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  • Ben Ritchey... :(

    From Janis Kracht@3:640/1321 to All on Tue Jul 2 22:16:58 2019
    Hi Everyone,

    This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's daughter.. Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great man this week, and I lost a great friend :(

    Ben was a wonderful guy who worked with me from early in my fidonet career to the week just before he died. He loved Fidonet and was happy to spend time updating not only the echolist, but the software we use to maintain our database of echotags and moderators. When my own family ran into problems a few years ago with keeping echolist@filegate.net going, Ben was happy to help out by setting up a mirror at Nick's system.. That mirror continues today along with echolist@filegate.net.

    Ben's daughter sent me a copy of Ben's obituary, you can find it here:

    https://www.fountainmemorialfuneralhome.com/obituary/benjamin-dan-ritchey?lud=9 53BD8CCE1CAFA96A359635BF328BA44

    We're working on getting the information we need to keep the NAB echolist up to date, thank you to Nick Andre for helping out with this!

    With deepest sympathies to the family, and thanks to all in Fidonet who continue to keep the Echolist going... Janis

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  • From Fabio Bizzi@3:640/1321 to Janis Kracht on Wed Jul 3 09:01:30 2019
    Hello, Janis Kracht.
    On 02/07/19 22:11 you wrote:

    This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's
    daughter.. Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great man this
    week, and I lost a great friend :(
    Sincere condolences Janis. :(
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  • From Janis Kracht@3:640/1321 to Fabio Bizzi on Wed Jul 3 10:22:48 2019
    Hi Fabio,

    This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's
    daughter.. Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great man this
    week, and I lost a great friend :(
    Sincere condolences Janis. :(

    Thank you for your reply, Fabio - it is so sad when we lose good friends in Fidonet!

    Take care,
    Janis

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  • From Mike Miller@3:640/1321 to Janis Kracht on Sun Jul 7 23:03:04 2019
    Hello, Janis Kracht.
    On 7/2/19 10:11 PM you wrote:

    Hi Everyone, This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's daughter.. Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great
    man this week, and I lost a great friend :( Ben was a wonderful
    guy who worked with me from early in my fidonet career to the week
    just before he died. He loved Fidonet and was happy to spend time updating not only the echolist, but the software we use to
    maintain our database of echotags and moderators. When my own
    family ran into problems a few years ago with keeping echolist@filegate.net going, Ben was happy to help out by setting
    up a mirror at Nick's system.. That mirror continues today along
    with echolist@filegate.net.
    Ouch. This one hurts.

    Condolences to you, Janice and everyone else that became friends with Ben. We've lost a great man.


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