Hello Everyone,

As you may know, I will be visiting Freddie's Crypt Friday June 22 on his Birthday. What I would love to know is:

What messages would you like for me to pass on to Freddie?

If I see any of his family members, what would you like for me to say and ask them?

If it is Mrs. Pruetzel herself, what would you most would love to know?

I have taken the day off from work to do this, I'm taking the poems, and I will read them to Freddie. I'm putting flowers and tons of kisses for everyone on his Crypt.

I am doing this because I'm in California, and if Freddie's Crypt was somewhere else I would hope that someone would do the same thing. If I see Mrs. Pruetzel, do you want me to give her your poems? Or any family member? Please let me know because I'm doing this for everyone not just for myself.

Many thanks and love to all
DE DE

By the way, I forgot to mention I will be taking lots and lots of pictures. If I see one of Freddie's family members and take pictures, would anyone like to have one?

Love Always
De De

Just tell them they have my respect. Tell Freddie that i just met him but i miss him and he was a comedy genius.

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That Freddie is STILL loved so much by so many people and that we miss him dearly http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/frown.gif

De De! Tell Freddie that he is still loved and missed after all these years............. De De Please kiss his plaque for me too! Tell him I will always love him............

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Let him know he is remembered like he wanted to be,and that he is still famous.If you see any of his family let them know about all the sites on the web for him.Freddie will never be forgotten!

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De De,
Please let Freddie and his family know that he is still remembered and loved and very much missed. Let them know that they are in our prayers each and everyday. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

DeDe thank you for your generosity. If you see Freddie's Mom, please convey to her how much I remember her, think of her and pray for her daily. She did a splendid job and has a great son. Please tell Freddie how much he is and always will be loved, missed and admired. His comedic genius is awesome. His smile, laughter and sensitivity is legendary. Our hearts are broken from missing him and we will never be the same since he left us. Please let him and his family know how special and wonderful he is. He is still inspiring people all across the nation as evidenced by these websites, novels, stories, and poems all being written by those who love him. Please tell Freddie that on his birthday and everyday he is thought of, remembered, and missed with tears in my eyes, pain in my heart and a longing in my soul.
I deeply appreciate your giving a kiss for me at the crypt. GOD Bless You Always.
FREDDIE FOREVER!

Hey everyone,

I'm going to put what everyone just said on the single card for Freddie the way Cheryl said she would love for it to be. When we return home I will tell everyone what happened.

By the way it is an honor for me to do this for everyone, it is so much love on this board for Freddie. I promise not to let (mabel) get close to Freddie (LOL)(LOL).

I hope I`m not to late DeDe, but tell Freddie I love and miss him,and please kiss the crypt for me.

Dear DeDe,
Please give Freddie my love,that I appreciate all the laughter he brought to our lives and that he is missed.
If you see his mother,greet her too and yes definately give her my poem,as it is from my heart to all who love and miss Freddie.
Thanks a bunch
Joy

Dear DeDe,
Please give Freddie my love,that I appreciate all the laughter he brought to our lives and that he is missed.
If you see his mother,greet her too and yes definately give her my poem,as it is from my heart to all who love and miss Freddie.
Thanks a bunch
Joy

De De - please do what you feel is appropriate at the time and with the situation as it arises. You are a very sweet, loving and smart woman who I trust will do the right thing for us all. Thank you for taking a part of all of our hearts with you. Bless Freddie and bless you.

Thank you so much DeDe for doing this for all of us who cannot be there. It means so much to us all. You are very sweet and caring. Please tell Freddie for me that I send my love and that he is missed very much. But most of all he should know that I would have cared when he was on this earth!

dede Let Freddie know that he lives on 4 ever in our hearts. Tell his mom that even after all these years we still love her son like it was yesterday. Please give his plaque a kiss for me and tell him I still love him Thanks I really appreciate it Linda
Also please take some pictures too Thanks a bunch

Hello everyone,

I just got home from work and I am overwhelmed at the love for Freddie on this board. I tried to send a small message from work, but I was too busy to say how I feel.

As I write this I am in tears, I'm crying so hard because all of your are so sweet, loving and caring. Ed, Karen JennyLee, Hillbilly, ChicosLadyFair. Atlangel God bless you also, Anna, no sweetie it is not too late. Joy you are welcome a bunch (LOL) Catcopy, my my you touched my heart, just like Joy, you are welcome a bunch also. (LOL) Peko you are a sweetie yourself. Hoganite you are most welcome. These are the only names I see so far. If you have not added your name please do so, because I am all too happy to do this, this is for Freddie, to show him the love you have for him.

