[GreaterPhilly] [NFBP-Talk] The news we have been anticipating

[Martha Moore]

This is such painful news. I did not know he was suffering. He was a guest speaker at the Michigan NFB conference the year I attended and his testimony was a highlight. 

My sympathies to the family. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 3, 2022, at 4:15 PM, Marsha Drenth via NFBP-Talk <nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>>> Joe Ruffalo, who served us as president for 27 years, died quietly
>>> early this morning following a multi-year battle with Metastatic
>>> Bladder cancer related to Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam
>>> War. Joe had been in hospice care and passed away in the  Bloomfield
>>> house where he grew up. Family members and friends were there to
>>> comfort him.
>>> 
>>> Joe had shared his journey with us and we send  our condolences to
>>> Joe's wife, Judy, and their sons Jim and Joey and their wives as well
>>> as sister Jane Degenshein, also a  leader in our National Federation
>>> of the Blind community and her husband Larry as well as other
>>> relatives and friends.
>>> 
>>> Funeral arrangements are  being finalized and I  will share them when
>>> complete. In the meantime, those who wish to honor Joe's memory may donate to the NFBNJ, the organization he said changed his life and
>>> which he shared fso generously with us for so many years.
>>> 
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