“Because Jonah Would” benefit to honor late Farmingdale native after battle with cancer

“Because Jonah Would” benefit to honor late Farmingdale native after battle with cancer

Jonah Gruda believed in “working hard to leave the world a place better than [he] found it.” After he died in June from cancer, his wife started a research scholarship in his honor, which will hold a fundraising event in January. Debra Gruda said her husband’s health battle began when he was 18 years old, when he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. She said that over time, doctors suspected he also had primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chroni…