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RON GIBBENS, NDADs CO-FOUNDER AND LONGTIME LEADER, DIES AT 80 SPECIAL TO DEVILS LAKE  JOURNAL The co-founder, retired chief executive officer and only board president in the nearly 46-year existence of charitable nonprofit NDAD has died. Ron Gibbens died in hospice care Sunday morning at the Grand Forks home of his son, Mike. Inspired by Mike, their only child, who has cerebral palsy, Ron and Faye Gibbens built the charitable nonprofit North Dakota Association for the Disabled from an informal...

By Pat Sweeney The co-founder of the North Dakota Association for the Disabled (NDAD) has died. Ron Gibbens died Sunday morning while in hospice care at the Grand Forks home of his son, Mike. Inspired by Mike, who has cerebral palsy, Ron and his late wife Faye built NDAD from an informal Grand Forks support group for parents of children with disabilities. Ron Gibbens was the only board president in NDAD’s nearly 46 years of existence. He was 80 years old. (Photo: NDAD) (NDAD release:)...