Do not be afraid to ask me, because the answer is YES. I have a heart of gold and I'm a very very nice person so all you have to do is ask.

God bless all of you beautiful, sweet, loving people.
DE DE

De De, if it is still not too late I want to add my two cents' worth to the thoughts you will be expressing to Freddie when you visit him. Please thank him for me that he has become my inspiration and a true angel in my life, and tell him I will always love him for that and for his inner and outer beauty as well. Thanx mucho, De De!

Hey Mariposa,

I will be too happy to write what you said on a label that is attached to a rose. This was Cheryl's Idea to do it this way.

The more people that give me their name to show Freddie how much he is loved and missed the better. You are so welome and thank you so much for your sweet words for him.

God bless
De De http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

Hello, Hello.

It is getting close to Friday, so far I have a poem from Joy and one from ChicosFairLady.
Is there anyone else that has written a poem and would like for me to add to the portfolio?

I will allow myself enough time because I'm going to UCLA and take pictures of the outside, inside, and the 6th floor where Freddie expired. I will also take picture of the Hotel where the accident occured.

If someone thinks of anything else please let me know, I have flowers, and two candles, a number four and a number seven.

If someone wishes to add their web site address to the portfolio please leave it here and I will add it, let's all pray that I see his Mother, we have plans to get there early. Please give me your final imputs because tomorrow is the last day, I want to have everything ready.

Love Peace and Happiness
DE DE

Heiio again everyone

I just made a post letting everyone know it's time to fianlize everything and it post under Tracy's name and I did not push submit.

So that was my post NOT Tracy's
sorry but I do not know what happened, it was in my name but came up Tracy.

Hi,
Well today is the last day, so if you have not given me your name and something to say to Freddie you still have time.

I will not be on the computer after 7:00pm California's time, which is 9:00 in some places and 10:00 EST time.

Here is an update:
I have two poems, one from Joy and one from ChicosLadyFair.

I have all the names of everyone that is sending a message to Freddie on a flower each.

What about web site address? If you want me to include your web address let me know, you have eleven more hours to get this to me.

Friday night I will tell everyone about my visit.

Thanks De De

Hi De De,

Could you please add my essay? Thanks a bunch!

"Why do we care?"

Before the Iran hostage situation, before the Gary Gilmore execution, before Persian Gulf and sex in the oval office, there was Freddie Prinze. He was a star in our lives for three years beginning in 1974. I was 12 at the time he
made his television debut.

In the beginning I found the show extremely funny. I'd already been watching Sanford & Son, and ranked that show higher than some of my other favorites: All in the Family, Good Times, Welcome Back Kotter and Barney
Miller.

Chico and the Man never quite fit a special category for me like the others did. The show came on at 8:30 Friday nights, and when I became a teenager I chose sleepover parties and movies to Friday night TV.

But when Freddie shot himself in January 1977, something in my unfocused, adolescent mind jumped to attention. Freddie now became a human being, not just an image that flashed across the living room once a week. He
had problems, like me, and he chose to deal with them in the most punishing way.

I listened for a day-and-a-half to radio and television reports. I recorded them on my old-fashioned tape recorder, a bulky Panasonic cassette with "stop" and "fast-forward" buttons the size of your fingers.

I clipped the first short newspaper article, a six-or-seven paragraph Associate Press story with the headline, "TV Actor Critical After Suicide Try." In the hours after the shooting, little or no information was given to the press. The
article stated simply, "The shooting is an apparent suicide attempt because a gun was found near the body." No mention of Dusty Snyder or Carol Novak or Quuaaludes. They did cite that Freddie had parted ways with his wife,
Kathy, and that he had to be in court in February for a drugs-and-driving violation.

I kept thinking that if he would wake up from his coma, he would realize what a big mistake he had just made. That night at the very end of an NBC news update, Chuck Scarborough said, "And Freddie Prinze remains in critical
condition after shooting himself in the head. Doctors at the UCLA medical center said 'Prinze tolerated surgery well,' but had suffered "severe brain damage."

Then Saturday afternoon, the guy on 1010 WINS, an all news station out of New York City, said somberly: "Freddie Prinze DIED of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head." That was all I needed to hear.

I ran to my mother, who was cleaning the bathroom. "Did you hear? Did you hear?" I shouted.

My mother nodded her head. "He had to have been crazy," she said. "To put a gun to his head and do that to himself. He was nuts."

