WAS CALLED HOME ON THURSDAY

My father Robert Henry O'Meara AKA "Doc" O'Meara has passed on to that great Round-up in the sky. His obituary and funeral arrangements can be viewed on the link provided.

http://www.hollomon-brown.com/obituary/Robert-H.-O-Meara/Virginia-Beach-VA/1342144

well respected here. He will be greatly missed.

...God bless y'all.

Sorry to hear it, Aaron. Your dad and I talked several times via this site and email. He is a good guy and will be missed. You and your family are in our prayers.

Doug K

I am sorry to hear this, prayers sent for the family.

be missed here and elsewhere. corresonded and did some deals with him, wish i could have known him face to face.

Doc was one of the old breed. He will be missed by those of us left behind. My hearfelt condolences to his loved ones.

JLF

He was always a very helpful and considerate correspondent.

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Sincerely,

Hobie

I will miss him

Doc was on my mind all day Thursday (2/6) and now I know why. I knew he was quite ill and in the short rows, but I had hopped he had some good days left. He leave a big hole in this old world. God speed Doc, may you have fair winds and following seas.

I spent a number of pleasurable hours in his company.

He will be in our thoughts for many years to come.

Nm

wit & wisdom. Prayers for you folks.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

I am so very sorry. He was certainly one of the finest.

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Hadn't seen his name around in a long time, but I certainly remember his helpful posts in the Earp.com days.

Met Doc back around 1999 when I first found on line gun forums. While I've not heard from him in years, and knew him to be in declining health, I will miss him. Medics are very special people, they have ability beyond their training, the kinds of abilities only taught by very bad experiences, while Doc was never my medic, as a company grade officer I knew that taking care of the team medic was the very best insurance I could buy. In Viet Nam we called them "Bac Si", roughly translated that means "Doctor", more especially it is an honorific recognition of the ability and importance of the man.
The best I can do now is to raise my glass in honor of Bac Si O'Meara and say, "TO Absent Friends". God rest you Doc. You are missed.

I think it was about the 2nd or 3rd year we held CSA in Clarksville.

We have lost a truly good, interesting gentleman.

Murphy

To you and your family. Prayers for you all.

It was a privelage to know Doc, fairwell to a friend.John

Please accept my condolences. Doc bought a couple of guns from me a few years back and I greatly enjoyed our phone conversations while we were doing the deal. I'd never have guessed he wasn't in his 40s when we talked. God bless him and keep him.

John and Barbara Purcell, along with Linda and I. spent a wonderful evening out with Doc and his wife in Little Rock where doc was attending an outdoors writing convention.
Doc was a friend, and he will be missed.

Sorry for the loss to family and friends, and to the firearms world.

It was my very great privilege to have corresponded with Doc, if only about matters revolver related. He was a most learned gentleman, and I will always treasure a signed book he sent me with a very personal inscription. He was not just a master medic, author, and father, he was an excellent observer of the human heart as well.

He is missed.

Otony

My very limited dealings with him told me he was a fine man.

My heartfelt condolences. I was lucky enough to spend some time with Hank upstairs in his writers lair. We swapped sea stories and played a game of "did you know this guy?"

He used my Ithaca M-37 for an article he wrote and I gave him a picture of my great grand father getting out of a canoe with his 1886 winchester, picture taken about 1900. hank had it hanging upstairs.

It was my honor to know him.

Aaron my heart-felt condolences to your entire family.

An Irish proverb states it well:

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal."

May the rest of your days be filled with the memories of your father. And may we all lives well as he did so that we'll be ready when our turn comes to go.

Condolences to the family. He was a fine gentleman.

and for the loss to the Sixgun Heritage. Like Elmer and those gone past, he will live in his printed words, and the memories of those present.

Another good one gone too soon.

May he rest in God's care now.

In the early 2000s, I partnered with Doc to write a 92,000+ word manuscript for a probably-never-to-be-published Western novel based on an original idea of his: "The Six-Pointed Star, or Levy's Last Gamble," was its working title.

Took us almost a year and half to get through all of the drafts and we did it all through email correspondence and a few phone calls. We only met once,around Chapter 16, at a Pizza Hut in Seaford, Md. He traveled up from Virginia and I traveled down from South Jersey. He brought his favorite Colt Peacemaker with him, on featured in his books.

I know he shared with finished effort with a few of the people who post here regularly.

He was a heck of a guy. My own Dad was once a Bac Si too in 'Nam.

I will miss him. He was a talented writer and had a great imagination. A wonderful story teller.

Scribe

I bet he made a fine buddy to hang with. My condolences to his family

Doc was a class act... he shared his knowledge and experience with enthusiasm, in the spirit of brotherhood.

Any time I posted about Jewish holidays, he replied in Hebrew.

Really a neat guy, who will be missed by all of us.

When we'd met out West we bragged about how many blue crabs we could eat. We never got the chance to see who was the champ. There wasn't anyone like Doc...never was never will be. I'll miss him...................

Same here.