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‘Bobo’ Ciacci,
ex-UH football player,
dies; bone marrow
donors sought for others

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By Rosemarie Bernardo
Star-Bulletin

Lane "Bobo" Ciacci Jr., 47, died yesterday at Queen's Medical Center after a battle with leukemia.

A Maui resident who worked for Merrill Lynch, Ciacci was diagnosed with leukemia on Nov. 6, just two days after he began to experience shortness of breath, weakness and headaches while visiting some friends on Oahu, said his wife, Nancy.

Ciacci was a 1972 Punahou graduate and a former University of Hawaii football player.

For more than 20 years, he was involved in the travel industry with agencies such as Aloha Airlines, Prince Hotels, Kapalua Bay Hotel and the Lanai Company.

"He would give the shirt off his back to help anybody," Mrs. Ciacci said.

Ciacci was one of several island residents for whom a search for bone marrow donors was to be conducted this weekend by the Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry.

Sponsors will continue the bone marrow donor registry on Saturday at Daiei's food court in Waipahu from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Sunday at the Punahou School's Dole Cafeteria from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

More than 16,000 people nationwide are diagnosed with some type of fatal blood disease each year. The Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry seeks to register as many potential donors as possible, especially those of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry.