<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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. <div><br></div><div>My sympathies to the family. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 3, 2022, at 4:15 PM, Marsha Drenth via NFBP-Talk <nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joe Ruffalo, who served us as president for 27 years, died quietly</span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4">early this morning following a multi-year battle with Metastatic<br style="">Bladder cancer related to Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam<br style="">War. Joe had been in hospice care and passed away in the Bloomfield<br style="">house where he grew up. Family members and friends were there to<br style="">comfort him.<br style=""><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Joe had shared his journey with us and we send our condolences to<br style="">Joe's wife, Judy, and their sons Jim and Joey and their wives as well<br style="">as sister Jane Degenshein, also a leader in our National Federation<br style="">of the Blind community and her husband Larry as well as other<br style="">relatives and friends.<br style=""><br style="">Funeral arrangements are being finalized and I will share them when<br style="">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<br style="">which he shared fso generously with us for so many years.</font><div style=""></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div></div><div dir="auto"></div><font color="#888888"></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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