Joe Doak, Who Sat Vigil With Hospice Patients During Their Final Days, Dies At 96

Joe Doak devoted the final years of his own life to the final days of others’. The retired electrical engineer didn’t want patients at the HopeWest hospicein Grand Junction to die alone. So he became a vigil volunteer. Doak would sit with people, hold their hands, talk to them, pray with them. This month,