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If a Valparaiso University alumni is missing from this list, please report their passing to valparaiso.magazine@valpo.edu. Please include their name, graduation year, and the date and location of their passing. Alumni names without a graduation year cannot be sorted into the system below.

1940s

Vera Betker ’42
August 4, 2016, Dearborn, Michigan

Imelda Merlin ’42
March 27, 2016, Alameda, California

Walter Bauer ’49
November 24, 2012, Richmond, Indiana

Elmer Biles ’49
June 19, 2016, Indian Head, Maryland

Charles Coppola ’49
August 20, 2016, Worthington, Ohio

Elyse Reynolds ’49
July 25, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana

1950s

Lucile Busse ’50
February 10, 2016, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Charlene Erikson ’50
August 12, 2016, Rockford, IIllinois

Alice Harms ’50
April 27, 2016, Chesterfield, Virginia

Edith Haver ’50
July 18, 2016, Arlington Heights, IIllinois

Lucile M. Kraus ’50 Busse
February 10, 2016, unknown

Jean Oberdeck ’50
June 10, 2016, Savoy, IIllinois

Reynale Wenig ’50
August 15, 2016, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

Don Wyneken ’50, ’52
April 5, 2016, Fort Wayne, Indiana

David Carlson ’51
April 19, 2016, Merrillville, Indiana

Mary Ann Gollin ’51
May 8, 2016, Honeoye Falls, New York

Ruthann Hershman ’51, ’70
August 27, 2016, Wheatfield, Indiana

Frederick Neuliep ’51
May 31, 2012, South Bend, Indiana

Robert Payt ’51
January 29, 2016, Dublin, Ohio

Joachim Staackmann ’51
July 31, 2016, Tinley Park, IIllinois

Leroy Hochsprung ’52
September 9, 2015, Aurora, IIllinois

Charlotte Rousseau ’52
August 25, 2015, Rockledge, Florida

Philip Tuhy ’52
April 20, 2016, North Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Clarence Wollslager ’52
June 3, 2016, San Antonio, Texas

Warren Zschoche ’52
July 27, 2016, Cleveland, Ohio

Eleanor Christensen ’53
July 5, 2016, Knoxville, Tennessee

Kenneth Dobbins ’53
May 15, 2016, Bradenton, Florida

Lois Ebel ’53
July 10, 2016, Longmont, Colorado

Kenneth Krabbenhoft ’53
December 8, 2012, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Verda Schottman ’53
June 15, 2016, Dieterich, IIllinois

George Marshall ’54
June 8, 2016, Ballwin, Missouri

Kenneth Sommerfeld ’54
June 30, 2016, Davidson, North Carolina

Doris Kruse ’55
February 10, 2016, Westlake, Ohio

Lola Weicht ’55
May 18, 2016, Huntington, Indiana

Joseph Bigelow ’56
July 8, 2016, Anderson, Indiana

Dorothy Ebs ’56
February 8, 2015, Stephenville, Texas

Charles Robert Bretzke ’57
June 30, 2016, St. Louis, Missouri

Carla Ganswindt ’57
April 29, 2016, Brookfield, Wisconsin

Charles Voskamp ’57
May 20, 2016, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Gerald Johanning ’58
March 15, 2015, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

David McCain ’58
April 19, 2016, La Porte, Indiana

Donald McGibbon ’58
April 14, 2016, Sarasota, Florida

Janice Paxman ’58
May 30, 2016, Paso Robles, California

John Schultz ’58
July 23, 2016, Albert Lea, Minnesota

Thomas Deady ’59
February 21, 2016, Pasadena, Maryland

William Ernst ’59
April 3, 2012, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Gordon Herwig ’59
April 7, 2015, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

Frederick Olson ’59
August 18, 2006, La Mesa, California

Robert Reineck ’59
February 11, 2016, Mequon, Wisconsin

1960s

Ronald Astalos ’60
August 17, 2016, Port Huron, Michigan

Richard Hall ’60
May 8, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona

Philip Saubert ’60
June 19, 2016, Vero Beach, Florida

Bruce Smith ’60
April 24, 2016, Fishers, Indiana

Michael Roth ’62
May 17, 2016, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania

