Memoriam
In Memoriam: members of the Bates community
updated May 13, 2013
This site is updated regularly to record the deaths of members of the Bates community.
The people listed on this memorial page will be honored at the 2013 Alumni Memorial Service, a time of worship in celebration of Bates men and women who have died during the past year. The service is June 9, 2013.
If you have questions about Bates alumni who are listed here, please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 1-888-522-8371 or alumni@bates.edu.
Class Years to 1939
Alfred Chester Webber ’28, Aug. 8, 2012 (recorded Aug. 10, 2012)
Grace Sibley Hatch Perkins ’30, July 7, 2012 (recorded July 9, 2012)
Jeanette Cutts ’30, Oct. 10, 2012 (recorded Dec. 12, 2012)
Martha Josephine Verrill Swain ’31, Nov. 14, 2012 (recorded Dec. 4, 2012)
Althea Howe Adelhelm ’32, Jan. 12, 2013 (recorded Jan. 18, 2013)
Elden Herbert Dustin ’32, Aug. 6, 2012 (recorded Aug. 13, 2012)
Dorothy Sullivan Higgins ’32, Jan. 9, 2013 (recorded Jan. 22, 2013)
Verna Brackett Kirby ’34, Feb. 3, 2013 (recorded Feb. 4, 2013)
Ruth Carter Zervas ’34, Aug. 12, 2011 (recorded June 18, 2012)
Irene Linehan Sutton ’34, May 7, 2010 (recorded June 18, 2012)
Elsie M. Gervais ’35, Jan. 1, 2013 (recorded Jan. 4, 2013)
William Scolnik ’35, Jan. 22, 2013 (recorded Jan. 24, 2013)
Montgomery Farrington ’36, Dec. 11, 2012 (recorded Dec. 20, 2012)
Rita Brown Hickey ’36, July 8, 2012 (recorded July 11, 2012)
Elizabeth Stevens Earle ’37, Dec. 18, 2012 (recorded Jan. 2, 2013)
William DeWitt Metz ’37, Feb. 11, 2013 (recorded Feb. 15, 2013)
Elizabeth A. Gregory ’38, Oct. 30, 2012 (recorded Nov. 26, 2012)
Irene Lee Quill ’38, Jan. 28, 2011 (recorded June 20, 2012)
Edith Wier Prohaska ’38, Sept. 22, 2012 (recorded Oct. 29, 2012)
Hope Flanders Bailiff ’39, Jan. 9, 2013 (recorded Jan. 14, 2013)
Earl Robert Kinney ’39, May 2, 2013 (recorded May 3, 2013)
Arthur Graves Wilder ’39, Oct. 12, 2012 (recorded Oct. 19, 2012)
Class Years 1940–49
Bertha M. “Bee” Bucklin ’40, Nov. 1, 2012 (recorded Nov. 5, 2012)
Harry Buffum “Shep” Shepherd ’40, Aug. 30, 2012 (recorded Sept. 4, 2012)
Barbara Abbott Hall ’41, Aug. 19, 2012 (recorded Aug. 23, 2012)
Selma Viola Bliss Stevens Clark ’41, Nov. 7, 2012 (recorded Nov. 13, 2012)
George Elliott Coorssen ’41, May 10, 2012 (recorded June 22, 2012)
Nancy Field Ahlquist ’41, April 24, 2013 (recorded April 29, 2013)
Anna Ford Peaslee ’41, Feb. 2, 2013 (recorded Feb. 14, 2013)
Raymond Emerson Ressler ’41, Nov. 15, 2010 (recorded June 20, 2012)
Richard Arthur Wall ’41, April 30, 2013 (recorded May 7, 2013)
George Seymour Chaletzky ’42, May 24, 2011 (recorded June 20, 2012)
Eleanora Keene Dalton ’42, July 14, 2012 (recorded Jan. 15, 2013)
Francesca Harlow Evans ’42, June 13, 2012 (recorded Sept. 10, 2012)
Ruth Wyer Haines ’42, Feb. 19, 2013 (recorded Feb. 27, 2013)
Albert Raymond Harvey ’42, Feb. 6, 2013 (recorded Feb. 13, 2013)
Lucille Leonard “Lennie” Jewell ’42, Dec. 31, 2012 (recorded Jan. 4, 2013)
Lloyd George Morrison ’42, March 29, 2013 (recorded April 10, 2013)
Barbara M. Stanhope ’42, Dec. 10, 2012 (recorded Dec. 13, 2012)
Lucile Moussette Beckmeyer ’43, Dec. 18, 2012 (recorded April 9, 2013)
