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Obituaries


Recent Alumni Deaths

The following are death notices the College has received since May 2023. To inform us of a death of an alumni, please email [email protected]:

Gwendolyn “Mitzi” DeLapp Nielsen, ’47, KKG

David May, ’59, DSP

Richard Bazany, ‘58

West Ruggles, ’98, ATO

Eula Alkema, ‘51

Diana Morse Swan, ’65, CO

Carl Daniel Motsinger, ’79

Jane Ann Berry Kinjorski, ’61, CO

Calli Townsend Newberry, ‘21

Katherine Sloane Holmberg, ’05, CO

Susan Garner Neely, ’74, CO

Edmund Lelek, ’52, DSP

Barbara Pickl, ’81

Evelyn Fox, ‘75

Lois Lyle, ’47, CO

Jewel Grosscup Albright, ‘67

Arthur Robell, ’57, ATO

Carol Bashford Sterling, ’52, PBP

Wilma Mallard Schryver, ‘64

Charlene “Robin” Neal McLachlan, ’70, CO

Kathy Stewart Rhoade, ’86

Robert Mallendick, ’66, ATO

Richard Bazany, ’60, TKE

Melanie Shearman, ’04

Robert Buckley, ’70

Greg Martin, ’94

Linton Davidson, ’57, DTD

Reese Stipes, ’55, ATO

Barry Borst, ’65

Dr. Mark Lirot, ’80

Daniel Ludlow, ‘60

James White, ’57, DSP

James Larkin, ’61

Lloyd Bond, ’64

Susan Aigler Rosenhoover, ‘74

Jeff Pollard, ’66, ATO

David Marquardt, ’68, DTD

David Fry, ’65

Stephen Stubbs, ’88, DTD

Thomas Everlove, ’55, DTD

Ann Alessandrini, ’57, CO

Robert Nichols, ‘88

Vail Miller, ’68, DTD

Harry Nicholie, ‘63

Thomas Smith, ‘72

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