John Bisbing Tribute

October 23, 2021

I was saddened to hear today about the passing of my longtime friend John Bisbing, at age 73, in Sharon, CT. We met in 1977 while driving transit buses in the town of State College, PA, after both of us graduated from Penn State. Over the decades and miles we stayed in touch. He would occasionally come out to CA to visit his sister who lives nearby, and I saw him this past July while traveling back east. He and his wife Andrea both contracted COVID last year, before there was a vaccine, and he ended up in the hospital for some time. When I saw him just three months ago he seemed well. But recently he became seriously ill with a rare blood phenomenon that doctors have seen in COVID patients, he went into septic shock, and sadly, never recovered.

John is not the first person that I knew to pass after getting the deadly virus. Nor will he be the last. If you haven't done so already, please get vaccinated so that more lives will not be lost.

JB, you will be forever missed, my friend...