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It is with a heavy, pain filled heart that I come to you with the most terrible news I have received in a long time.

Jody Minier, aka northmountain or northie, well known to many for his kind, caring, giving heart & always working for 'his' kids at Camp Victory & tirelessly giving of himself for Chillisquaque Coonhunters, Washingtonville, PA. He is also a well known & loved MOH & BSJ. He has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In June of 07 he was diagonosed with skin cancer of the groin, surgery was done & he was told it had been a success. In November, he again was admitted to the hospital with what he thought was an infection, only to find out that the cancer has returned & has grown. On Monday I received a phone call from Bill Brubaker with the news that Jody is terminal & the future outlook is grim.

I spoke with Jody last evening on the phone, he is on so much painkiller, that I am sure Jody did not know who I was or much else for that matter. I would tell you all to phone him, but would be little use, as he is groggy & 'out of it'. I will however, be posting an address for you to mail cards & letters to him. God hoping in a lucid moment, he will be able to read them & know who they are from & how much he is loved & thought of.

Please, I am begging you all to keep him in your prayers. He has always been the one to give, please let's all give some back to him. Jody has been my best friend for many years, never has he turned away my call or question for help. He always had time for you & loved to cheer you up with one of his hunting stories or just plain life experience.

Earlier last year, his cousin said to him 'Jod, don't do Camp Victory ths year.' Jody said 'Why the H... not?' 'Cuz you are so close to have made $100,000.00 for them in donations & if you reach that goal, you won't have anything to work towards.' Jody denied that, of course, & 2007 Camp Victory auction was held & the amount made in donations topped Jody's goal. Jody wasn't able to attend this auction, though, as he was still in the hospital from surgery. Even more eerie was the fact that I wanted to make Jody an afghan & asked what colors. He said Steeler colors. It will be my funeral shroud. I said 'Oh heck, by the time you check out, you'll have that one worn out from wrapping yourself up in it to watch your team play & be working on a 3rd or 4th one for you.' I really am not understanding all of this, I'm in the asking why stage & maybe there is hope stage. Tomorrow I will post his mailing address. IF you would like his phone number, I would ask that you call me & ask me for it, remember that he won't be the same ole Jody. I will also be posting updates on him.

If anyone has any stories or memories of Jody, how bout taking a moment to jot them down on here. So that those that have not had the wonderful experience of getting to know this man personally, can get a better understanding of just how special he is.

Jody has moved to the nursing home, here is his address:

ORANGEVILLE NURSING AND REHAB.
ROOM 106 BED 2
200 BERWICK ROAD
ORANGEVILLE PA 17859

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Me and dad had the privalge to meet Jody back in 05 at the D.C Youth, he was the bench show judge . He act like he new us for years ! One of the nicest guys you will ever meet in this support .

Haha I will never forget I was showing Boone ( HOBO dogs) ..Boone just kept on looking at Jody and moving around ..Jody got closer to Boone I will never forget it Jody said he has never liked me as a pup and he is scared of this big guy haha . He new that Boone was capable of standing up there by his self and he showed respect and took consideration of the situation and pick me ! As me and dad were leaving we both said he is a great guy and we need more people like him in the sport !

God Bless you Jody Get well bud!

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I am very sorry to hear this. I have considered Jody a friend for a long time. He has been to my home on his Camp Victory travels in the past. I will pray to God to be with him at this time and also thank him for giving Jody to us as an example of how the rest of us can help others in need. Jody is a big man with an even bigger heart. Thankyou Lori. keep us posted.

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Prayers will be said for this Man and his family.

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Jody has been a friend to many of us.. He's in our prayers!

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On one of the many nights I called to cry on his shoulder or in his ear, I guess. He told me about some geese & his Aunt Lois. Seems Aunt Lois LOVED bingo. Never missed it. Well Jody had this pair of geese, a goose & a gander. Well the gander, being the male goose & all, did what a male goose does best. Threatens. Aunt Lois was headed down the driveway on her way to bingo & the gander came out at her with his wings aflappin'. Aunt Lois never stopped, smush right over him. Jody says 'Nothing got between her & B-64. Jody felt bad & went out with a shovel & pulled him off the driveway. Well that left the female & she was so upset, Jody thinks over the loss of her man, the she commited goosacide & crawled into the kennel with one of his Walker dogs, I think Eagle. Jody said the next morning he went out to feed & there was the goose, a slimmy, yucky mess in the pen, dead. Oh & he had a B & T one time, don't know the dogs name, but there was no way the dog was right in the head, cuz it was during deer hunting season & all the guys was at his place, standing in the yard gabbing & the B & T went right up to a duck & did the 'emmmm....doink the duck thing'. Jody said 'Couldn't deny it or even pretend it never happened, cuz it was right there in afront a everyone.'

