Howard Gobioff

[Wandi Bruine de Bruin]

Everyone,
I am very sorry to have to forward this very sad news about Howard today.
Wandi

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gobioff Neil <gonzonia at gmail.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2008 1:09 AM
Subject: Howard Gobioff
To: Gobioff Neil <neil at gonzonia.com>

It is with great sadness that I write to you today. I don't know how
some of you know Howard, but your email address was in his phone.
Howard passed away this afternoon at approximately 1pm after a battle
with lymphoma. He was originally diagnosed in 2003 with a non-
aggressive type of lymphoma and chose not to tell anyone including his
family. On 1/31/2008 he was admitted to Memorial Sloan-Kettering
hospital with pneumonia and found that the cancer had transformed into
something more aggressive. He asked me to come up on 2/8/2008. Two
days later he was admitted to the ICU and I informed the rest of his
family. For the last 31 days Howard put up quite a fight but
eventually acquired an infection that his body was no longer able to
fight.

He will be buried in Hollywood, Florida this Friday (3/14/2008) at

Beth David Memorial Gardens
3201 NW 72nd Ave
Hollywood, FL 33024

The service will be at 2pm in the chapel.

For those of you unable to attend I will be putting together something
in NY sometime in the near future and will keep you informed.

Please do not send flowers. If you'd like to do something, please
donate to one of the charities Howard chose to leave money to:

Lymphoma and Lukemia Society
ACLU Foundation
Planned Parenthood Federation of America


Thank you,

Neil Gobioff