William Vinzant ’62
June 11, 2016, Schererville, Indiana

Richard Wilkie ’62
May 2, 2016, Aurora, Indiana

James Forrester ’63
May 30, 2016, Cedar Lake, Indiana

Hans Rosenhaupt ’63H
April 19, 1985, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Fredrik Schiotz ’63H
February 25, 1989, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dorothy Foster ’64
July 18, 2016, LaGrange Park, Illinois

Karen Landsberg ’64 Francis
July 23, 1997, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Arlene Skinner ’64
July 11, 2016, Goose Creek, South Carolina

Ronald Wackett ’64
June 11, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana

Bea Bergstrom ’65
April 23, 2016, Escondido, California

Alfred Bichsel ’65H
February 15, 1992, Rochester, New York

Marilyn Gardner ’65
April 22, 2016, Evanston, Illinois

Gerda Hook ’65
May 19, 2016, Tryon, North Carolina

Malcolm Zuidema ’65
August 2016, Alexandria, Virginia

Patricia Gibson ’66
June 15, 2016, La Porte, Indiana

Thomas Kase ’66
May 2, 2016, Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Milton Carpenter ’67H
November 19, 1996, St. Louis, Missouri

Bernard Augenstein ’68
July 2, 2016, Greenwood, Indiana

Jane Claypool ’68
August 5, 2015, Forest Park, Illinois

Jack Goff ’68
April 16, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana

Edward Wesemann ’68
August 1, 2016, Savannah, Georgia

Sylvia Wright ’68 M.Ed.
July 17, 2016, Hammond, Indiana

Gretchen Bergan ’69
May 23, 2016, Michigan City, Indiana

1970s

Barry Hollowell ’70
August 17, 2016, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

David Keller ’70
August 9, 2016, Greensboro, North Carolina

Lisa Sergio ’70H
June 22, 1989, Washington, D.C.

Dennis West ’70
June 30, 2016, Raymond, Wisconsin

Steven Baute ’71
June 18, 2016, Leesburg, Florida

Caryl Kirchens ’71
December 12, 2009, Lake Villa, Illinois

Joann Myers ’71
February 3, 2016, West Palm Beach, Florida

Haven Kelley ’73
April 10, 2016, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Chrys Moelter ’73
January 15, 2016, Grand Haven, Michigan

Jacquelyn Raywood ’73
February 17, 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana

Marilyn Angulo ’74
May 12, 2016, Schererville, Indiana

Carroll Behrhorst ’74H
May 7, 1990, Chimaltenango, Guatemala

Thomas Nagel ’74
September 1, 2015, McHenry, Illinois

Donna Cross ’75
July 15, 2016, Scotts Valley, California

Linda Fry ’76
June 16, 2016, Portage, Indiana

Alfred Johnson ’76
August 14, 2016, Gary, Indiana

Derek Miller ’77
November 28, 2011, California

Kay Mortimer ’77
May 16, 2016, Rochester, Minnesota

Carnecia Clark ’78
April 13, 2016, Gary, Indiana

Lynda Galbiati ’79, ’88
April 9, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana

1980s

Brenda Pearcy ’81
March 30, 2016, Plymouth, Minnesota

Jeffrey Stonebraker ’82
April 7, 2016, Jeffersonville, Indiana

Carolyn Daugherty ’83
October 3, 2015, Ashland, Ohio

Robert Kowalski ’84
July 18, 2016, Chicago, Illinois

Mary Nelson ’85H
September 15, 2015, Crown Point, Indiana

Larry Thrall ’88
August 25, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana

1990s

Laura Long ’91
April 11, 2016, Remington, Indiana

Paul Manz ’92H
October 28, 2009, St. Paul, Minnesota

Ernest Knutzen ’93
July 7, 2013, Princeville, Hawaii

Melinda Stratton ’93
August 18, 2016, Greenville, New York

Paul W. F. Harms ’95H
August 15, 2015, Santa Rosa, California

Jean Elshtain ’96H
August 11, 2013, Nashville, Tenneesse

Victor Freudenburg ’96H
May 10, 2016, Oviedo, Florida

Jaroslav Vajda ’97H
May 10, 2008, Webster Grove, Missouri

2000s

Sage Streck ’04
August 24, 2016, Windsor, Wisconsin

Carlton Holmes ’08
April 12, 2016, Valparaiso, Indiana