I am absolutely in total shock. Met this great man at my first ever contest. He and I had come to be very good friends and talked almost weekly and told some great stories, most of them borderline truth. I loved and respected him with all my heart. I do not know his family but my heart and prayers are with them. And I always closed my conversations with I will do it one more time “See You Soon you Ole Goat” and as I called him “Sir Ronald Von Pootenberg”. RIP<div>BOPOD, Doug, Joyce <br><br>On Sunday, March 11, 2018, mups53 via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>We lost a good one today.</div><div>RIP EVO and Godspeed.</div><div> Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Vicente Bortone via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.<wbr>org</a>> </div><div>Date: 3/11/18 6:22 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: General pattern discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.<wbr>org</a>>, Stuart Chale <<a href="mailto:schale1@outlook.com" target="_blank">schale1@outlook.com</a>> </div><div>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Ron Van Putte </div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="auto">Yes. Very sorry John. RIP </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:08 PM Stuart Chale via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.<wbr>org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>The pattern world will never be the same without him.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is with a great personal sense of loss and sadness that I inform the pattern community that Ronald E. Van Putte passed away today. Ron had had bypass surgery and seemingly was recovering from that with no issues. But sadly after
we returned from the Southeast Model Show, Ron had to be admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and other heart related issues from which he never recovered.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ron was an icon in the pattern world. He started flying pattern in the early 60’s and was active to the end. He did it all. Fierce pattern competitor, Contest Director, Nats Event director multiple times, World Championship judge,
World Championship co-event director. He was the anchor of the Eglin Aero Modelers for as long as the club has existed and also ran a hobby shop for many, many years.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I knew him for 40 years and we probably put 50,000 miles together on our vehicles going to contests over the years. He was my best friend and I will miss him greatly as the whole community will. I have no information at this time
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very respectfully<u></u><u></u></p>
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