1910s
Clarence Shields ’11
June 10, 1943, La Porte, Indiana
1930s
Nicholas Kirincic ’30
May 6, 2002, Lehigh Acres, Florida
Richard Tiegs ’33
June 17, 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mary Bergerson ’36
Jan. 27, 1990, Michigan City, Indiana
Alfred Zimmermann ’39
Dec. 15, 1993, South Bend, Indiana
1940s
Elizabeth Grosnick ’42
May 25, 2015, Watertown, Wisconsin
Alfred Looman ’42
January 14, 2016, Lenexa, Kansas
Margaret Soike ’42
October 16, 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio
Marvin Dumler ’43
October 5, 2015, Loveland, Colorado
Selma Karsten ’43
March 29, 2015, New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Phyllis Schwulst ’43 Benton
September 8, 2012, Cape Coral, Florida
Eileen Hohenstein ’44
March 3, 2015, Park Ridge, Illinois
Marie Clark ’45
January 19, 2015, Saint Charles, Illinois
Nedra Clifford ’45
September 11, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Bette Ann Froehlich ’45
May 14, 2015, Appleton, Wisconsin
Gerhard Vogel ’45
July 29, 2014, Arlington Heights, Illinois
Polly Steffy ’46
May 5, 2015, Simi Valley, Virginia
Lois Yox ’46
March 17, 2015, Orchard Park, New York
Victor Kamprath ’47
April 6, 2015, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Gilbert Krause ’47
June 9, 2014, Duluth, Minnesota
Ellen Spitz ’47
February 2, 2016, Houston, Texas
Eileen Felton ’48
June 29, 2015, South Bend, Indiana
Donald Koehn ’48
June 30, 2015, Waverly, Iowa
Leslie Zoss ’48
December 14, 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana
Doris Blickle ’49
January 7, 2016, Wheaton, Illinois
Olive Harrity ’49
August 21, 2015, West Caldwell, N.J.
Donald Jensen ’49
November 25, 2015, Poway, California
Gordon Koelling ’49
July 4, 2010, Tuscon, Arizona
Cherie Kuefner ’49
July 26, 2015, San Leandro, California
Robert McCord ’49
October 15, 2012, Tucson, Arizona
William Schroeder ’49
October 20, 2015, Boise, Idaho
Laurel Schussler ’49
August 29, 2015, Libertyville, Illinois
Wallace Schwahn ’49
July 22, 2015, Rock Island, Illinois
Richard Smith ’49
March 24, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Myrle Strehlau ’49
February 19, 2015, San Diego, California
1950s
Charlotte Anderson ’50
March 23, 2015, Chesterton, Indiana
George Docter ’50
August 21, 2015, Dublin, Ohio
Arthur Gray’50
June 15, 2015, Anaheim, California
Robert Hansen Sr. ’50
February 20, 2016, Midland, Michigan
Frederick Heinecke ’50
November 8, 2015, Franklin, Tennessee
Donald Heinitz ’50
January 30, 2012, Allen Park, Michigan
Dorothy Herscher ’50, ’66
October 2, 2015, Herscher, Illinois
Victor Holm ’50
December 24, 2014, Southfield, Michigan
Lois Horsch ’50
December 17, 2011, Isle, Minnesota
Mary Hupp ’50
July 10, 2011, Henrico, Virginia
Marilyn Krueger ’50
October 8, 2015, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
William Lafountain ’50
June 10, 2015, Lisle, Illinois
Richard Luenser ’50
August 20, 2007, Largo, Florida
Ernest Muenchow ’50
June 1, 2015, Janesville, Wisconsin
Elden Rhode ’50
April 8, 2015, Elgin, Illinois
Robert Roepstorff ’50
December 27, 2012, Vero Beach, Florida
Laurel Rouse ’50
October 1 2015, Rothschild, Wisconsin
Loren Schnack ’50
August 26, 2015, Quincy, Illinois
Henry Schricker ’50H
December 23, 1991, South Bend, Indiana
William Anderson ’51
March 15, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Richard Boeck ’51
July 10, 2011, Denison, Iowa
Richard Bohde ’51
September 5, 2015, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Glenn Colley ’51
November 23, 2014, Mountain Home, Arkansas
Edward Ralph Dierking ’51
