[MN-at-Large] NFB of ND Member and Past President Passes Away Peacefully

[David Andrews]

This is sad news indeed.  Duane was a recent addition to our 
Minnesota at large chapter...

Dave





>To: <nd-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:09:36 -0500
>Subject: [ND-Talk] NFB of ND Member and Past President Passes Away Peacefully
>From: Milton Ota via ND-Talk <nd-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Cc: mota1252 at gmail.com
>
>To All:
>
>I write this with a very heavy heart as I received the following 
>news via Facebook and a friend sending text messages.
>
>Prayers for the Iverson family:
>Duane collapsed on Monday evening  from a major cardiac arrest and 
>when they got him to the hospital there we as no neurologic 
>activity.  So they flew him to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester 
>MN.  They put him in a medical coma because he kept having frontal 
>lobe seizures and they feared there would be brain damage. They 
>started to bring him out last night but they waited to completely 
>bring him out till after Jonathan (his son) got there last night. 
>After bringing him out of the coma the neurologist told them this 
>morning that there wasn't any brain activity and is still seizing 
>from the frontal lobe (which is what controls your personality and 
>cognitive functions). They decided to take him off life support to 
>pass naturally. After they took him off the support he 
>was  breathing on his own and his heart was  beating in its 
>own.  They told them it can take a couple hours or a few days. They 
>then had the intubation tube removed and let him pass peacefully and 
>without pain. He passed away at 2:20 this afternoon. (July 17, 2019)
>
>Sad but know that he is the kingdom
>
>Funeral arrangements have not been announced and when I hear more I 
>will post them here.
>
>Milton Ota, President
>National Federation of the Blind of North Dakota
>Web: <https://nfbnd.org/>https://nfbnd.org/
>4273 Coventry Dr., S., Unit E
>Fargo, ND 58104-4498
>(701) 731-0511 (Cell)
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>
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