Did not know and it's a month old as i'm skimming through the Jan issue of SOT. But the sign industry has suffered a great loss of one of it's greatest industry advocates, Lonnie Stabler. Had a few brief exchanges with him online on a few issues. Great guy, very knowledgeable, definitely one of the "do'ers" of the electric sign industry and he's been/served/volunteered in the Texas Sign Association for some time along with his wife. He's also been a valuable member here too.
I really respected this guy and in just finding out that he had cancer, he sure stayed active in the community till the end.
This industry will miss him.
http://www.thesignsyndicate.com/forums/index.php?/user/5812-advocate/
http://www.thesignsyndicate.com/forums/index.php?/user/6861-lonnie-stabler/
Thoughts and prayers to his family.