March 4, 2015, Aurora, Illinois
Robert Duerr ’51
September 2, 2015, North Tonawanda, New York
Daniel Eickemeyer ’51
March 3, 2016, Huntley, Illinois
Elizabeth Fardig ’51
June 7, 2003, Detroit, Michigan
Paul Flatz ’51
April 12, 2011 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marion Hillger ’51
September 1, 2015, Matteson, Illinois
Lawrence Jahnsen ’51
September 7, 2014, Claremont, California
Ashley Johnson ’51
October 9, 2015, Rogers, Arizona
Donald Kruse ’51
June 10, 2000, New York, New York
Howard Metzger ’51
March 3, 2015, Canton, Ohio
Robert Moeller ’51
April 10, 2015, Itasca, Illinois
Robert Schnoor ’51
December 9, 2015, Grand Rapids, Michigan
William Sievert ’51
September 7, 2015, Chesterton, Indiana
Joan Sohn ’51
March 15, 2016, Roseville, Minnesota
Daniel Tiebert ’51
March 3, 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana
Ernest Wruck ’51
March 18, 2005, Patchogue/Brookhaven, New York
Charles Anderson ’52
August 3, 2015, Green Valley, Ariz
David Buhrow ’52
November 28, 2015, Dundee, Illinois
Ralph Burns ’52
October 23, 2014, Valparaiso, Indiana
Norma Dison ’52
March 6, 2014, Rochester, Minnesota
Walter Helmke ’52
January 20, 2016, Fort Wayne, Indiana
William Hindahl ’52
September 8, 2015, McLeansboro, Illinois
Glenn Koepke ’52
May 4, 2015, Unknown
Ruth Kulow ’52
October 20, 2006, Empire, Michigan
Robert Mohme ’52
September 6, 2012, Harbor Springs, Michigan
Stephen Nedza ’52
August 26, 2015, La Porte, Indiana
Carolyn Schaser ’52
July 25, 2015, Greendale, Wisconsin
Edward Strehlau ’52
November 14, 2014, San Diego, California
James Tobias ’52
August 20, 2015, St. Louis, Missouri
Margaret Drescher ’53
March 4, 2016, Medford, Oregon
Ned Knape ’53
December 22, 2014, South Bend, Indiana
Kurt List ’53
June 21, 2015, Michigan City, Indiana
Gene Murphy ’53
November 18, 2015, Columbus, Ohio
Julianne Schaefer ’53
June 23, 2015, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Karl Wikelski ’53
March 15, 2016, Odessa, Texas
August Braun ’54
May 7, 2013, Steeleville, Illinois
Arthur Diesing ’54
March 31, 2016, Louisville, Kentucky
Mary Koepsell ’54
July 31, 2015, Rochester, Minnesota
Paul Krentz ’54
March 10, 2016, Cincinnati, Ohio
Gerald Hesse ’55
December 1, 2015, Warrenton, North Carolina
Marilyn Jenkins ’55
January 2, 2011, Huntington Beach, California
Robert Riegelman ’55
December 6, 2015, Racine, Wisconsin
Paul Steinwart ’55
December 8, 2015, Bristol, Illinois
Margaret Dunn ’56
March 28, 2015, Rancho Bernardo, California
Ruth Huebner ’56
November 10, 2015, Scottsdale, Arizona
Daniel Jarman ’56
February 20, 2010, Pekin, Illinois
Thomas Lewis ’56
December 7, 2015, Tavares, Florida
Harold E. McCarron ’56
September 19, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Robert Mueller ’56
January 9, 2015, Prescott, Arizona
Harold Renkel ’56
February 23, 2016, Fairview Park, Ohio
Jean Rosenthal ’56
December 18, 2015, Arlington Heights, Illinois
Robert Schuneman ’56
December 4, 2015, Wayland, Massachusetts
Shirley Aigner ’57
November 2, 2015, Michigan City, Indiana
Bruce Claxton ’57
September 29, 2015, Hilton Head, South Carolina
Robert Dillon ’57
July 1, 2015, Michigan City, Indiana
Carl Galow ’57
April 8, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
William Geisler ’57
March 18, 2016, Davenport, Iowa
Peter Halkias ’57
October 6, 1999, Hammond, Indiana
Alma Lawrence ’57
February 1, 2016, Defiance, Ohio
Richard Leib ’57
March 1, 2016, Elkhart, Indiana
Earl Matz ’57
June 26, 2015, DeKalb, Illinois
Harold Meier ’57
April 1, 2016, Matthews, North Carolina
Ruth Mercier ’57
