Many of you knew Johnny Hudspath aka Squelchdog through this site. I am proud to call him my friend, and I know many of you feel the same way. Johnny died earlier this year, at the young age of 50 years old.

Our friendship began 12 years ago after I sold him a bunch of minis through Bloomilk.com. He had a lot going against him – an unsteady string of difficult, odd-houred positions, chronic pain and bad dreams from his military service, health problems in his family. But he was always cheerful in our correspondence. He sent me advice by email for counting change in high school after I expressed nervousness being a cashier at a grocery store. He gave me $50 as a graduation present, the largest present I’ve ever gotten from someone I’d never met in person. He joined my fantasy baseball league, and we ended up becoming friends on Facebook where I enjoyed his irreverent humor that combined military training/cynicism, his loving wife, his 2 bulldogs, baseball and all things Star Wars. I almost saw John in person for the first time in 2020, but he had to back out of the trip because of an increase in Covid cases. He kept emailing me about how was going to create terrain for his minis collection (I don’t know how far he got). He passed away on January 7, 2021 (I didn't find out until several weeks later). May the Force be With You Johnny!

Cheers, David (aka shatterpoint7)

A memorial fund to benefit Johnny’s widow Heike:
https://gofund.me/d45f785f

His obituary:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/timesunion-albany/name/john-hudspath-obituary?id=5060303

I did not have the pleasure of playing against him, but traded with him and it was always great.
Here here

So sad to hear this, I had no idea he had passed on.

John was an awesome person, I met him on here back in 2009 when I was deployed to Afghanistan and we were essentially pen pals on Bloomilk the entire time while I was overseas. I had a really rough tour especially towards the end of it and he helped encourage me through that time as a fellow veteran and as a brother in Christ. Even at my worst moments I would manage to get online and see a friendly message waiting in my inbox full of encouragement, jokes and Star Wars/military conversation. We had many good chats over the years even though we messaged more infrequently as time went on. Last I heard from him was in September of last year with a life update that I responded to and never heard back from, and now I know why. A hard loss for the world, our community and his family, and I’ll be sure to donate towards his widow Heike.

He was a true and good friend, brother and veteran and he will be missed and remembered. God bless your family brother and thank you for helping me through the hardest part of my life. You will not be forgotten.


(Also does anyone know how best to get in touch with his wife/family? I wanted to offer my condolences.)

I too traded with Squelchdog. May the force be with him. Rest well.