[NFBV-Potomac-Announce] Sad News: Joe Ruffalo

[Christine Grassman]

From Linda Melendez, NFB of NJ President:
>> 
>> 
>> 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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