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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On 02 Jul 2019 at 10:11p, Janis Kracht pondered and said...

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 :(

Shocked and saddened to learn of this :(

Ben was always a pleasure to chat with in Fido and on othernets and clearly enjoyed tinkering with software and used his skills to contribute programs to the wider BBS community for their use and enjoyment.

I'll miss him. RIP Ben.

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Hi Paul,

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 :(

Shocked and saddened to learn of this :(

Yes :( I did not expect it :(

Ben was always a pleasure to chat with in Fido and on othernets and clearly enjoyed tinkering with software and used his skills to contribute programs to the wider BBS community for their use and enjoyment.

I'll miss him. RIP Ben.

Thank you for your reply, much appreciated!

Take care,
Janis

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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 :(

Ye it is sad. Didn't know him and I send my condolences to the family.

Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
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On 02 Jul 2019, Janis Kracht said the following...

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

This hit me very hard. I was just chatting with Ben a few weeks ago, via netmail. I can't believe he's gone.

I did forward your message into fsxNet, so that other's would also know what happened.

My thoughts are with Ben's family and his whole world-wide group of friends.


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Hi Dan,

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 :(

This hit me very hard. I was just chatting with Ben a few weeks ago, via netmail. I can't believe he's gone.

Exactly ... what a shock. :(

I did forward your message into fsxNet, so that other's would also know what happened.

Hey, thank you Dan. Fidonet is the only network I belong to, so your message will be helpful for those in other networks.

My thoughts are with Ben's family and his whole world-wide group of friends.

Take care,
Janis

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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 :(

Ye it is sad. Didn't know him and I send my condolences to the family.

Thank you, I'll pass this along to them.

Take care,
Janis

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