Remembering those we lost, 85-89 years old, in the coronavirus pandemic
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Georgia Pearl Lincecum Alebis
Age 88, Texas
Lost on May 6

Graduated from high school at the age of 16


Carole Kaye
Age 87, Boca Raton, Fla.
Lost on Apr 26

Major college donor in Florida


Willie Gene Whitaker
Age 85, Texas
Lost on Apr 21

Longtime educator who was also a police officer


Donald Reed Herring
Age 86, Norman, Okla.
Lost on Apr 21

Brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren


Ruben Burks
Age 86, Flint, Michigan
Lost on Apr 20

Championed the work of women and people of color in the labor movement


Joseph R. LaMarche
Age 87, Worcester, Massachusetts
Lost on Apr 20

'creative and loving'


Arlene Saunders
Age 89, New York City
Lost on Apr 17

Soprano of opera companies in New York and Hamburg


Dolores A. Vail
Age 89, Torrington, Conn.
Lost on Apr 14

Her hobbies included reading, especially cookbooks


Roy Northway Stephens
Age 85, New Canaan, Conn.
Lost on Apr 14

Retail executive who led Selfridges


Vinton Timely Mason
Age 86, Beaumont, Mich.
Lost on Apr 12

Co-owned the Bark-and-All logging company


Stanley L. Morse
Age 88, Stark County, Ohio
Lost on Apr 11

Trombonist who once turned down an offer to join Duke Ellington’s orchestra


Robert Charles Bazzell
Age 88, Novi, Mich.
Lost on Apr 9

Helped drive the family car along Route 66


Helen Molina
Age 85, Washington
Lost on Apr 3

All-around supporter of the Washington Huskies


Clair Dunlap
Age 89, Washington
Lost on Mar 31

Pilot still teaching people to fly at 88


Kenneth R. Going
Age 87, Grafton, Wis.
Lost on Mar 24

Green Bay Packers season ticket holder for 50 years


JoAnn Stokes-Smith
Age 87, Charleston, S.C.
Lost on Mar 20

Loved to travel and covered much of the globe


Donald Raymond Haws
Age 88, Jacksonville, Fla.
Lost on Mar 19

Administered Holy Eucharist to hospital patients


Marion Krueger
Age 85, Kirkland, Wash.
Lost on Feb 26

Great-grandmother with an easy laugh


Dolores M. DeLaurentis
Age 89, Bethlehem, Pa.
Lost on May 15

Social worker and political fundraiser


Rita Paas
Age 88, Comstock Park, Mich.
Lost on May 14

Never missed “Wheel of Fortune,” “Jeopardy” or “Lawrence Welk”


David F. Savitt
Age 86, Ludlow, Mass.
Lost on May 14

A lifelong career with WHIL radio


Cornelia Ann Hunt
Age 87, Virginia Beach
Lost on May 13

Her last words were “thank you”


Nancy Taylor
Age 85, Tinton Falls, N.J.
Lost on May 12

Her famous quote was “I am as good as you are, as bad as I am”


Carmen Rodriguez
Age 85, Windsor Locks, Conn.
Lost on May 12

Enjoyed visiting casinos, playing bingo and scratching lottery tickets


Robert M. Sullivan
Age 88, Springfield, Pa.
Lost on May 12

Proud member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians


Patrick C. Parks
Age 85, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa
Lost on May 12

An Iowa Air National Guardsman


Betty M. Bradshaw
Age 87, Charlottesville, Va.
Lost on May 11

Avid member of the Antique Automobile Club of America


Roland Henry Lacasse
Age 88, Massachusetts
Lost on May 11

Priest who sought “to help people to be happy and holy”


