Jamie Hartman
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| Name: | Mary Lou Hartman |
| Alias(es): | Jamie Hartman |
| Type: | fan writer |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: DS9 |
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Jamie Hartman was a fan active in the Star Trek: DS9 fandom in the 1990s. She was a fan writer and founded and edited The Cardassian Inquisitor, the newsletter of the Official Marc Alaimo Fan Club, [1] which is now defunct.
Jamie passed away in her home in Astoria, Oregon, on January 15, 2001. [2]
On January 22, 2001, Heather Cook wrote:
I'll miss Jamie's no-nonsense attitude, and her great sense of humor. One of the great things about the 'Net is that you get to meet people that you'd never connect with in your everyday life, and Jamie was one of those people. I'm glad I got to know her, even a little. You'll be missed, woman...
tod-hollykim remembers her on LiveJournal:
I'm not sure actually when I met Jamie Hartman. At least not on line.We were both fans of Marc Alaimo, the actor who played Gul Dukat on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I was just getting on line and had only a WebTV. She and I had also met Jeannie Fudulla through his fan club.
She was the oldest of the three of us, but we hit it off right away. Jamie lived in Hawaii, Jeannie in upstate New York, and I lived on Long Beach Island, NJ.
Right about that time, the then president of Marc's fan club had to bow out of running due to life in general and offered it up to us to run. Jeannie was going to be the president, I was in charge of the charity fund raising, and Jamie became the club's news letter editor and website master. And we were to met face to face at the club's lunch in Anaheim, CA, just down the block from Disneyland (no lie!)
So, we flew in to LA. Both Jamie and Jeannie could head out there before me, so I didn't meet up with them until I hit the hotel. They had headed to dinner and were waiting for me at the restaurant. I had no idea what any of the ladies looked like, but I found them with no problem!
We talked about the lunch the next day, Marc and his acting. And tales of the area. It seemed Jamie had grown up in Los Angeles, actually in the area around what is LAX now. It wasn't then. She told us stories of Hollywood, too. One of the things she had done was be in the audience at the very first taping of I Love Lucy that had a live audience!
She also told us about the protests when they plowed the neighborhoods around LAX down. That the song "They Paved Paradise" was a protest song about that.
We had a great time the next day. And the day after that, we drove up north of LA to have lunch at Marc's restaurant (he was part owner) and she gave a bit of a tour as she drove. Even took us to the beach, so we could see that, yeah, it really looked like that.
Sometime after that, she had a falling out with her family in Hawaii and she moved to Astor, Oregon. She loved it there. But was still as crusty as over. She worked for a bit on a local radio station. Played bingo with her neighbors every Monday in the building she lived in.
Jamie passed away in January, 2001. Part of the reason I don't that year. She had a heart attacked while reading. When she didn't show up for bingo that Monday night, a friend checked on her and found her.
Her family didn't want or couldn't help with her funeral costs. So we, her friends, got together to have her cremated as she wanted and her ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
I miss her a lot. And very time I hear "They Paved Paradise", I think of her. And imagine that she did manage to get into a fish of some sort. And is still waiting for Marc Alaimo to go swiming in the ocean so she can swim up to him and bite him on the butt.
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References
- ^ Official Marc Alaimo Fan Club (offline, archived)
- ^ See: In Memory of Jamie (offline, archived)
- ^ See: In Memory of Jamie (dreambook entry) (offline, archived)
- ^ See: Jamie Hartman, Archived version