Raymond Fletcher, a Las Vegas disability advocate with rare disorder, dies at 48

Sandy Fletcher has been heartbroken and overwhelmed since the death of her son, who had become known in recent years as an advocate for those with disabilities in Las Vegas.

Raymond Fletcher III, born with a rare condition that made his limbs much smaller than normal, died Aug. 5 in Las Vegas. He was 48.

“He was an amazing man,” said Fletcher, 69. “Many people born the way he was born only live for a few months. He pushed through everything, rather than just whine and complain.”

Fletcher, who used a wheelchair and worked as a transit quality assurance specialist in the Regional Transportation Commission’s transit mobility department, came to Las Vegas from Indiana in 2013, his mother said, because he figured it would be easier to get around in a warm climate where snow was not a factor.