Then he told me about the time he asked Leon Robbins for medical advice. Jody says never ask Leon for medical advice, I done learned the hard way. Seemed that Jody 'pulled a muscle' in his groin area & asked Leon what to do for it. Leon says 'Why you go git yerself some of that thar cream, what's it called Ben something & you rub it in your leg or butt or whatever. Just don't get it on your dink.'! So Jody did what Leon said, put it on right before going to bed. Crawled under the covers & things was ok for a bit & then it started to get a bit warm, so he threw a cover off. Didn't help, threw nother one off & by then it was areally startin' to light up. He said he jumped outta bed & headed for the bath room. Says he done drug his hinder across the floor like a dog, just a howlin', tears streaming down his face. Got to the shower & said he stood & let the water run & then got the towel & flapped it & rubbed & flapped. Said it was the worse thing he ever experienced. Jody said he said to Leon the next day that it dang near killed him, Leon said 'I told you NOT to get it on yer dink!'

I do have a million more, man could he make a person laugh. And do mean laugh, til the tears run & you piddle in your pants.

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All you can do is to pray that God's will be done and not ours. He sounds like a wonderful person and I will pray for him. Also pray for his family and friends. God bless.

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For Jody Minier and his family from the William Family.

May he feel God's Presence and find comfort, Heather

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Thoughts and prayers for Northy. I hope one day they find a cure for cancer. weve lost mnay in the past few yrs to cancer friends and family alike. I rem many late night chats in Cc with northy joeK E and many others. never laughed so hard in my life with that crew! Prayers to u!

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address...
Geisinger Medical Center
100 Academy Ave.
Danville, PA 17822

LTAC Room 339

I spoke with his mom today. She told me that it is basic comfort measures only. The cancer has progressed up through his lower bowel & bladder & is working up. I asked the nurse today if he ever has a time through the day that he seems more with it, then others & she no, he is in & out mostly all the time. We are planning to go visit him on Sunday afternoon. Everyone who knows Jody, knows he loves to eat & loves mash taters, gravey & roast. His mom says he quit eatting, I'm thinking probally from the meds.

Please take a moment to drop Jody a quick note, the nurse said that they will read them for him, if he is unable to. Flowers would be nice too. I have to root around here, but if you can, track down his home address & drop his mom, Darlene a card. She told me today that this is so hard on her. She said 'I've had 2 strokes & have diabetis & I'm going to have to bury my baby. Parents aren't suppose to out live their children.' All I could tell her was that I couldn't even begin to understand what she is going through. I know I'm shedding tears for him & he's not gone, yet. What will I be like when it does happen?

Let's get some more stories up. If there isn't any up by tomorrow, I'll share some more of the one's he has told me.

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this is the 1st i`ve heard of this, and it`s very sad to learn. my thoughts and prayers go out to jody and his family. i just started going to washingtonville last year and saw all this great work being done there.

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Jody was the MOH at the Springville, PA club during the late winter, early spring hunt for years. This used to be the traditional first hunt of the year for a few of us up in NY.

Before you even got in the doors, you could hear Jody raisin hell or picking on someone. It never mattered whether you were a man, woman, or child. If he got the chance, he was going to try and get someone worked up. And, he usually succeeded.

My best story about Jody is from several years ago at this club. It was cold with a mix of rain and snow, but there was a good turnout of 23 dogs. Like always, it was heavily loaded with walkers, with 5 dogs being offbreeds.

Despite the weather, the coon were moving for the hunters that night, and lo and behold, the walkers were shut out. After handing out the trophies, Jody stood there looking at the bluetick that won registered. Now, he is already giving the walker men a good ribbing. The crowd is getting louder and louder by the minute with him egging everyone on. The final straw was when Jody yells out,"Not only did you walker boys get beat by a bluetick, but she's a fat bluetick too!" It was chaos after that. It remains as one of the favorite hunts I ever went to. Especially since I had a B+T that got a win slip and trophy that night so I was one of the pickers with Jody instead of against him.

