Norm Sandvoss passed away on Monday morning, June 7th 2010.
Every year for more than two decades, Norman Sandvoss would plan a trip for "The Tribe Warriors," an eclectic group of lawyers, businessmen and others, centered on a Cleveland Indians baseball game.
When the Indians' schedule came out, the Ravenna attorney would get someone in the office to get him to the Indians' website and set to planning.
"He would just be planning these trips. He loved it. It was all first class," said Attorney William Lentz, who shared office space with him in downtown Ravenna for 30 years.
This year's mid-May trip was to Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The group also attended the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred race at Pimlico Race Course.
"Norm would plan the trip from the ride to the airport to the ride home," said his friend, Garret Ferrara. "He was doing great."
The trip proved to be the last for Mr. Sandvoss.
Mr. Sandvoss, 67, a well-known and respected Portage County attorney and former chairman of the Portage County Republican Party, died early Monday morning at Summa Akron City Hospital, where he had been a patient for several days. He had been scheduled for surgery Monday afternoon.
News of his unexpected passing stunned his friends and colleagues, who remembered Mr. Sandvoss for his upbeat, energetic nature and his congeniality.
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