Spring 2026 Obituaries

Includes death notices reported by December 1, 2025.

’47

• William Zachary Taylor on June 5, 2025

’48

• Jean Sayres Westsik on September 15, 2025

’51

• Jeanne Newsom Challener on October 7, 2025
• Patricia Hummer Geisendorfer on July 10, 2025
• Barbara Woodward Vaughan on October 17, 2025

’52

• James Boddorf on August 1, 2025

’53

• Darrell Flint Duffield on August 17, 2025
• Jean Freeman Gabrielse on September 3, 2025
• Catherine “Be-Be” Dodworth Stroebel on August 10, 2025

’54

• Virginia “Ginny” Tadross Warschauer on June 3, 2025

’55

• Susan Shields Reis on June 25, 2025
• Carol Montana Tartaglione on June 18, 2025

’56

• Shirley Mertz Arther on July 23, 2025
• Samuel Biondolillo on July 9, 2025
• Richard “Dick” Burdsall on March 30, 2025
• George Alfred Palmer lll on August 14, 2025
• Dorothy Zittel Lennox on June 21, 2025

’57

• Joan Keller Adams on May 1, 2025
• Douglas Bedell on July 8, 2025
• Robert “Mike” Glenn on June 7, 2025
• John Park on September 21, 2025
• John Thompson on October 23, 2025

’58

• Mary Braglio Benson on October 19, 2025
• Dr. James F. Bisset, Jr. on July 7, 2025
• Philip Waddington on May 31, 2025
• Marilyn “Sis” Cunningham Warren on July 9, 2025
• Dr. James Zaccardi on July 6, 2025

’59

• Richard Burrows on October 23, 2025
• Judith Waters Hartman on May 14, 2025
• Susanne Graff Henderson on October 25, 2025
• Sue Wolf Larimer on August 30, 2025

’60

• Marjorie Laffer Cull on June 16, 2025
• Dr. Robert Goodkin on November 22, 2025
• Ronald Watson on June 17, 2025
• Joel Wynne on June 5, 2025

’61

• Harry Black on November 12, 2025
• Dr. Edward David on September 2, 2025
• William “Bill” M. Kennedy, Jr. on April 17, 2024
• Anne Herzog LaMotte on June 9, 2025
• Peter Ross on September 4, 2025
• Nancy Gilardi Taylor on September 11, 2025
• Nick Vukmer on September 14, 2025
• Lynne Farr Wohleber on October 25, 2025

’62

• Eleanor Smith Montgomery on July 7, 2025

’63

• Barbara Beacham Anderson on November 9, 2025
• Sue Greene Cowell on June 7, 2025
• John “Jack” Davis on October 26, 2025
• Kathryn Brown Duhrsen Jennett on September 24, 2025
• Jerome “Jerry” Messina on November 9, 2025
• John Stanford on October 3, 2025

’64

• Jill Guthrie Franks on November 16, 2025
• Timothy Fulton on October 22, 2025

’65

• Warren Keck on September 29, 2025
• Franklin McNulty on October 19, 2025
• Ann Stoops Thomas on July 7, 2025

’66

• John Burdick on August 11, 2025
• David Wuertzer on June 16, 2025

’67

• Sol Loeser on August 28, 2025
• Michael Ranney on July 27, 2025
• Dr. William G. Reeves on August 22, 2025

’68

• Mary “Kay” Goodwin on November 7, 2025
• Paul Marmon on April 9, 2025
• Donna Shimler Shockley on July 11, 2025

’71

• Kay Laube O’Connell on July 30, 2025
• Nancy Riedel on June 12, 2025

’73

• Leah Taifer Brickner on June 6, 2025
• John D. Brooks on August 28, 2025
• Claire Hartwig Coppola on June 27, 2025
• Dr. James Gallo on November 23, 2025
• Thomas Mould on September 16, 2025

’75

• Susan Heidinger Colvin on July 3, 2025

’77

• Lynn Christensen Allred on July 25, 2025
• James Tierney on October 28, 2025

’79

• Patrick W. Martin, Esq. on October 26, 2025
• Laura Scales Wallace on September 21, 2025

’82

• Mary-Susan Sullivan Ayre on July 18, 2025

’83

• Mark Hanson on November 10, 2025

’86

• Sandra Garbowicz David on July 15, 2025

’90

• Wilder Bancroft on September 26, 2025

’92

• Amy Ruff Mahen on October 3, 2025

Friends

• Dr. Kenneth “Bud” G. Ainsworth
  Retiree, Professor Emeritus of Economics
  Dr. Kenneth George Ainsworth, professor emeritus of economics, passed away at 102 in his sleep on November 12, 2025, in Athens, Georgia.Dr. Ainsworth, born July 13, 1923, the oldest of nine children, was born and raised on his parents’ dairy farm near Shawano, Wisconsin. After serving as a meteorologist in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and master’s degree in 1949) and went on to earn a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1957. While at Madison he met his future wife, Audrey Lacroix. They were married for 65 years until her passing in 2016.Dr. Ainsworth taught economics at Bowdoin College for several years before joining the faculty at Allegheny, where he stayed for over 30 years. During his tenure he spent two years as an economist with the U.S. Congressional Committee on Judiciary analyzing tax law. He also consulted for Alaska, New York City, and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Upon retiring from Allegheny, he and Audrey enjoyed a 25-year retirement on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. After his wife’s death, Dr. Ainsworth split his time between Athens, Georgia, and Cape Cod.Allegheny colleague Jonathan Helmreich, retired professor emeritus of history who became Dr. Ainsworth’s dean, described him as “a loyal and trusted member of the Economics Department and overall faculty.”Dr. Ainsworth is survived by his children, Thomas Ainsworth (Paula Davidson) of Burke, Virginia; Leslie Dakik (Ali Dakik) of Beirut, Lebanon; and Scott Ainsworth (Susan Nees) of Athens, Georgia; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He is also survived by five siblings, Phyllis Ward, Crystal Sandmire, Peetie Buchner, John Ainsworth, and Pat (Tim) McGuire.
• Rebecca “Becky” Borthwick-Aiken on October 1, 2025
• Dr. Jonathon J. May on December 9, 2025
• Dorothy Lowe Nieweg on August 15, 2025
• James Patterson on June 20, 2025
• Karen Stone on October 8, 2025