortly after major surgery. Too shortly, he offered, and then smiled.
Kevin, you will be missed, but not forgotten.
Kevin was producer and impresario. Proximity to the Mother Ship was a natural resource he mined on our behalf. In the monthly gatherings, we traveled in from around the Bay Area and some from parts well beyond. Invariably, we listened, we studied, we learned, we mingled, we extolled and griped, and we came away with a solid collection of very good days.
Kevin’s presence, of course, moved far beyond the region, in which i knew him only through these gatherings and his phone calls and emails prodding me to get further involved in some activity. I’m appreciative of all those here who have added to a more complete tapestry.
I last saw Kevin at MacTech Pro SF at the end of March and had not known about his illness. He sat at a table outside the conference room engaging folks as they came out. He stood up, strangely thin. We talked. He was surprisingly upbeat. He wore his usual Hawaiian-style shirt. It was filled with autographs of folks attending MacTech Conference last November, which he went to shortly after major surgery. Too shortly, he offered, and then smiled.
Kevin, you will be missed, but not forgotten.