Later that night, on the six o'clock news (ABC affiliate in Manhattan), Roger Grimbsy confirmed what I'd heard on the radio. He said, "The young New Yorker took his life." Freddie was from New York? I didn't even know that.
While I grew up in the lush green suburbs of the city, Freddie grew up in Spanish Harlem. He got beat up from kids for his lunch money. He wasn't into athletics in school.

I saw parallels in everyhing in our lives except for two things: poor city life and age. Freddie was older than me and I thought of him then as an adult capable of making his own decisions.

The years wore on, and I never did hear about Chico reruns, sometimes would check the newspaper TV listing to see if any of the cable channels were carrying them. None of them were, ever. Sanford was on, so was All in the
Family, and even Welcome Back, Kotter (which at this point had become horribly dated and stale).

The tape recordings I made got lost over the years. My life evolved into college and several relationships; newspaper reporting in sleepy little towns like Lychburg Virginia and Bradenton, Florida.

But for 25 years I never stopped thinking about Freddie or what he had done to himself.

I reached the age of 22, same age as Freddie, and began to realize that people still thought of me as a kid. And I felt like a kid. Then, when I turned 32, I realized that people young as Freddie was when he died, sometimes are
not fully grown inside. I began to realize what a loss there really was.

And to see him again, especially when he is in his element, is to witness both talent and tragedy intermingled with a warm tale of an old white man and his young Spanish helper.

You can't ask for more from Hollywood.

-- Tony Attrino

DeDe, please can you take my poem titled, "I Want". It is under the topic "Favorite Song/Sing to Little Freddie" If you page back, it is showing a last date posted on 06/16/2001. I would surely appreciate it. Thank-You.

DeDe - Don't forget to write a big "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on a big cardboard card (a card similar to what a fan holds when seeing WWF or a baseball game) from all of us here! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/biggrin.gif A Million Thanks to you and Tracy! Sniff............

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Hey JennyLee, I bought a birthday card for Freddie and I put everyones name on it, with cute little words such as, " Okay you're 47 now I bet you think your're grown now huh?"

Hey Croiter, you know I will be happy to print it out and add it to the portfolio, I will talk to you when I return okay. (smile)

Hey Atlangel, that is so cute what you wrote,
wouldn't it be something if Freddie Jr. is the one to be there, and I give him the portfolio with the sweet songs for him?

I have a few more hours and I have not heard from Cheryl.

Hey Cheryl, I have your name on the list and I put the petition on it, but I want to hear from you fist to make sure it's okay for me to do that, and to see if you have anything special you want me to do or say.

I still have about 6 more hours to go before I shut down my system and head out for my big day tomorrow. Right now I have to run to the computer store and buy more ink for my printer, it will only take me about 30 mins. to do that

p.s Anita, Liz, Maria, and JL I will keep an eye on Mabel for you.(LOL)(LOL)
a.k.a (Tracy) (LOL)

DeDe, A million thanks to you and Tracy!
(sniffles) http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif
FREDDIE FOREVER!!

dede when you sign my name and put my stuff on it please sign love Linda h from Boston Thanks for doing this for us. Your a sweet person. Thanks for coming back to the site. If everyone in the world was nice as you the world would be a better place to live. what time is the candle vigil Iwould like to participate.

Hey Hoganite,

Thank you so much, I will be more than happy to put your name (Linda from Boston) on the birthday card I bought. I'm happy to be back on this site, I have learned the hard way to keep my personal life to myself, and not tell who I have met, If I had known in advance that I would have been treated bad for meeting Freddie I would have never made it known that I had met him. I had to get my feelings hurt first before I learned. I hope Mrs. Pruetzel is there I can't wait to tell her how sweet her son was to me.

Thanks
De De

DeDE I enjoyed your reading about meetings with Freddie. Its nice knowing I can talk to someone who personally knew him. Dont take their critism to heart. They are probably jeleous because you knew him and they didnt. I know this famous persons mom personally. I tell stories about her son and her and I also get the same reaction sometimes. Its not you dee its them. even this persons mom told me stories how she told people that she is so ans so mom and people didnt believe her. And thats his ow mom. Go figure. sorry for rambling just trying to make a point. thanks Linda

Okay everyone this is it(smile)

Tracy and I will be walking out of our house at 8:30 tonight PST time.

