BOSTON — Just before former Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci announced publicly that he had ALS, he told the chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School that he was determined to do something to turn the diagnosis into a positive. In the last years of his life, he threw himself into efforts to raise money for research, ultimately helping to bring in nearly $2 million. Mr. Cellucci died at his home in Hudson on Saturday from complications of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative condition that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. He was 65. “He knew this wasn’t going to help him, but he was determined that he could help others by...
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