REMEMBERING DIDDY

She had such a short life - and such an unexpected ending.  The tribute below was copied from my blog "HOT COFFEE & KOOL JAZZ."  It also belongs here.

I think of sweet Diddy often.  Still, after all of these years.

sunday, october 19, 2008

RIP, DIDDY

Los Angeles Times, October 19, 1960
MISS DIDDY H. KAERGER

Funeral services for Miss Diddy H. Kaerger, 25, a World Airways stewardess who was among the 77 persons killed in an explosion of an airliner over Guam on Sept. 19, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in Grace Chapel, Inglewood Park Cemetery. Miss Kaerger, born in Los Angeles, lived in Castro Valley. She leaves her mother, Mrs. Martha Keller and a sister, Mrs. Louise Strange.

Diddy was one of my college roommates and a sorority sister at Pepperdine College. She was cute as a button, smart, funny and a friend to everyone. She graduated from college in 1957 and spent a couple of years teaching elementary school. Soon she decided teaching wasn't how she wanted to spend the rest of her life, so she became an airline stewardess.

Life plays tricks on us sometimes. As far as I am concerned, it was a dirty trick played on my friend Diddy.