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Jamestown S'Klallam family mourns loss of 29-year-old man

Friends and family are mourning the loss of Nathan Ruffcorn, who was a 29-year-old member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of Washington.

Ruffcorn died in a single-car accident early Thursday morning. “We think he fell asleep at the wheel,” his mother, Linda Ruffcorn, told The Peninsula Daily News.

The family is hosting a blessing ceremony at the crash site today.

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