Myles Standish Delano ’43, Oct. 2, 2011 (recorded June 21, 2012)
Elizabeth Avery Palmer ’43, Feb. 10, 2013 (recorded Feb. 14, 2013)
Patricia Peterson Rawson ’43, Feb. 10, 2012 (recorded June 20, 2012)
Thomas Capron Winston ’43, April 10, 2013 (recorded April 17, 2013)
Ivan A. Knutsen, V-12, April 11, 2013 (recorded April 16, 2013)
Despina Doukas Athans ’44, Jan. 13, 2013 (recorded Jan. 17, 2013)
Marjorie Jean Childs Black ’44, Feb. 2, 2013 (recorded March 7, 2013)
Alice Hinton Blakely ’44, Jan. 6, 2010 (recorded June 22, 2012)
Osmond Richard Cummings ’44, Jan. 15, 2013 (recorded Jan. 17, 2013)
Edmund Howe “Tod” Gibson ’44, Dec. 9, 2012 (recorded Dec. 12, 2012)
Robert Fall Goodspeed ’44, Feb. 14, 2010 (recorded June 21, 2012)
Clifford Everett Larrabee ’44, June 5, 2012 (recorded June 8, 2012)
Ervin Lewis Perkins ’44, May 23, 2012 (recorded June 1, 2012)
Louise Otis Smith ’44, March 2, 2013 (recorded March 7, 2013)
Jane Evelyn Rawson Tompkins ’44, April 8, 2012 (recorded July 31, 2012)
Meredith Gilbert Williams Jr. ’44, June 29, 2012 (recorded Aug. 2, 2012)
Franklin Seymour Burroughs ’45, July 29, 2012 (recorded Aug. 8, 2012)
Olive Wise FitzGerald ’45, June 15, 2012 (recorded June 26, 2012)
Clifford Warren Gates ’45, Dec. 27, 2012 (recorded Jan. 7, 2013)
Harold Judah Hurwitz ’45, May 30, 2012 (recorded July 9, 2012)
Edwin Wilson Tooker ’45, Feb. 26, 2013 (recorded March 12, 2013)
Evelyn Virginia Rutledge Alexander ’46, June 22, 2012 (recorded July 18, 2012)
Leslie John Anderson ’46, March 17, 2012 (recorded June 26, 2012)
Constance A. Lane ’46, June 14, 2012 (recorded June 25, 2012)
Elizabeth Marie Morse ’46, April 29, 2013 (recorded April 30, 2013)
Constance Wood Norte ’46, Dec. 11, 2012 (recorded Dec. 19, 2012)
Janet Sunn Paskewitz ’46, March 10, 2013 (recorded March 13, 2013)
Richard Lee Baldwin ’47, June 21, 2012 (recorded July 9, 2012)
Robert Shackleton Blake ’47, July 27, 2011 (recorded July 11, 2012)
Jacqueline Coventry Davis ’47, December 23, 2012 (recorded April 15, 2013)
Edith Lydia Hary ’47, March 26, 2013 (recorded April 22, 2013)
Raymond Walden Hobbs ’47, Aug. 5, 2012 (recorded Aug. 15, 2012)
Elizabeth Hill Jarvi ’47, July 1, 2012 (recorded July 9, 2012)
John Frederick Stone ’47, March 10, 2013 (recorded March 12, 2013)
William Alan Chamberlain ’48, Jan. 15, 2013 (recorded Jan. 31, 2013)
Jane L. Cathcart ’48, April 22, 2012 (recorded June 12, 2012)
John Gaffney ’48, Aug. 4, 2012 (recorded Aug. 13, 2012)
Wayne Lester Sweatt ’48, Dec. 9, 2010 (recorded Sept. 19, 2012)
Robert William Towse ’48, March 11, 2013 (recorded March 12, 2013)
Elaine Gray Barlow ’49, Feb. 3, 2013 (recorded March 7, 2013)
Laura DeMarco Belsky ’49, June 13, 2012 (recorded June 25, 2012)
Thelma Smith Blake ’49, Oct. 10, 2012 (recorded Oct. 16, 2012)
Donald Ralph Feeley ’49, Jan. 30, 2011 (recorded June 22, 2012)
Harris Lee Goldman ’49, June 6, 2012 (recorded June 18, 2012)
Hugh Mitchell ’49, Dec. 18, 2012 (recorded Jan. 2, 2013)
Edgar Ernest “Ned” Noel ’49, May 10, 2012 (recorded June 1, 2012)
John Arthur Palmer Jr. ’49, Oct. 23, 2012 (recorded Nov. 14, 2012)
Emina Paladino “Al” Ravalese ’49, Oct. 16, 2012 (recorded March 25, 2013)