January 11, 2011, Palos Hills, Illinois
Victor Rammelsberg ’57
August 5, 2015, Shelbyville, Indiana
Melvin Walsh ’57
April 22, 2015, North Aurora, Illinois
Lois Wiechmann ’57
February 26, 2016, Gainesville, Florida
Velma Amling ’58
November 10, 2015, Lanark, Illinois
Ralph Reuss ’58
November 18, 2015, South Windsor, Connecticut
Harold Ulreich ’58
September 29, 2015, Indianapolis
Carmen Valle ’58
May 28, 1991, Merrillville, Indiana
Mary Wallace ’58
December 30, 2015, Merrillville, Indiana
Theodore Werning ’58
July 30, 2001, Soulsbyville, California
Allen Bubolz ’59
November 20, 2015, Appleton, Wisconsin
Elwood Carlson ’59
July 13, 2013, Scarborough, Maine
David Fergus ’59
September 8, 2015, Worthington, Ohio
Daniel Gade ’59
June 15, 2015, Burlington, Vermont
Norton Jensen ’59
July 29, 2012, Chicago, Illinois
Kathleen Ludwig ’59 ’84
December 11, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Gerhard Roggenkamp ’59
August 11, 2009, Shamokin, Pennsylvania
Sally Ruhnke ’59
May 15, 2012, McHenry, Illinois
Mary Sanders ’59
January 13, 2016, Oro Valley, Arizona
Stephanie Umbach ’59
January 18, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana
Bruce Winkler ’59
September 6, 2015, Tampa Bay, Florida
1960s
Edwin Andrews ’60
January 26, 2016, Rexford, New York
Doris Breitenfeld ’60
Sep. 8, 2014, Woodland Park, Colorado
William Buehring ’60
January 18, 2015, Kensington, California
Nora Dohler ’60
August 23, 2015, Madison, Wisconsin
George Filar ’60
April 28, 2015, Tallahassee, Florida
Donald Galow ’60
September 19, 2014, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Robert Handrock ’60
June 17, 2015, Elgin, Illinois
Benno Harrer ’60
July 19, 2015, Hernando, Florida
Daryl Hoh ’60
January 9, 2013, Cornelia, Georgia
Elmer Kiekhaefer ’60
June 28, 2015, Greeley, Colorado
Nancy Marciniak ’60, ’65
January 25, 2015, Tinley Park, Illinois
Ruth Nobis ’60
December 28, 2015, Kendallville, Indiana
William Swift ’60
July 15, 2015, Somers, New York
Nicholas Andersen ’61
March 18, 2015, Traverse City, Michigan
Thomas Cummings ’61
October 23, 1996, Chicago, Illinois
Richard Dierking ’61
October 29, 2015, Danville, Illinois
Dale Gilkinson ’61
March 5, 2013, Glendora, California
Michael Iannce ’61
July 5, 2012, San Luis Obispo, California
Eugene Kroenke ’61
September 28, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Ronald Schultz ’61
February 5, 2014, Orange, California
Richard Allwardt ’62
October 24, 2015, Springfield, Missouri
James Bevins ’62
January 28, 2016, La Porte, Indiana
Mary Clark ’62
March 6, 2015, Sullivan, Indiana
Joy Dougherty ’62
August 30, 2015, Toledo, Ohio
Joel Gast ’62
April 24, 2015, San Diego, California
Loretta Lieske ’62
May 26, 2013, Ocala, Florida
Richard Nilson ’62
December 21, 2015, Hayward, Wisconsin
Kenneth Pike ’62
January 25, 2016, Columbia, Missouri
Alfred Pilarcik ’62
September 20, 2010, Schererville, Indiana
Gloria Schmidt ’62
June 23, 2015, Minot, North Dakota
Karren Sugden ’62
March 4, 2016, Freedom, Wisconsin
Marjorie Hroziencik ’63
March 22, 2016, San Mateo, California
Louise Kuhn ’63
May 11, 2007, La Porte, Indiana
Edgar Lewandowski ’63
March 28, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Mary Malstrom ’63
March 10, 2015, Grand Haven, Michigan
Myrna Molberg ’63
October 31, 2015, Snohomish, Washington
Harvey Mulderink ’63
May 16, 2011, Morris, Illinois
Amy Defries ’64, ’67
February 2, 2008, Valparaiso, Indiana
Lee Germain ’64
May 17, 2015, Tallmadge, Ohio
Donald Graumann ’64
February 17, 2016, San Marcos, California
Arthur Miller ’64
