Comments on: Remembering Don

By: Carol Yoho

Carol Yoho — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:23:24 +0000

Max and I found a dear friend in Don and his wife, Edie. Don had a wonderful sense of humor, was caring and articulate, a good husband and father, a lover of the Flint Hills, the writer of wonderful historical fiction and supporter of other writers. We enjoyed his editorial comments in the newspaper column, “Horsin’ Around.”
Don and Edie once showed us their planned final resting place, the Bazaar Cemetery in rural Flint Hills near Cottonwood Falls. Since visiting the site, I’ve thought about that vital, restful place — an area where Plains Indians once roamed. I know Don will feel at home there. Rest in peace, Don. We’ll miss you here.

By: heineken160

heineken160 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:00:13 +0000

I don’t think so but he was a YMCA director.

By: Janet Fish

Janet Fish — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:49:09 +0000

Wasn’t he also a lawyer?

By: heineken160

heineken160 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:08:06 +0000

We shouldn’t overlook that he was an MD. My first real conversation with Dr. Coldsmith was at St. Mary’s Hospital in Emporia. He had removed the appendix of my fraternity pledge pop, maybe in 1975. Don was the Emporia State campus physician who I knew by name and face. After the appendix he was a friend.