Raymond Gayle Burgett
Age 86, Des Moines
Lost on May 10

Enjoyed delivering day-old bread to church, family and friends


Michael J. Mchugh
Age 88, Philadelphia
Lost on May 10

Lifelong Phillies and Eagles fan


Jeanette Gilmour
Age 86, Marcellus, N.Y.
Lost on May 10

Many will remember her half-moon cookies


Donald Geoffrey Helliwell
Age 86, Westfield, Mass.
Lost on May 8

He trained aboard the first nuclear-powered vessel in the US fleet


Jimmy Glenn
Age 89, Manhattan, N.Y.
Lost on May 7

Former boxing trainer who owned a well-known Times Square bar


Barbara E. Woznicki
Age 85, Newington, Conn.
Lost on May 6

Gave every bit of herself to her family


Betty Eleanor Fennelly
Age 87, Cromwell, Conn.
Lost on May 6

Worked as a school bus driver for 30 years


Harrison Solliday
Age 85, Des Moines
Lost on May 4

Spent countless hours teaching friends how to water ski


Laura Yopp
Age 85, South Windsor, Conn.
Lost on May 4

Known for her respect for animals and her love of physical health


Kenneth A. Rago
Age 85, Pocasset, Mass.
Lost on May 3

Self-taught musician


Edward L. Ghidotti
Age 87, Upper Arlington, Ohio
Lost on May 3

Stockbroker and a great listener


Marjorie P. Tabechian
Age 86, New York
Lost on May 3

Retired head nurse who mastered Persian cooking


Jeanette Marie Baldwin
Age 88, Mingo, Iowa
Lost on May 3

Retired as the postmaster at the Mingo Post Office


Robert William Dietz
Age 86, Michigan
Lost on May 3

Quick with his fists in the ring


Pilar Molina Reyes Rodriques
Age 89, Plantsville, Conn.
Lost on May 3

Blessed with a coloratura soprano voice and loved to sing “Ave Maria”


Rosemary Hoell Rushka
Age 89, San Mateo, Calif.
Lost on May 3

Went to college at 45


Richard L. Houle
Age 86, Bedford, N.H.
Lost on May 2

Epic in every sense of the word


Patricia A. Carrigan
Age 85, Rush County, Ind.
Lost on May 2

Enjoyed serving as registrar with the DAR


Douglas Hanby
Age 86, Shreveport, La.
Lost on May 2

Enjoyed a career in wholesale floorcovering


Marjorie L. Goolsby
Age 89, Marblehead, Mass.
Lost on May 1

Educator who taught many offspring of her former students


Daniel Blume
Age 89, West Hartford, Conn.
Lost on Apr 30

Authored the book “Making It In Radio”


Melita Baker
Age 89, Irvington, N.Y.
Lost on Apr 30

Knew how to make an entrance


Margaret Busha
Age 89, Mystic, Conn.
Lost on Apr 29

Would stay awake on the night shift because she didn’t want anyone to die alone


Frederick Anthony Palazzo
Age 87, Woburn, Mass.
Lost on Apr 29

Enjoyed international, square and round dancing


James E. Mann Jr.
Age 86, Richmond, Va.
Lost on Apr 29

Served in the Marine Corps from 1958 to 1961


Alexander Webster Cruden Jr.
Age 87, New York
Lost on Apr 27

Former students will remember his brush cut and dry humor


Ann Bonville Trombly
Age 88, New York
Lost on Apr 27

Accomplished quilter, calligrapher and gardener


Joseph Colasurdo
Age 85, Jersey City, N.J.
Lost on Apr 26

Loved to watch old Western movies


Richard Daniel Harris
Age 86, Danvers, Mass.
Lost on Apr 26

Had a knack for games of chance


Clyde Addison Reichelderfer
Age 86, Ohio
Lost on Apr 24

Never seemed to know a stranger


John J. Valentine
Age 86, Long Branch, N.J.
Lost on Apr 23

Expert polygraph examiner


Virginia Alice Rauth
Age 85, Lakewood, N.J.
Lost on Apr 23

Taught the fourth and fifth grades


Robert Adam Burns
Age 85, Michigan
Lost on Apr 22

Owned and operated Big Bob’s Pizzerias


Paul Ronald Joseph
Age 87, Forest Hills, N.Y.
Lost on Apr 22

Served in the US Army in Iran and with the CDC fighting cholera in the Philippines