December 20, 2010, Park, Michigan
David Ruopp ’64
May 8, 2015, Raleigh, North Carolina
Robert Schultz ’64
March 4, 2015, Bridgman, Michigan
Craig Settlage ’64
October 21, 2015, Bradenton, Florida
Geoffrey Tupper ’64
August 2, 2015, Francestown, New Hampshire
Glenn Andreas ’65
November 5, 1993, Pella, Iowa
Barbara Garazin ’65
May 31, 2013, Winfield, Illinois
Nicholas Maro ’65
April 10, 2015, Tanzania
Robert Nesbitt ’65
February 1, 2012, Venice, California
Loretta Austgen ’66
April 28, 2012, Lowell, Indiana
Barbara Greenberg ’66
March 10, 2014, Mount Prospect, Illinois
Paul Kahle ’66
May 1, 2005, Apopka, Florida
Donald Mensching ’66
November 20, 2015, Elgin, Illinois
William Natemeier ’66
June 8, 2014, Lockport, New York
Dennis Peoples ’66
March 23, 2016, Melbourne, Florida
Jennifer Peterson ’66
October 11, 2011, Richmond, Virginia
Gisela Zech ’66
May 3, 2015, Belvedere, California
Malcolm Duncan ’67
August 23, 2015, Fort Myers, Florida
Carolynn Harrison ’67
October 21, 2015, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Ruth Heinecke-Culbert ’67
March 12, 2011, Montgomery, Illinois
Robert Kaestner ’67
April 16, 2015, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Lois Kockler ’67
February 3, 2016, Raytown, Missouri
Susan Kowert ’67
April 12, 2013, Erdenheim, Pennsylvania
Shiela Kuehnle ’67
November 20, 2015, Merrillville, Indiana
Lynn Raber ’67
March 15, 2010, Westfield, Indiana
Richard Sauter ’67
February 9, 2011, McKinney, Texas
Henry Koehler ’68
January 29, 2016, Little Compton, Rhode Island
Gregory Koenig ’68
October 31, 2015, Tampa, Florida
Karen Koenig ’68 Briars
March 9, 2015, Kouts, Indiana
Mark Mahlke ’68
April 11, 2015, Middletown, New York
Gene Thiemann ’68
April 22, 2015, Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Randall West ’68
May 16, 1993, Calumet City, Illinois
Lee Youngquist ’68
March 29, 2014, Raleigh, North Carolina
Owen Biller ’69
February 13, 2006, Georgetown, Tennessee
Bruce Bleke ’69
May 5, 2015, Davenport, Iowa
Alfred Brisson ’69
January 24, 2000, Kildeer, Illinois
Gene Hennig ’69, ’74
August 25, 2015, Chanhassen, Minnesota
Bruce Werner ’69
August 8, 1995, Exton, Pennsylvania
1970s
Glen Figolah ’70
May 6, 2015, Independence, Missouri
Thomas Gerken ’70
December 24, 2015, Joplin, Missouri
Keith Malison ’70
October 8, 2015, Miami, Florida
Malcolm McLain ’70
March 21, 2016, Niles, Michigan
Jeffrey Pick ’70
March 18, 2015, The Villages, Florida
Bruce Ratchford ’70
March 7, 1999, Chicago, Illinois
Deborah Cole ’71
March 30, 2016, Westerville, Ohio
Carl Fitzpatrick ’71
August 2, 2011, Evanston, Illinois
Dan Krieter ’71
January 8, 2010, Fennville, Michigan
Linda Kroeger ’71
June 22, 2015, Germantown, Wisconsin
David Lah ’71
September 25, 2014, O’Fallon, Missouri
Faith Ressmeyer ’71
April 12, 2015, United Kingdom
Harold Schmueser ’71
February 13, 2010, Hammond, Indiana
Linda Gabriel ’72
August 23, 2015, Ocean View, Delaware
Charles Kriner ’72
October 17, 2015, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Patricia Lavery ’72
May 23, 2015, Elkhart, Indiana
Mark Niemiller ’72
November 24, 2015, DeMotte, Indiana
Donald Rice ’72
December 9, 2015, Ogden Dunes, Indiana
Gregory Smith ’72
June 30, 2015, McLean, Virginia
Jon Stem ’72
June 8, 2015, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Lois Johnson ’73
March 3, 2007, Lima, Ohio
Diane Meyer ’73, ’76
December 7, 2015, La Porte, Indiana
August Siebert ’73
July 16, 1998, Westerville, Ohio
Joseph Sus Sr. ’73
August 25, 2015, Munster, Indiana
Wanda Durrette ’74
December 22, 2000, Cheltenham, Maryland