Elaine Smith Swanton ’49, July 23, 2012 (recorded Jan. 15, 2013)
Nicholas Valoras ’49, Nov. 18, 2012 (recorded Dec. 3, 2012)
Class Years 1950–59
Esther “Tess” Freese Tardy ’50, Dec. 3, 2012 (recorded Dec. 12, 2012)
Betty Ann Daniels Towle ’50, Jan. 14, 2012 (recorded July 27, 2012)
Maurice James O’Connell ’51, July 1, 2012 (recorded July 9, 2012)
Robert Read Hayward ’51, March 26, 2012 (recorded Oct. 25, 2012)
Barbara Schenck Collins ’51, April 30, 2013 (recorded May 3, 2013)
Leo Edward Begin ’52, Oct. 31, 2012 (recorded Nov. 6, 2012)
Priscilla King Bergier ’52, April 1, 2013 (recorded April 8, 2013)
Elizabeth Townsend Henderson ’52, June 25, 2012 (recorded July 10, 2012)
John Robert Manter ’52, Sept. 28, 2012 (recorded Oct. 8, 2012)
James Madison Nabrit III ’52, March 22, 2013 (recorded March 27, 2013)
Elizabeth Driscoll Bodwell ’53, Sept. 8, 2012 (recorded Sept. 12, 2012)
Paul Eustace Brunnell Field Jr. ’53, May 9, 2012 (recorded July 18, 2012)
Richard David Holbrook ’53, Oct. 27, 2012 (recorded Nov. 12, 2012)
Virginia Frances Keith ’53, July 23, 2012 (recorded Aug. 20, 2012)
Kathryn Burdon Naegeli ’53, Feb. 23, 2013 (recorded March 15, 2013)
Gordon Vinton Perkins ’53, April 9, 2013 (recorded April 30, 2013)
David Maylor Purdy ’53, Nov. 26, 2012 (recorded Dec. 3, 2012)
Emerson Benjamin “Bunny” Rodgers ’53, July 15, 2012 (recorded July 30, 2012)
Francis Charles Hine ’54, Feb. 16, 2013 (recorded Feb. 21, 2013)
Irving Upton Knight ’54, November 13, 2012 (recorded April 15, 2013)
Edith White Mason ’54, Jan. 20, 2013 (recorded Jan. 25, 2013)
Peter Ray Sutton ’54, Sept. 13, 2012 (recorded Sept. 27, 2012)
Marianne Webber Brenton ’55, Feb. 10, 2013 (recorded Feb. 12, 2013)
Donald Miller Bridgeforth ’55, Feb. 11, 2012 (recorded June 8, 2012)
Christina Dawson Conley ’55, Oct. 18, 2012 (recorded Oct. 30, 2012)
Arlene Hammond Ertmer ’55, Feb. 15, 2013 (recorded Feb. 19, 2013)
Clifford O. T. Wieden Jr. ’55, Nov. 22, 2012 (recorded Dec. 3, 2012)
Barry Allan Gundling Greenfield ’56, Aug. 20, 2012 (recorded Aug. 22, 2012)
Robert Earl Taylor ’56, Oct. 10, 2012 (recorded Oct. 16, 2012)
Philip Raoul Tetu II ’56, April 7, 2013 (recorded April 9, 2013)
Russell Blaine Tiffany ’56, July 30, 2012 (recorded Oct. 25, 2012)
Ernest Monroe Crawford ’57, Aug. 4, 2012 (recorded Oct. 4, 2012)
Armand Richard L. Croteau ’57, Jan. 18, 2013 (recorded Jan. 30, 2013)
Richard Herman Davignon ’57, July 20, 2012 (recorded Aug. 15, 2012)
Mark Bertram Godfried ’57, Dec. 11, 2012 (recorded Dec. 20, 2012)
Alan Van Orden Cook ’58, Oct. 17, 2012 (recorded Oct. 19, 2012)
Barry Pepperrell Moores ’58, Feb. 11, 2013 (recorded Feb. 18, 2013)
Paul Charles St. Hilaire ’58, Dec. 11, 2012 (recorded April 9, 2013)
Donald King Watson Jr. ’58, July 21, 2012 (recorded July 23, 2012)
Elizabeth Cook Miller ’59, March 21, 2013 (recorded March 25, 2013)
James Francis Ring ’59, March 15, 2010 (recorded Dec. 20, 2012)
Richard Earl Shearer ’59, May 21, 2012 (recorded June 11, 2012)
Class Years 1960–69
Frances Scarpace Annello ’60, Oct. 21, 2012 (recorded March 25, 2013)
Charles Edward Flagg ’60, Jan. 22, 2013 (recorded Jan. 28, 2013)
James Edward Gallons Jr. ’60, Feb. 16, 2013 (recorded Feb. 22, 2013)