Anthony V. Racka
Age 86, Farmington Hills, Mich.
Lost on Apr 21

Known in English as “Grandpa Boom” and in Lithuanian as “Senelis”


Theodore Robert Zaterka
Age 89, South Windsor, Conn.
Lost on Apr 21

Gardener who won the title of Pickle King


Donald Kennedy
Age 88, Redwood City, Calif.
Lost on Apr 21

Former president of Stanford University


Mary Therese Loughery
Age 89, Abington, Pa.
Lost on Apr 21

Raised five children


Veil David DeVillier
Age 85, Baton Rouge, La.
Lost on Apr 17

Driving force in establishing LSU-Eunice


William E. Jackman
Age 85, Reston, Va.
Lost on Apr 17

Voice of the Naval Academy football stadium for three decades


Elaine Cupka
Age 86, Potomac, Md.
Lost on Apr 16

Delighted in educating thousands of children over three decades


Verla L. Courey
Age 88, South Windsor, Conn.
Lost on Apr 16

Nurse with a love for language


Marlene B. Mandle
Age 88, Collingswood, N.J.
Lost on Apr 15

First woman on her block to work outside the home


Artemis Nazarian
Age 88, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Lost on Apr 9

Opened a Los Angeles preschool


Liudas Karolis Mikalonis
Age 86, Berkley, Mich.
Lost on Apr 7

Immigrated to New York from a German refugee camp after World War II


Ruth Skapinok
Age 85, Roseville, Calif.
Lost on Apr 7

Backyard birds were known to eat from her hand


Robert LeBlanc
Age 87, Cambridge, Mass.
Lost on Apr 6

Worked in construction and served in the Army


Gerard Rosenberg
Age 85, New York City
Lost on Apr 6

Retired New York Supreme Court justice


Harry P. Misthos
Age 87, San Francisco Bay Area, Calif.
Lost on Apr 5

Loved the ocean and enjoyed swimming and boating


Robert Barghaan
Age 88, New York City
Lost on Apr 5

Could fix almost anything


Alice Coopersmith Furst
Age 87, Kentfield, Calif.
Lost on Apr 4

In the first class of girls admitted to the Bronx High School of Science


Terrence George Driscoll
Age 87, Plymouth, Mich.
Lost on Apr 2

Father figure


Ralph Plaisance
Age 87, Massapequa, N.Y.
Lost on Apr 1

“we called him the Grand Poobah”


Angelo Piro
Age 87, New York City
Lost on Mar 30

Known for serenading friends with Tony Bennett songs


Marguerite M. Horgus
Age 86, Sweetgrass, Mont.
Lost on Mar 29

Her hospitality was known throughout Toole County and beyond


Thomas E. Anglin
Age 85, Cumming, Ga.
Lost on Mar 27

Created many wonderful memories for his family


Londia Viola Mongold Deavers
Age 88, Harrisonburg, Va.
Lost on May 10

Made each of her children and grandchildren a quilt


Howard J. Bender
Age 88, Lancaster, Wis.
Lost on May 10

Hauled milk by the can, and later with a bulk milk truck


Mattie F. Adams
Age 89, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Lost on May 9

Admired for her fashion sense, especially her collection of hats


Richard Edward Rutledge
Age 87, Folsom, Calif.
Lost on May 6

Authored many stories, articles, and an unpublished novel


Evelyn Gertrude Brant-Graf
Age 87, Zionsville, Ind.
Lost on May 6

Enjoyed playing euchre with her lifelong girlfriends


Gerald Alton Cook
Age 86, New Jersey
Lost on May 5

Belonged to several fraternal organizations


Durlene Clontz Shuffler
Age 85, Morganton, N.C.
Lost on May 4

Many will miss her infectious, sometimes mischievous laughter


Bennie Webb
Age 85, Bolingbrook, Ill.
Lost on May 2

Vintage Mississippi macho man


Philip Braverman
Age 87, East Northport, N.Y.
Lost on May 2

“uncannily accurate” in his predictions


David E. Carman
Age 89, Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
Lost on May 1

