Bob Chassell passed away

* doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (About the Author): Update.

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 @end ifnottex
 
 @quotation
-Robert J. Chassell has worked with GNU Emacs since 1985.  He writes
-and edits, teaches Emacs and Emacs Lisp, and speaks throughout the
+Robert J. Chassell started working with GNU Emacs in 1985.  He wrote
+and edited, taught Emacs and Emacs Lisp, and spoke throughout the
 world on software freedom.  Chassell was a founding Director and
-Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  He is co-author of
-the @cite{Texinfo} manual, and has edited more than a dozen other
-books.  He graduated from Cambridge University, in England.  He has an
-abiding interest in social and economic history and flies his own
-airplane.
+Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  He was co-author of
+the @cite{Texinfo} manual, and edited more than a dozen other
+books.  He graduated from Cambridge University, in England.  He had an
+abiding interest in social and economic history and flew his own
+airplane.  He passed away on 30 June 2017.
+
+@uref{https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/goodbye-to-bob-chassell,
+"Goodbye to Bob Chassell"}
 @end quotation
 
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