Thursday, December 2, 2021
I just found out about Ralph's passing. My heart-felt condolences go out to his family. His parents and my folks met early in their teaching careers and I spent a few summers at their farm picking fruit and playing around their property in Vineland. Ralph was the perfect role model for me, 4 years his junior, in the early 70's. He always had a scheme going. One year it was trapping muskrats in the local creek and skinning them for sale. One year he had captured a baby racoon which he housed in an enclosure he built. Then there was the cherry and peach crops that we harvested for commercial purposes. There are dozens of memories of Ralph that still make me smile every time I drive through Vineland. Based on the other tributes to Ralph it appears that his joie de vivre that I experienced as a young teenager continued throughout his life right to the end. Rest in peace Ralph.
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