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this evening. God bless him, he had about 2 minutes of with it conversation, but the rest was garbled & out there. I did tell him I was coming to visit him on Sunday & he seemed to understand that & expressed happiness over it.

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I have known Jody for better than 20 years and I have plenty of great memories of the time we spent together. He and I made a bunch of road trips together to different hunts and if I needed a co pilot to drive off some where to get a dog he was always willing to tag along. We would never run out of things to talk about and would always end up with soar ribbs from laughing. It would be hard for me to pick one story to put on here because there have been so many good times.

Jody has done so much for our club over the years and always tolk the bull by the horns when it came time for the hard work of getting things going for our Camp Victory Hunt and Benefit. He would do anything to help those kids.

Hang in there old freind and god bless you.Jimmy

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I only met Jody once. It was at AO back several years ago when some of the old CC gang was in their hey day . I think it was the same year I met Joe Kool.
We talked some and later that day I stopped by and got some raffle tickets from Jody and he explained to me the cause he was working for . I could tell immediatly that the work Jody was doing for these kids Victory Camp was work that he felt compelled in his huge heart to do as though he was led to do it by a higher power. I was struck by the enormous amount of compassion that he showed for others . I saw him several times over the weekend and he was always smiling and I felt like I had known the man for years.
I was saddened to hear of Northy's situation and I'll pray that God will comfort him and his family and I am greatful for the opportunity to meet and know him.

Lori .....when you do see him please tell him that "Bodene" is thinking of him .

God Bless you "Northy"

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you sure did know him well too. Jim, we lost Chet Walker now too, he was buried yesterday at the age of 41.

Bodene, I remeember you from CC too, Back when all the ole timers were there & kept everyone in stitches laughing joek, elvis, scott, Dog, oh, list was endless. I know quite a few have passed onto the great coonhunting woods in the sky. So least we know, when Jody's time comes, he won't be alone.

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Lori I heard about Chet Friday night at our meeting from Jim Petro. Sure hated to hear that. Chet was a heck of a good guy. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.Jim

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to get ahold of Brian to find out what happened to Chet & to let him know about Jody. So far, he hasn't returned my phone calls, as of yet.

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Lori Jim said one of the main arteries ruptured in his heart. He said they told him he was dead before they had a chance to get him to the hospital. He said Brian was taking it very hard. If you have a address for Brian could you post if on here or PM me I would like to send the familly a card.Jim

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went to see Jody yesterday afternoon. He seemed in good spirits. He was mostly with it, had a few times that he was out. But it was very enjoyable & he knew all the folks that sent their thoughts to him from here, Bodene, he remembers you,, Scotty, Hobo, elvis. He said he remembered all of you. I felt good comeing out of there after the visit. I promised him that I would bring him a whoopie next week & he said a nice cold glass of milk to go along would be nice. I hops & pray he will eat it for me.

JimF, I able still trying to track down Brian's addy. Will get it to you asap.

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Jody is in our Thoughts & Prayers - Thanks EnglishBabe for keeping us posted .

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thoughts & prayers coming, folks.

Give a hollar out, with your name & I'll make sure I tell him on Friday or Saturday, not sure which day Frank can make it home for. Got him homemade PA Dutch whoopie pies today, I hope & pray I can get at least one in him. Got regular & peanutbutter filled, just in case he likes both.

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this morning & he said they are moving him to the nursing home this evening. I'm so happy, he was really all there today. Made me so happy. Anyway, here will be the Nursing home he will be going to, won't know his room number til tomorrow.

ORANGEVILLE NURSING AND REHAB.
ROOM 106 BED 2
200 BERWICK ROAD
ORANGEVILLE PA 17859

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I remember meeting Northy at the McClure club. Before that we had chatted on CC. From our first introduction on, he acted like we were best friends for years. Even though I only knew him about 2 or 3. Like was said earlier, he has a heart bigger than he is!

Will definately keep him in my prayers.

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Jody wrote long personal letters to just about everyone for miles around trying to entice them to go to the Camp Victory auction. They were pretty hard to resist!

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