While doing some research on my grandfather, I ran across his MySpace page! The fact that Irving Klaw has been dead for some 41 years would seem to make this impossible.
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| [Irving Klaw’s] death remains the stuff of family legend.
Labor Day weekend, 1966: A 55-year-old Irving Klaw awoke with pain on the right side of his abdomen. A family friend, a doctor, diagnosed him with appendicitis. Since the ailment was in its early stages, the physician told Irving not to panic, but suggested he pack a bag and check into the hospital. Stubborn to the last, Irving decided to go to work. Later that day, he was found dead from peritonitis. At least according to my mother. My cousin Ira Kramer, son of Irving’s sister Paula Klaw, tells a different story. Irving, who had been under treatment for an ulcer, visited the same family friend, who told him to just take some antacids and not to worry. Later that day, he was discovered dead from peritonitis. His son Arth has another theory: He believes Irving woke up with the pain, took some antacids, and went to work. Irving Klaw hated doctors. (Reprinted from my article "The Notorious Irving Klaw", The Austin Chronicle March 10, 2006) |
If it all wasn’t strange enough, I ran across this:
On one level, this is all very flattering but on another it is just creepy.