John Fitzsimmons of Boone, a longtime member of the Lincoln Highway Association, died Saturday.
He had a blog he occasionally posted to from 2016 to 2021. He billed himself as a “vagabond road artist”. I last saw him at the Lincoln Highway conference this summer in Ogallala, Nebraska, where his drawings were set up in the “book room”.
No services are scheduled, according to an e-mail sent to Iowa LHA members.
“As you pass a painted telephone pole or see a marker for the Lincoln Highway, as you drive by those shining spots of historical curiosity, and as you meet your own cast of characters in your own journeys, keep the vagabond road artist in mind,” reads one line in his obituary.