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Longtime local activist dies |
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by Christopher Baskind
Email: disposableaddress1 (nospam) paperfrog.com |
11 Jul 2004
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Longtime local civil rights activist Roger Goldberg has died at the age of 61. |
A longtime local civil rights activist is dead after a long fight with Leukemia.
Roger G. Goldberg, 61, died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Goldberg was born December 8, 1942, in Brooklyn, NY. He had been a resident of Pensacola for three decades. Goldberg was an active member of B'Nai Israel, B'Nai Israel Mens Club, CDAC, and the Escambia County School Board on Diversity Committee.
Local ACLU head Susan Watson praised Goldberg as " tireless advocate of civil liberties" with particular interest in church state issues. Goldberg was a board member of the local ACLU chapter and served as president of the Escambia chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Patricia; and his three children, Marc Joshua, Ryan and Allison; four beloved grandchildren, Eli, Sarah, Emma and Ori.
Waters & Hibbert is in charge of arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Leukemia Society of America.
(From an ACLU press release and local reports)
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Re: Longtime local activist dies |
by Brent
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11 Jul 2004
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I was very sorry to learn about Roger's death. Roger was warm and enthusastic about Civil Liberties, and and was among the most outspoken about church/state separation concerns. We will all miss him very much. |
