FARMINGTON — Jennifer Jaff, whose struggle with Crohn’s disease prompted her to create an organization to advocate for others who suffer from chronic illnesses, has died.

Jaff, 55, of Farmington, was executive director of Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness Inc., the nonprofit group she founded in 2005. She died Sept. 14.

Jaff worked as a lawyer in the state attorney general’s office and as a partner with a Hartford law firm before creating the organization and working to assist others. She learned through an online community of people who suffered from Crohn’s disease that there were things she could do to help them.

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