I'm saddened to hear this.
Ralph was a regular at Lick Observatory Public nights... Always out front
showing the Sun to folks waiting in line.
Jeff
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> [mailto:sjaa-announce-bounces@No-Spam] On Behalf Of Jim Van Nuland
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:23 PM
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> Subject: [SJAA-announce] Ralph Libby, 1930 - 2007
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> >From Pat Madison, who was frequently with Ralph at various
> activities:
>
> Ralph Libby died this morning @ Kaiser/Santa Clara. He went in on
> Thursday for RFA (radio frequency ablation) procedure to
> treat the lung
> cancer and then also a second spot found on his liver this past week.
> They decided on Thursday to do both procedures. He was going to stay
> overnight and seemed fine Thursday night. Yesterday he had a
> high fever
> that went down and was very tired. This morning, he had trouble
> breathing when getting up out of a chair to go back to bed and they
> believe he had a massive heart attack.
>
> He most definitely will be missed by all of us.
>
> From Bob Havner: Ralph was all over the place -- always
> read to share
> his love of things with anyone who'd come and listen. He
> touched a lot
> of lives.
>
> JVN:
> Ralph was a regular at the SJAA schoolground star parties. He did
> many daytime activities at schools, in the classroom and also
> outdoors,
> and also at various non-astronomical educational activities.
>
> Good-bye, old friend.
>
TAC's Golden State Star Party at Mount Lassen
July 11 - 14, 2007 http://www.goldenstatestarparty.org
Received on Sat Apr 21 22:38:26 2007