The tattoo community has lost one of its own.
Ryan Hadleywho took part in the sixth season of the reality show Spike. Ink Master in 2015, died on June 20 after a battle with cancer. He was 46.
“Ryan left this world last night surrounded by loved ones,” reads a message posted on his page. Instagram 21st of June. “Although his life was cut short, during that time he left behind a legacy in both the art and tattoo worlds. He loved his many fans, his friends and clients, and most of all his children. He will be missed. and will always remember #rip #f-kcancer.”
The Fort Wayne, Indiana, native and father of six revealed the news last December on a GoFundMe page created by his adult daughter. Whitney that he is undergoing chemotherapy for seminoma, a malignant germ cell tumor. This was not his first time undergoing cancer treatment.
“I have now been admitted to the hospital for chemotherapy earlier than I expected,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Instagram. “The last time I went through it, it almost killed me and scared the crap out of me.”
