The world has lost a wonderful man in Jim McLaughlin. I was fortunate to meet him at a concert several years ago and we became fast friends. Jim was a very kind man who was extremely supportive of me and my music, and I will miss him very much. "When Bob McLaughlin was signing the visitor book at St. Ignatius Nursing Home in Havertown one day not long ago, he said he couldn’t help paging through the list of the people who had come to visit his brother, Jim, who was dying of a malignant brain tumor. 'There were hundreds and hundreds of names,' he told the more than 100 people who gathered in the St. Joseph University Chapel on Tuesday morning to say goodbye to Jim McLaughlin, who died on July 24, just 8 months after his diagnosis. 'There were so many, the man sitting behind the desk said to me, ‘Is he an important guy?’ ' Bob McLaughlin paused. 'I said, ‘Yes he is.’'" -Denise Foley, Irish Philadelphia
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