Thomas Fekete
Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete was diagnosed in late 2014 with a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma that had by then already spread to his lungs and spine. The cancer forced Fekete to quit Surfer Blood in 2015, and he died on May 31, 2016. His wife, Jess, wrote, “He was the kind-hearted, funny, fearless, magnetic beam of light you all knew him to be up until his very last breath.” He was 27.