Posted in Web Pete Frates, Who Promoted the Ice Bucket Challenge, Dies … December 12, 2019 Pete Frates and his wife, Julie, at a Boston Red Sox game in 2015. He helped raise more than $100 million toward fighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease he learned he had in 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/pete-frates-dead.html