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authorJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2021-06-06 11:40:51 -0400
committerJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2021-06-06 11:40:51 -0400
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Obituary for Spider Boardman
Per posting on perl.module-authors by Neil Bowers and https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/obituaries-memorials/obituaries/2021/05/29/spider-raun-boardman/
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=head1 Obituary
-XXX If any significant core contributor or member of the CPAN community has
-died, add a short obituary here.
+Raun "Spider" Boardman (SPIDB on CPAN), author of at least 66 commits to the
+Perl 5 core distribution between 1996 and 2002, passed away May 24 2021 from
+complications of COVID. He will be missed.
=head1 Acknowledgements