Kevin Kleidon ’74, ’77
July 17, 2015, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Kevin Koch ’74
March 14, 2008, Frankenmuth, Michigan
Linda Joy Scheimann ’74
March 8, 2015, West Bend, Wisconsin
James Brendemuhl ’75
September 27, 2015, Riverside, Illinois
Bernhard Jutzi ’75H
December 15, 1994, Austin, Texas
Vivian McClure ’75
February 4, 2011, Gary, Indiana
Fred Schinkowski ’75
March 20, 2016, Winfield, Illinois
Nicholas Schulz ’75
November 8, 2005, Chicago, Illinois
Robin Bartholomew ’76
April 14, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Barbara Cortese ’76
January 8, 2014, Crown Point, Indiana
Medi Hoover ’76
September 27, 2015, Austin, Texas
Rolf Petersen ’76
March 28, 2015, Park Ridge, Illinois
Mary Witt ’76
April 7, 2015, St. Louis, Missouri
Jeffrey Badger ’78
August 8, 2014, Appleton, Wisconsin
Lori Christiansen ’78
September 23, 2015, St. Louis, Missouri
Janet Fabian ’78
July 18, 2015, Pine Township, Pennsylvania
Paul Greve ’78
July 6, 2015, Lafayette, Indiana
James McCoy ’78
September 10, 2014, North Palm Beach, Florida
Jane Skaltsas ’78
August 6, 2014, Valparaiso, Indiana
Brian Wolske ’78
November 25, 2006, Valparaiso, Indiana
Nathan Fink ’79
October 3, 2015, Fort Wayne, Indiana
1980s
Charlene Armstead ’80
October 29, 2002, Florissant, Missouri
Larry Clark ’80, ’85
January 31, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana
Evelyn Oldsen ’80H
January 11, 2002, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Cindy Smith ’80
February 2, 2009, Valparaiso, Indiana
Howard Wertz ’80
March 8, 2015, Wilmette, Illinois
Michael Cunningham ’81
October 28, 2015, St. Joseph, Michigan
Elizabeth Tegarden ’81
June 6, 2015, Elyria, Ohio
Eugene Parker ’82
March 31, 2016, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Richard Apuzzo ’84
July 7, 2015, Batavia, Ohio
Tammy Boxman ’84
January 29, 2016, Seymour, Indiana
Melody Logsdon ’84
March 21, 2015, Emily, Minnesota
Katie Nagel ’84 Brennan
June 25, 2015, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Curtis Craigmile ’85
December 5, 2015, Mokena, Illinois
Kevin Gibson ’86
March 22, 2016, South Bend, Indiana
Jennifer Olski ’89
March 19, 2015, Appleton, Wisconsin
1990s
Eleanor Strimbu ’90
December 7, 2015, Merrillville, Indiana
John Elrod ’91
October 28, 2015, Chicago Park, California
Victor Marino ’91
December 25, 2007, Michigan City, Indiana
Georgia Huffman ’94
August 3, 2015, Ogden Dunes, Indiana
Barbara Transki ’94
December 28, 2014, Michigan City, Indiana
Dana Buelow Robinson ’97, ’01 M.S., ’10 DNP
February 9, 2015, Mansfield, Ohio
Ralph Chester ’97
October 15, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana
Walter Dunlavey ’97
October 5, 2015, Sharon, Pennsylvania
Luann Woodrick ’98
February 11, 2016, Galien, Michigan
2000s
Scott Smith ’00
October 2, 2015, Oconee County, South Carolina
Rupert Dunklau ’05H
February 3, 2016, Fremont, Nebraska
Lynn Steen ’12H
June 21, 2015, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Allen Fletcher ’14
November 5, 2014, Kansas City, Missouri
Emeritus Employees
James Kingsland ’82
January 17, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana
William Schlender ’41
January 19, 2016, Sawyer, Michigan
Faculty
Georgia S. Huffman ’94
August 3, 2015, Ogden Dunes, Indiana
Lynn Arthur Steen ’12H, emeritus professor of mathematics at St. Olaf College and 2012 honorary degree recipient from Valparaiso University, passed away June 21, 2015, in Minneapolis.
Staff
Virginia Lawson
August 19, 2015, The Woodlands, Texas
Juanita Vikartovsky
August 16, 2015, Valparaiso, Indiana