We will have a full day, so Pray that someone from the family will be there. We will be there when the doors first opens. After we leave the Crypt, we will go down Wilshire Bl to the Hotel and then head out to UCLA. At times like this I am happy to be from Los Angeles and know my way around, I don't live in Los Angeles but I'm from there. We live in California, but Los Angeles will always be home for us.

And please do not forget to light your candle at the time JennyLee told us. I will take an extra candle for those who is unable to light one at the time we are suppose to.

God bless each of us and I will announce when we return.

Forever My Love
DE DE

Sorry I am so late seeing this but the stupid phone co cut us off due to a billing snafu (Not our fault) so I was all of yesterday with no phone, no internet. YUCK! I am so ticked off at the phone co for causing me to miss stuff for a whole day. Even Arlo wrote on his message boards while I was gone. LOL! I had meant to write a BD message to Freddie for De-De to read to him & was gonna do it earlier this week but was tired & decided I'd do it Thurs nite. If I'd known the phone was gonna be out I'd have done it tired or not. It's okay to put the petition & whatever you want in my name on there! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

We can't wait to read of your adventures on the trip! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif Have fun! & Tell him happy BD for us & that altho we watched him on CATM in the 70's from the first episode onwards we didn't get into him untill the TVLAND re-runs & we are so glad to knwo him now. & Tell him that we care about him & if I'd known him I would've cared & tried to hlep him. & We love ya too -- the Lattin Prinze of Comedy! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

We are back

this is my second time trying to post to say we are back from visiting Freddie

Welcome Back DeDe and Tracy how was it?

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Hi Ed,

It was very emotional, sad, very mixed emotions. Tracy took a picture of me kissing his Crypt, and a picture of me pointing to his name on the Crypt.

I kissed the Crypt for every name on this board. I gave it a kiss and said this is from Cheryl, kissed it again and said this is from Jennylee, Joy, Mariposa, ChicosLadyFair, Anna, karen, Catcopy, Hoganite, Atlangel, and so on, and so on, I named EVERYONE, for the guys I just said hello, no kisses. (smile)

Thanks! Wer appreciate it! Did you get to meet his Mom or any other relatives? We'd love to know! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

You're back! Tell us more............

Thank-you Dede for doing that for me,that has made me very happy.

Dede, Thank-you so much for kissing the crypt for me,you`ve made me very happy.

I don't know when (if ever) that I've read so many lovely poems and tributes as I have read on this message board lately. So many beautiful memories and words were written that I'm sure came genuinely from your hearts. I'm also glad to know that we have someone like DeDe and Tracy who are willing to deliver these special contributions to that special person we all love and miss dearly. DeDe you and Tracy are our connection to F.P. right now and I'm sure everyone agrees with me that you have been an answer to our prayers with all you've done to represent us on Freddie's birthday. If any of us could have been there with you, we would have, gladly. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif
I'm anxious to see your pictures. Are you going to post them on your web-site or where
will they be?

Good morning Everyone,

We just woke up this is that PST time again (LOL) When we first got there in a taxi, we stopped at the information booth to ask where is the "Court of Remebrance"? That is where Freddie is. The lady told us to go to tha office.

We then went to the office to find out where it was, she ask me if we were related or friends, and I told her that I knew Freddie and we were there for his Birthday.

She gave us a map to where the court was, she high-lighted it with a yellow marker, so we have the map to put up also for everyone to see. The place is SUPER HUGE. let me sent this and I will continue.

Okay,
as we started walking down that long drive, in the Hot Hot Hot sun we got to a point where I stopped and said I am tired the heat was awful, we live on the waters of California I am not use to that heat anymore.

I saw a limo coming in our direction so I ask the guy which one was the Court of Remembrance? He pointed to where it was, We looked up there and said "way up there" so I ask him if he would drive us, and he said oh yes and he did. I gave him so money to take us and he did not want to take, but I made him take it. Once we got out of the limo we looked and saw thousands and thousands of sites, We walked up the stairs not knowing where it was and passed by thousands of sites.

We turned to the right and Tracy was looking on the wall to the left and I was looking on the right. We both said at the same time "there's Freddie" he was on my side, on the right. He is outside not inside. The Crypt is not at the bottom, it is in the middle. There was a white marble bench in the middle of the walls.

We put our bags down on it and took out the candles and the camera. Mr. Pruetzel it to the left of Freddie and there is a space on top of Freddie, I think is going to be for mrs. Pruetzel. I am going to send this and continue

The first thing I did was touched Freddie's name on the Crypt and said "once again Freddie I am walking to you just like when we first met."