Would give up the shirt on his back if you needed it


Barbara Mae Barham
Age 88, Richmond, Va.
Lost on Apr 28

Worked at American Tobacco for 31 years


Fritz Wilhelm Reisgies
Age 87, Alpine, N.J.
Lost on Apr 27

Master jeweler and goldsmith


Ross L. Saddlemire
Age 87, Port Jefferson, N.Y.
Lost on Apr 26

Worked for the FAA as a flight operations safety officer, retiring at 85


Martha Eddy O’Brien
Age 86, Hartford, Conn.
Lost on Apr 26

Lifelong teacher with a master’s degree in special education


Edith Richemond
Age 88, New York City
Lost on Apr 25

Haitian immigrant with a big heart


Raphael Kaminer
Age 86, New York City
Lost on Apr 25

Spent his working years in the insurance industry


Betty Jean Ringle
Age 87, Idaho
Lost on Apr 24

Had an exceptional recollection of local history


Gerald Slater
Age 86, Washington, D.C.
Lost on Apr 24

Founder of PBS


Marion Klein
Age 87, St. Louis Park, Minn.
Lost on Apr 24

If you asked her to do something, she did it


Gerald Ringdahl
Age 87, North Dakota
Lost on Apr 23

Taught junior high science and math and farmed full time


Ed Smrekar
Age 88, Pennsylvania
Lost on Apr 23

A five-year minor league baseball career


William Harrison Goldman
Age 87, New Jersey
Lost on Apr 23

Vermont shop owner


Joel Rogosin
Age 87, Los Angeles
Lost on Apr 21

Emmy-nominated TV producer behind “Knight Rider” and “Magnum, PI”


