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I'm ashamed I didn't know about Timothy Hart, given the foundational work he's done. Glad Fogus wrote this.
Likewise, especially given my recent interest in Lisp. I actually own a paper copy of the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual, thanks to Baltimore's excellent free book exchange [1]; I haven't cracked it yet in any serious way, but this news might push it up my stack a bit, especially since I also now know it's possible to emulate an IBM 7094 on which to actually run Lisp 1.5. (I've also thought about implementing a Lisp 1.5 interpreter on Common Lisp, but I'm afraid that's going to have to wait until I have a bit more clue about both of those languages and about the differences between them.)

[1] http://www.bookthing.org

Surprised he doesn't have a Wikipedia article. Anyone experienced in Wikipedia's little ways want to write one?
Working on it. Really solid sources are a bit sparse, though. It's one of those odd cases, which I think are both problematic but interesting for Wikipedia: someone who is clearly notable, but proper bios on him don't really exist, just scattered mentions that need to be tied together. It's a lot easier to write bios on people who already have other bios written on them (since that solves the problem of what to cite pretty easily).
The fact that he has books with his name on it should help.
Rest in peace and condolences to the whole family..