The official website for Stellafane, www.steallafane.org, published an announcement about the memorial service held for Joe on the Stellafane grounds.
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” Family & Friends honor
Joseph LaVigne at Stellafane[2008-May-29] On Sunday May 25, 2008, the Springfield Telescope Makers hosted a memorial service for amateur telescope maker Joseph LaVigne, who passed away unexpectedly at the age of 44. Before family and friends, Joe’s request was honored as his ashes were spread on Stellafane’s Observing Field. As a teen and young adult, Joe was a regular attendee at the Annual Convention and displayed his homemade reflector. He moved to Montana where he pursued astrophotography from his Weasel Creek Observatory. He authored the chapter “Imaging the Moon with an Astro-Video Camera” in Peter Wlasuk’s “Observing the Moon, A Practical Guide”, one of Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series.”
Special thanks to Linda, a friend of mine and a friend of Joe’s, for sending this in.
TODAY IS JOE’S MEMORIAL SERVICE. 
Carol & I hope to see you all there.
The Memorial Service for Joe will be;
Thursday, February 28th at 8:00pm at the Planetarium.
Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium
3450 Ortiz Ave, Fort Myers, FL
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or: alternate link for map: tinyurl.com/2lee8g
A special Thank You goes out to Carole Holmberg and Sanders Lewallen of the Calusa Nature Center for offering the facility to us for this service. I cannot thank them enough for that generous gesture.
AFTER the memorial service, we will continue to grow this site. We have plans for posting photos, a scrapbook, archives of his astronomy web pages, a powerpoint show, links for having photo prints made and more. So be sure to come back again in the future – don’t forget about the site, never forget about Joe.
Carol & I have set a date for the Memorial Service.
The Memorial Service for Joe will be;
Thursday, February 28th at 8:00pm at the Planetarium.
Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium
3450 Ortiz Ave, Fort Myers, FL
..:Map::..
or: alternate link for map: tinyurl.com/2lee8g
Please spread the word. I hope you will attend.
A special Thank You goes out to Carole Holmberg and Sanders Lewallen of the Calusa Nature Center for offering the facility to us. I cannot thank them enough for that generous gesture.
Hi everybody. TGIF. I am working with Carol and together we are trying to gather photos and also come up with a plan for a memorial service for Joe. We are hoping to have a service one evening in February, at the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium. Carol and I are meeeting for dinner Friday night and will organize some of the details then. Please stay tuned for more info. Don’t forget to sign the guestbook (see the right-hand sidebar).
~Lauren
UPDATE: Please, anyone who has photos of joe, or sketches Joe did, etc., please consider sending me copies for the website, scrapbook, memorial service, etc. Thanks. ~Lauren
