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