[NFB-NM] Fwd: [State-Affiliate-Leadership-List] The news we have been anticipating

[Adelmo Vigil]

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> From: Linda Melendez via State-Affiliate-Leadership-List <state-affiliate-leadership-list at nfbnet.org>
> Date: May 3, 2022 at 7:17:39 AM MDT
> To: NFB of New Jersey Internet Mailing List <nfbnj at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Linda Melendez <president at nfbnj.org>, State Affiliate Leadership List <state-affiliate-leadership-list at nfbnet.org>, NFB Chapter Presidents discussion list <chapter-presidents at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [State-Affiliate-Leadership-List] The news we have been anticipating
> Reply-To: State Affiliate Leadership List <state-affiliate-leadership-list at nfbnet.org>
> 
> 
> 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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