Re: Another silent key

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	     Thanks for letting us know, Kirk.

       Bill has been struggling for quite a long time.

     He really helped many of us. I personally benefited from his email assistance... and still do!

     We'll miss him.

     --terry

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:31:58AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Writing to let people know that a long time friend and contributor
> Bill Acker wb2flw passed away last evening.
> 
> Bill was responsible for putting our first Redhat and fedora speakup
> enabled distributions together. In more recent years he maintained the
> server where we shared dns services and provided mail and mail backup
> for many members of the community.
> 
> He was an avid ham and phone freak and maintained a freeswitch which
> many people using voip still use.
> 
> I am going to miss him very much. I'm sure others here will as
> well. He died of complications to his prostate cancer which he's been
> fighting for the past couple years.
> 
> 73s Bill. It's been a good journey.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> -- 
> Well that's it then, colour me gone!
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Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	289-488-4882
E-mail:	terry.cudney@xxxxxxxxx
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