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A sad announcement Ron Crickenberger, a well known libertarian activist of several decades standing, passed away overnight.
He is survived by his partner Noelle Stettner, two children, and one grandchild.
The movement will miss him.
If you knew Ron, please add your remembrance to our comments section.
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Ron Crickenberger was the perennial Libertarian candidate for Congress in the district I lived in in Arlington, VA. He was as decent and good a man as ever tried to get mixed up in the garbage heap of politics. He will always be my Congressman. =(
– Josh
I voted for him in 2002, though I never met him or knew much about him. Sad.
I have just recently began searching for articles about Ron Crickenberger, and his death, so this is why the post is so long since his death so that I can make a personal remembrance website for him. Ron Crickenberger was my father. I loved him dearly, and still do. The only thing that I can be thankful for is that the day after I got out of the hosptial mayself from giving birth to his only grandchild, my hisband, my mother, my brother, my daughter, and I all got into a car and drove the 13 hours to Washintgon DC so that my father would be able to at least meet his first grandchild before he passed away. Even though most of the time he was spaced out, not sure if it was due to the cancer, or the medication they had him on, he was “with it” enough to realize that his granddaughter was there, and he asked to see her twice. So, I know that he KNEW that he got to see her. I know that alot of times a person can be so ill that they don’t know what’s going on, and in the last fews days, it seemed that Dad was like that alot, but I was glad that he KNEW Sabrina was there. I know that it had to mean alot to him to get to see his first grandchild.
I did not know a whole lot about my father’s libertarian ambitions, to tell you the truth, until recently, I did not much care. I knew that it was a big part of his life, and I knew in general what the party was all about. When I was young, I was always at conventions, and rallies, and parades, and such with my Dad. I was his little helper, passing out flyers, and getting people to fill out the “World’s Smallest Political Quiz”, but I don’t think I ever really got into it. Never like my Dad. I was never big into politics. Now that I’ve grown up, gotten married and have a family myself, I now understand why this was so important to him. It’s not always how the United States is for us, but how we can make it a better place for our children to grown up. If we can make it just a little bit better for them than it was for us, then we’ve succeded. And I think my Dad succeded.