Crystal LaBelle
Age 87, Lewiston, Idaho
Lost on Apr 21

Lifetime resident of Lewiston


Gloria Allen Moskowitz
Age 88, Ardmore, Pa.
Lost on Apr 21

Motivating “legend” in a southwest Philadelphia school


Marie A. Detrick
Age 88, Sayre, Pa.
Lost on Apr 20

Her zest for life will live on


Stanley M. Cohen
Age 86, Chevy Chase, Md.
Lost on Apr 20

Worked for more than 40 years at the US Department of Education


Carol Freedman
Age 88, New Rochelle, N.Y.
Lost on Apr 20

Lifelong dedication to family


Ron Waxman
Age 88, Pennsylvania
Lost on Apr 20

Popular figure in the Philadelphia wine and spirits community


Paul R. McQuade
Age 88, Dover, N.H.
Lost on Apr 20

New Hampshire state legislator and Dover City councilman


Frederick Koerner
Age 86, Minnesota
Lost on Apr 20

Loved bird-watching, fishing and listening to music


Beverly J. Plessinger
Age 88, Wooster, Ohio
Lost on Apr 19

Faithful in corresponding through cards and handwritten notes


Roxana Griswold Foreman
Age 85, Richmond, Va.
Lost on Apr 19

Loved playing tennis


Willard John Hoyt
Age 87, Schodack, N.Y.
Lost on Apr 19

Active member and leader of the Taconic Hiking Club


Joseph M. Kissane
Age 89, New York City
Lost on Apr 19

Enjoyed the theaters of New York


John F. Cannon
Age 89, Allentown, Pa.
Lost on Apr 18

Enjoyed attending reunions with fellow sailors


Ruthie Jacqueline Stephens Turner
Age 86, Alabama
Lost on Apr 18

Sympathetic ear


Emma Weigley
Age 87, Philadelphia
Lost on Apr 18

Authored a well-regarded biography of Sarah Tyson Rorer


Bennie G. Adkins
Age 86, Opelika, Ala.
Lost on Apr 17

Medal of Honor winner for Vietnam War heroics


Iris Love
Age 86, New York City
Lost on Apr 17

Stylish archaeologist and champion dachshund breeder


Thomas William Campbell
Age 87, Midlothian, Va.
Lost on Apr 16

A long career as a pharmacist


Albert H. Irwin
Age 86, Brownsville, Ore.
Lost on Apr 15

Worked on construction projects


Stanley Moser
Age 88, Fort Lee, N.J.
Lost on Apr 14

Encyclopedia executive with perfect timing


Rose Mary Infantino
Age 88, Rye Brook, N.Y.
Lost on Apr 13

Daughter of Italian immigrants


Charles Constantino
Age 86, Menlo Park, N.J.
Lost on Apr 11

Worked 40 years for The New York Times


Rosemarie Amerosi
Age 87, New York City
Lost on Apr 9

Retired bank teller


Yaakov Perlow
Age 89, New York City
Lost on Apr 7

Leader of the Novominsker Hasidic dynasty


Robert L. Crahen
Age 87, Waunakee, Wis.
Lost on Apr 6

Nicknamed “Boxcar Bob” for his luck in shaking dice


Paul Warech
Age 86, Vineland, N.J.
Lost on Apr 6

Widely surmised he could have played Major League Baseball


June Beverly Hill
Age 85, Sacramento
Lost on Apr 5

No one made creamed potatoes or fried sweet corn the way she did


Lila A. Fenwick
Age 87, New York City
Lost on Apr 4

First black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School


Ann Youngerman Smoler
Age 87, New York City
Lost on Apr 4

Had a passion for social justice


Judith Plotkin-Goldberg
Age 88, Massachusetts
Lost on Apr 3

Noted voiceover artist for radio and TV


Lula Fitzpatrick
Age 85, Dolton, Ill.
Lost on Apr 3

Part of a tightknit family


Lucius Hall
Age 87, Chicago
Lost on Apr 2

Dubbed the “pistol-packing preacher”


Anita Fial
Age 87, New York City
Lost on Apr 2

Marketing expert who brought exotic foods to green grocers


Patricia Bosworth
Age 86, New York City
Lost on Apr 2

Actress who wrote biographies of famous friends


Ellis Marsalis
Age 85, New Orleans
Lost on Apr 1

Jazz pianist and patriarch of a family of musicians


David Driskell
Age 88, Hyattsville, Md.
Lost on Apr 1

Champion of African-American art


Frederick Brown Starr
Age 87, Greensboro, N.C.
Lost on Apr 1

Liked the mental challenges of business


Alby Kass
Age 89, California
Lost on Mar 31

Lead singer of a Yiddish folk group


Alberto Castro
Age 86, Melrose Park, Ill.
Lost on Mar 30

Made time to create and listen to music


Joseph Micajah Thomas II
Age 88, New York City
Lost on Mar 29

Represented theatrical, TV and movie personalities


Herman Boehm
Age 86, Florida
Lost on Mar 29

Retired architect always eager to travel


Robert Rust
Age 88, Greensburg, Ind.
Lost on Mar 28

Competitive athlete, up until his last years


Harvey Bayard
Age 88, New York
Lost on Mar 28

Grew up directly across the street from the old Yankee Stadium


Freddy Rodriguez Sr.
Age 89, Denver
Lost on Mar 25

Played the saxophone at Denver’s oldest jazz club for 40 years


Christine McLaurin
Age 86, Chicago
Lost on Mar 25

Never at a loss for words


Robert Earl Schaefer
Age 87, Seattle
Lost on Mar 25

Radiologist, woodworker, artist and scholar