I am Tony's sister Susan ('79). Tony was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of 18. After several years of terrible pain and several operations, Tony passed away at the Medical University of SC in Charleston at the age of 23, two weeks shy of his 24th birthday. He suffered great pains during those several years. He left behind a daughter who was 7 years at the time and a family who still miss him greatly. August 2011 will be 30 years since his death. It is hard to believe. He and my sister Dianne('73) who passed away in September of 2009 from Breast Cancer are together in Heaven.