I then told him that I forgive him for getting married on my Birthday, which is October 13, I also told Freddie I forgive you for what you have done on her Birthday, and what is it about Birthdays?

After that Tracy and I was telling him all about this board, and everyone on it. It was about 8:30am and we had 30 mins to go before lighting the candles. I read the poems, Tracy told him about Dating Freddie, Role play, Hubba Hubba, all about the new web sites, how people are having dreams about him and how they wish they could have met him.

I told him that the ladies on this board are having a good time talking about sleeping with him, having babies, his hair, hands, and his eyes. I read all of the messages that everyone told me to read. I have left before I heard from Cheryl, but I took a chance and told him about her and the petition she started to keep the show on TV.

To humor ourselves just a little, we told him that Ed Brown has a son on the board name Ed Brown Jr. I am sending this and will continue.

Hello everyone. This message is directed towards DeDe. I've been reading all of your posts for quite awhile and I must say it disturbs me that your post's DeDe are incomplete. I was just wondering if there was a particular reason as to why you don't post the entire story at once? This may not be the case but I'm inclined to feel as though I'm being toyed with considering the manner in which you are posting something of such importance to people's hearts and state of mind. Please take no offense and know that I mean no disrespect. I'm simply curious as to your reasons if there are any. Thank you.

Hello SacredEmotion,

Let me first start out by saying welcome to the board.

I am sorry that the way I post is giving you a hard time. I would never toy with anyones feelings.

You said you have been reading my posts for sometime. Well you must have noticed that I sometimes say "you may see this twice" for some reason when I type a lot a message will pop up and say Do you wish to continue?

To make a long story short I have to do it this way or not at all. I am truly sorry if it bothers you. Because it bothers me also. If everyone wants me to stop, I will. I never hurt people at all.

Welcome and thank you asking
De De

DeDe please post more, I'm dying to read every detail!!!! No matter how many installments it takes.

Hello everyone,

If I have hurt any of you by posting little by little I am sorry. I live here in California and it cost us $400.00 to get there and to make sure Freddie had a Birthday he will never forget, from all of us on this board. I would hate to think of what it would cost someone who does not live here, to even get to California. So I never wanted my post to sound as if I was toying with anyone feelings. Do not worry I will tell you all what happened, I will just do it on my Web Site, Therefore if a person know how I post here then I will not have to worry about them reading it over there.

Love always De De

We understand about your posts. I know it's ahrd to write alot of stuff all at one time. That's why my CATM/Freddie site is not finished LOL! Can't wait to read the rest of your story. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

Ok Dede I`ll meet you over there.

Thank you for taking your time to do this for us. although I was late in posting a message for you for Freddie . I know Freddie Is loved by everyone here who visits and posts messages. I hope your visit with Freddie was a special moment for you and for us.

Dont worry DeDe i love your posts and have no problem with how you post. Dont listen to what someone else thinks about you cause they dont know the real you. You are such a nice person and that is all that counts. I look foward to reading about you and Tracy's trip and seeing all the wonderful pics you took on your website.



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GET OUT OF MY GARAGE!!!

I love the installments. I think it's cool. I'm not at all hurt. They're like cliffhangers.

By the way, my name real name is Katie and Chico and the man is one of my favorite shows. It's right up there with Welcome Back Kotter. this is a really cool message board.

I think it's really cool that you and Tracy went to Freddie's Crypt. I wish that I had remembered to post my message to Freddie.


Well anyway, keep up the excellent work.

Hello luvinjuan,

Thank you for you sweet message, don't worry, Tracy and I will be going back very soon. Just keep checking and we will be very happy to send your message on the next trip, the more we have the more Freddie will know how much he is so loved and missed.

Thanks for writing
De De

Thank You, DeDe and Tracy for making the trip to Freddie and delivering all the love from the people here-it meant alot to me. I wish I could go to visit Freddie's crypt, but I live in Kansas and am too short on time and money right now to go.

I didn't even get to log onto the message board on his birthday because my sister in law's wedding was that day. I had to go into work, then after work, rush around and get everybody ready (my young children were flower girl and ringbearer & hubby was best man) Didn't get home 'till around midnight!

I did light a candle for Freddie that night and I was thinking about him all day--it was such a beautiful day; lots of love in the air and it couldn't have been a more lovely day for a birthday. (or a wedding!) And I was thinking of your trip to see Freddie.

I'm glad you got back safely and I thank you again for telling him how much he is loved by all of us! He's smiling from heaven!