“On a more somber note I wanted to let you know that Mike has passed away. He’d always been a pretty heavy drinker, and he just got to the point where his kidneys and liver failed. He’d been in the hospital here for a couple of weeks until his family came and got him and took him to Idaho. He was supposed to have about three months to live so we were going to travel to Idaho in June once we were done with school, but Mike suffered a seizure on Sunday and passed away on Monday evening in the hospital.” -- DW