[Nebraska-Students] FW: The news we have been anticipating

[Maura Loberg]

So sad to hear this. I met him at that state convention. Such a genuine, nice guy. Rest in peace, brother!

Maura J. Loberg
Nebraska Wesleyan University, class of 2024
President
| Nebraska Association of Blind Students


> On May 3, 2022, at 9:29 AM, Jamie K. Richey via Nebraska-Students <nebraska-students at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Good Morning All,
> 
> 
> 
>  Below is sad news of Joe Ruffalo’s passing.  Joe attended our 2015 NFB of Nebraska state convention and was a great leader in our movement.  To listen to his banquet speech from that convention click
> 
> Here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFjx9sw4EHI> 
> 
>  Please keep Joe’s family in your thoughts and prayers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From Linda Melendez
> 
> 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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