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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am so sorry to read this. Joe was a truly amiable person, always willing to lend his knowledge of blindness issues, the federation and the IDB to those of us less informed than he. May the memories<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>He has left behind comfort them, and may his soul rest in peace.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bitrus<o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Tall-Corn <tall-corn-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Van Gorp via Tall-Corn<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 26, 2023 7:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> NFBI Listserv <tall-corn@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Scott Van Gorp <svangorp@nfbi.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [Tall-Corn] Sad news from the National Federation of the Blind of Iowa<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good Evening Federation Family:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is with great sorrow that I write to you this evening to announce that Joe Van Lent, a long-time Federationist, BEP/Randolph Shepherd vendor, and former Iowa Commission for the Blind board member, passed away on Wednesday evening, January 25th. Services will be held in Des Moines on April 15, 2023, and we will share full details for those later. For now, let’s keep his wife Laura, and the rest of his family in our thoughts and prayers. Blind people are undoubtedly in a much better place in Iowa because of Joe’s work and we are forever grateful. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Scott Van Gorp, President<br>National Federation of the Blind of Iowa<br>Phone: 515-720-5282<br></span><a href="mailto:svangorp@nfbi.org">Email</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.nfbi.org/"><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Website</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <br></span></i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/National-Federation-Of-the-Blind-Of-Iowa-372681823082570/posts"><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Facebook</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <br></span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/nfb_iowa"><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Twitter</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <br>Live the life you want.<br></span></i><br>The National Federation of the Blind of Iowa is a community of members and friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation’s blind. Every day we work together to help blind people live the lives they want.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>