Remembering Ronald Griffin, who received the gift of life from late UNC mascot
Posted Jun 2, 2011
The family and friends entered the small Irvington church dressed in black, but they also carried a small sliver of baby blue. It was a decal featuring the University of North Carolina ram mascot, and as the mourners walked past Ronald Griffin’s casket, they placed it inside. The gesture, coming a few hundred miles away from Tobacco Road, might have seemed strange to anyone who did not know this story.
(Newark Star-Ledger)
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