THE FINAL WORD: SURFERS DROP INTO THE OBITUARY PAGES

Matt Warshaw's article originally ran in the October 2005 issue of Surfer's Journal. * * * Last June, not long after Dale Velzy died, I spent an afternoon searching the Los Angeles Times online archive for surfer obituaries. Early days in the hereafter, it turns out, are as random and capricious as life on earth. An example. Match the famous and fairly-recently departed surfer with the word len...

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