Good afternoon,
I just read where former Net 2320 sysop and hub Allen Prunty has passed away. Allen took over as hub after Janis moved out of state. I knew him from back in the late 80s or early 90s when we were both sysops in the GT Power Network, Net 010 in Louisville.

It looks like he also wrote/maintained a page or two on the synchronet wiki page.

Thought I would pass along the news just in case there were any sysops left who remembered him.

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Re: Allen Prunty
By: Dumas Walker to All on Tue Nov 25 2025 01:06 pm

I just read where former Net 2320 sysop and hub Allen Prunty has passed

Sorry to hear. :-(
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Re: Allen Prunty
By: Dumas Walker to All on Tue Nov 25 2025 01:06 pm

Good afternoon,
I just read where former Net 2320 sysop and hub Allen Prunty has
passed away. Allen took over as hub after Janis moved out of state.
I knew him from back in the late 80s or early 90s when we were both
sysops in the GT Power Network, Net 010 in Louisville.

It looks like he also wrote/maintained a page or two on the
synchronet wiki page.

oh that's too bad. he was with fidonet way in the beginning.

i dont see an obituary but i see his mother posted on his fb

https://www.facebook.com/alprunty

sad that she outlived her son.
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Re: Allen Prunty
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Tue Nov 25 2025 10:10 pm

Re: Allen Prunty
By: Dumas Walker to All on Tue Nov 25 2025 01:06 pm

Good afternoon, I just read where former Net 2320 sysop and hub Allen Prunty has passed away. Allen took over as hub after Janis moved
out of state. I knew him from back in the late 80s or early 90s when
we were both sysops in the GT Power Network, Net 010 in Louisville.

It looks like he also wrote/maintained a page or two on the
synchronet wiki page.

oh that's too bad. he was with fidonet way in the beginning.

i dont see an obituary but i see his mother posted on his fb

https://www.facebook.com/alprunty

Looks like he was in the hospital for a few months and had a leg amputated.
He was doing prettty bad for a long time and since september was expecting to die.
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Re: Allen Prunty
By: Digital Man to Dumas Walker on Tue Nov 25 2025 16:21:07

I just read where former Net 2320 sysop and hub Allen Prunty has passed

Sorry to hear. :-(

He had been having a lot of health issues for a while. :(
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I just read where former Net 2320 sysop and hub Allen Prunty has
passed away. Allen took over as hub after Janis moved out of state.
I knew him from back in the late 80s or early 90s when we were both
sysops in the GT Power Network, Net 010 in Louisville.

It looks like he also wrote/maintained a page or two on the
synchronet wiki page.

oh that's too bad. he was with fidonet way in the beginning.

i dont see an obituary but i see his mother posted on his fb

https://www.facebook.com/alprunty

I think he was near my age, maybe a couple of years older. When we were younger, I thought he might be a hypocondriac but he did ultimately have a
few health issues that eventually got pretty bad.

I don't really know when he got into FIDO as I mostly remembered him back
then as a fellow GT Power sysop -- that was back when porting FTN to GT
would have been difficult. He later became my FIDO hub sometime well after Janis left the state. I took over the local net after he disappeared
several years ago.

sad that she outlived her son.

I was not sure if the post I saw was from his Mom or someone else. A
mutual friend shared it with me. That is sad but happens more often than I think we like to think about.


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i dont see an obituary but i see his mother posted on his fb

https://www.facebook.com/alprunty

Looks like he was in the hospital for a few months and had a leg amputated. He was doing prettty bad for a long time and since september was expecting to die.

I thought he did have an amputation but didn't want to mention that less I
was confusing him with someone else. Too many people near my age, or not
much older, having trouble to keep track of them all. :(


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Re: Allen Prunty
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Wed Nov 26 2025 10:02 am

I thought he did have an amputation but didn't want to mention
that less I was confusing him with someone else. Too many people
near my age, or not much older, having trouble to keep track of them
all. :(

well if you have diabetes and you aren't taking care of it, you face amputation and death. there's no way out of it, people don't get lucky.
I think denial and stubbornness plays into it as well.
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I thought he did have an amputation but didn't want to mention
that less I was confusing him with someone else. Too many people
near my age, or not much older, having trouble to keep track of them
all. :(

well if you have diabetes and you aren't taking care of it, you face amputation and death. there's no way out of it, people don't get lucky.
I think denial and stubbornness plays into it as well.

No doubt.


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