Philip Arden Snell ’60, Sept. 5, 2012 (recorded Feb. 21, 2013)
Rosemary Cousins-Thombs ’61, Feb. 21, 2013 (recorded Feb. 27, 2013)
Barbara Naiman Gee ’61, Dec. 25, 2012 (recorded Jan. 2, 2013)
Neil Jay Newman ’61, Sept. 5, 2012 (recorded Sept. 10, 2012)
DeWitt Stearns “Randy” Randall ’61, Sept. 24, 2012 (recorded Oct. 3, 2012)
Catherine Harwood Shepard ’61, Nov. 9, 2012 (recorded Nov. 14, 2012)
Herbert Donald Morton ’62, Dec. 11, 2012 (recorded Jan. 7, 2013)
Walter Herman Rand Jr. ’62, Aug. 4, 2012 (recorded Aug. 8, 2012)
Jonathan Colby Peabody ’64, May 24, 2012 (recorded May 29, 2012)
William Clair Beisswanger ’66, Oct. 21, 2012 (recorded Oct. 24, 2012)
Susan Francis Coiner ’67, July 31, 2012 (recorded Aug. 2, 2012)
Elizabeth Harman Johnson ’67, Oct. 2, 2012 (recorded Nov. 9, 2012)
Class Years 1970–79
Ruth Batson Weston ’70, Oct. 15, 2012 (recorded Oct. 25, 2012)
Stephen Lewis Griswold ’70, Feb. 10, 2013 (recorded Feb. 15, 2013)
Susan E. Tetro ’70, Aug. 5, 2012 (recorded Nov. 6, 2012)
Peter Folsom Hutchins ’71, June 14, 2012 (recorded June 20, 2012)
George N. Schumer ’71, May 29, 2012 (recorded June 5, 2012)
Bryce Kent Carpenter Jr. ’72, April 25, 2013 (recorded April 30, 2013)
Christine Casey Piattelli ’73, Sept. 3, 2012 (recorded Sept. 24, 2012)
Lorraine Diaz Smith ’74, Dec. 18, 2010 (recorded March 4, 2013)
Kevin Barry Haines ’75, Feb. 25, 2013 (recorded Feb. 27, 2013)
Carol Champion Malinowski ’75, Dec. 16, 2012 (recorded Dec. 19, 2012)
Roy Reitsma ’75, July 25, 2012 (recorded May 13, 2013)
Polly O’Neill Howlett ’76, Nov. 21, 2011 (recorded June 26, 2012)
Michele Louise Dionne ’77, July 4, 2012 (recorded July 17, 2012)
Frederick Wheeler “Fritz” Hayes Jr. ’77, Sept. 17, 2012 (recorded Sept. 24, 2012)
Alex Jose Bermudez ’79, Oct. 8, 2012 (recorded Oct. 10, 2012)
Class Years 1980–89
Philip Thomas Cullen Jr. ’81, Jan. 8, 2013 (recorded Jan. 11, 2013)
Edward Joseph Walsh III ’82, Jan. 23, 2013 (recorded Jan. 28, 2013)
Charlene Keable Blodgett ’83, Sept. 17, 2012 (recorded Sept. 20, 2012)
Marjorie Ann Needham ’84, Jan. 26, 2013 (recorded Feb. 12, 2013)
Class Years 1990–2001
William Zeus Bligh-Glover ’90, Oct. 30, 2011 (recorded July 25, 2012)
Mary Elizabeth Marshall ’91, November 20, 2012 (recorded April 12, 2013)
Rommel Wora Akona Padonou ’01, Dec. 11, 2012 (recorded Dec. 15, 2012)
Student
Troy Jonathan James Pappas ’16, Oct. 5, 2012 (recorded Oct. 9, 2012)
Faculty
Roy Lothrop Farnsworth, professor emeritus of geology, July 18, 2012 (recorded July 18, 2012)
Staff
Romeo R. Breton, retired Dining Services, March 19, 2013 (recorded March 21, 2013)
Herbert Bunker Jr., retired Athletics, May 5, 2013 (recorded May 9, 2013)
Fern M. Desjardin, retired Admission, April 28, 2013 (recorded April 30, 2013)
Clifton H. Dow, retired Facility Services, Oct. 3, 2012 (recorded Oct. 3, 2012)
Ernest R. LaBrie, retired Athletics, Nov. 30, 2012 (recorded Nov. 30, 2012)
Eva F. Rouleau, retired Dining Services, Oct. 9, 2012 (recorded Oct. 9, 2012)
Hollis C. Winslow, retired Facility Services, April 7, 2013 (recorded April 10, 2013)
Mae G. Young, retired Dining Services, June 23, 2012 (recorded June 23, 2012)