Ron Chaffee was well known as a pillar in the area business and service community and termed a “legend” in the auctioneering industry. The long-serving member of the Beach Haven Exchange Club was a former district president at the national level. Others following his death Dec. 17 are mourning the loss of an affable coffee shop friend always ready to share a good story and a laugh.

Ronald Bliss Chaffee, 77, of High Bar Harbor was a patient at Lankenau Heart Institute inWynnewood, Pa., when he died.

Besides beinga broker-associate/Realtor for Oceanside Realty in Harvey Cedars, Chaffee wasan owner, dean emeritus and…