Oh wait, I must be thinking of the wrong freeper. I thought this was the one that moved to the Philippines and had a Filipino wife. And the medical system there did him in.
Yes, different people.
That was Page Noe, who was WVKayaker.
He passed in 2016.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3460866/posts
I remember WVKayaker and his lovely wife, Marlene. She cooked up a storm - made his last years on this earth a dream. They were friends (I think Marlene still is) with (trying to remember correctly) John 17? Mark 17? I think he also lived there and was married to Marlene’s sister. I was sad when he took ill - and hoped he would make it back home in time to get some help. Page was his name. Nice man.