In Memoriam
Theo "Sunny" Cade
(1943-2024)
NEFA #002

A Tribute
by Steve Hartwell, NEFA #003

I first met Sunny in 1987, after a friend called about a newspaper article he read in the Worcester Telegram about a guy with a disc golf course in his back yard in Princeton, Mass. I called him up, he invited my wife and I over for a round, and the rest is history. He, along with several other disc enthusiasts and myself, went on to found NEFA, the New England Frisbee Association (Frisbee became Flying Disc a few years later) in the summer of 1988.

Continued...

Worcester Telegram article
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GenealogyBank.com, Worcester Telegram, Worcester, MA, 4 May 1987, p. 2.

Photographs

"On to the next hole!" - with his home-made disc cart, at an informal tournament in Millis, MA - early 1990s

With Davis Johnson and Rick Williams at his 50th birthday celebration, August 4, 1993, in Princeton, MA

Freestyle team - with Greg Black and Dan "Stork" Roddick at WMC 1996, Borderland State Park, Easton, MA

Telling frisbee tales at WMC 1996

With fellow disc golfers at his backyard course in Princeton, MA - early 1990s

Putting on one of his backyard baskets