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     Those classmates who have passed away helped define the unique character of our class. This page is dedicated to the memory of each of them. 
     We have tried to provide a complete listing of those classmates who have passed away. In many cases, we have the dates of their deaths. In some, we have been fortunate to obtain their printed obituaries. In others, we only know that sadly, they are no longer with us. 
     The editors welcome additional information about any of our deceased classmates. We will try and keep this listing as current  and as accurate as possible. We invite you to help us with this difficult task. Posthumous tributes are always appropriate.




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Ralph Ballweg

May 27th, 1942 to April 22nd, 1993


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James O. Beach

September 28th, 1942 to December 9th, 2005


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Gwendolyn Boda

September 5th, 1942 to March 1st, 1977


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John D. Bodine

September 27th, 1942 to June 30th, 2002


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Robert Joseph Brophy

1941 to 2010


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Carol Bruchac (Worthen)

December 2nd, 1942 to March 15th, 2011

Posted on the website of the Ndakinna Education Center website prior to Carol's passing:

Carol Bruchac - Treasurer

Without Carol, we would not have Ndakinna (or for that matter, its Director, James). She is a constant source of guidance, organizational support, and wisdom. Along with her husband, Joe, she is the founder and Co-Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center from which The Ndakinna Education Center evolved.

Joseph Bruchac - Executive Director
Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Syracuse and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Union Institute of Ohio. With his wife, Carol, he is the founder and Co-Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center from which The Ndakinna Education Center evolved. For more information, please visit Joe's website.

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Judith A. Camin (Hughes)

April 4th, 1942 to September 1st, 2002


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Benna Joy Canny (DeYoung)

October 11th, 1942 to December 30th, 2009


Marilyn Trapp Buckmaster contributed this Facebook message from Benna Joy written just months before her untimely death in December 2009:

      Ok lets try again. First Mary Belle did send a "be my friend "request and I
      accepted it. So I am sure that I will hear from her soon.
 
      Now here goes. After graduation from high school I worked for my dad for
      2 years. but got tired of that and irony of irony. I who hated High
      School decided that I would go back to college. I started part time at
      Ithaca College and ended up getting my degree at a small Quaker college in
      Iowa in 1068. Unfortunately, my dad died of cancer the year before so he
      never got to see me finish or to meet my husband.
 
      I came home and worked as a fourth grade teacher for three years in a
      small district near Auburn. In 1971 I married Jim (37 years hard to
      believe) who I met in Iowa. So college was a great decision! We moved
      to Minn. and stayed there for 2 years where I earned my Masters, before we
      moved to Missouri. I taught for about half a year before I left to have
      Jennifer, We did not really enjoy Missouri weather people etc. So moved back
      to Minn. where Jim was a newscaster on the radio for several years,
      before he decided to change jobs and went to work at the phone company. 
      Two years after Jennifer we had Jefferson to be followed in two years by
      Jessica. Decided that was enough, well 2 was enough but Jessica was
      welcomed as the frosting on the cake.
 
      I went back to teaching when Jeff was a baby. In 1983 we decided that we
      would like to be closer to my mom as she had moved to Vermont with Ron
      when we got married. So Jim got transfered through the phone company and
      we settled in Manchester NH. After 2 years of subbing I went full time
      and taught for 20 years. I retired in 2005 just in time to find out that I
      had stage 2 breast cancer. I went through all the treatments, chemo,
      surgery and radiation. And can say that I am 2 years cancer free.
 
      Now for more irony, for the last 27 years of teaching, I was a special
      education teacher, spent all that time teaching LD students and it really
      tore me apart to hear the problems that your son had getting an education.
       He would have been one of my students and you can bet I would have fought for his educational rights. 
 
      Any way, all of my kids are married and live within 40 miles of us........
 
      I still enjoy sewing (even made Jessica's wedding gown) knitting
      crocheting, any and all crafts. But I have added reading to my list of
      important things to do in day. 
 
      Ron and Ann are still married, they live in Vermont where Ron retired from
      GE several years ago. They have two boys who of course are married and
      the have a grand son and daughter. I have trouble believing that they
      have been married almost 50 years. Amazing.
 
      Not sure what else I had included in my first letter but this should
      catch you up for now, (am making a copy of this to send to any one else
      you hook me up with)
      Always
      Joy
Submiited by : Marilyn Trapp Buckmaster

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William Clapp

December 21st, 1942 to November 28th, 2008


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Bonnie Lee Clift (Huntley)

August 12th, 1942 to April 17th, 2009


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Gail M. Colpays (Holley)

November 14th, 1942 to July 28th, 2003


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Patricia Comstock (Vicedomini)

June 2nd, 1942 to October 23rd, 1999


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Joan Marie Crace

August 21st, 1942 to January 4th, 2009


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Jean deForest


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Robert F. Denison

August 7th, 1942 to March 3rd, 2000


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Donald F. Dickinson

August 13th, 1942 to January 22nd, 1997


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Linda Ewing (Hurd)

March 13th, 1942 to July 19th, 2000




Ella Jean Fitzpatrick

February 5th, 1942 to -


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James L. Fowler

November 16th, 1942 to October 15th, 2001


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William Hamrick


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Thomas Reid Jones

May 12th, 1942 to June 26th, 2000


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Stephen H. Judson

August 21st, 1942 to April 25th, 2001


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Charles J. Korherr

October 5th, 1942 to July 16th, 2007


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William Laidlaw

September 8th, 1942 to August 7th, 2009

  
 

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August Leonard

1942 to 1957


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Millicent Luoma (Senno)

October 10th, 1942 to December 19th, 1989


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John K. MacNab

- to October 27th, 1992

"John Kahler MacNab helped raise nearly $15 million for the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation in Seattle., including the nation's first urban Head Start and "street youth" programs for Native Americans....................Mr. MacNab worked at United Indians from 1977 through 1990, including three years in the early 1980s as its planning director."

The above was taken from an October 30, 1992, Seattle Times article.

Mr. MacNab graduated from Cornell University, and received a Master's Degree in English Literature from the University of Washington.

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Alice Mann


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Joseph G. Mars

June 5th, 1942 to December 13th, 2007


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Ralph Marsit


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Bruce Kim McPherson

April 18th, 1942 to October 18th, 2001


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Frederick Stewart Meils

November 21st, 1941 to August 11th, 2002


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Judy Miller


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Arthur F. Milligan

December 9th, 1942 to May 29th, 1988


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Charles Murphy

August 16th, 1942 to August 10th, 2009


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William Nelson

December 28th, 1942 to June 8th, 1970


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Claudine Catherine O'Hara


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Nancy Palmer (Hill)

- to 2000


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Daniel J. Raponi

May 30th, 1942 to January 11th, 2002


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Joan Reigle (Poolevorde)

March 15th, 1942 to December 9th, 2006


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Sandra Rumsey




Edward Rundle

June 21st, 1941 to September 2nd, 2002


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Josef Oscar Schmidt

March 4th, 1942 to July 15th, 2007


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Victoria A. Schultz (Knapp)


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Judith Shaw

- to June 22nd, 1990


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Beverly J. Shearer (Beyeler)

September 27th, 1942 to April 21st, 2006


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David Sherwood

September 13th, 1942 to February 11th, 2000


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Norman E. Sickler

January 26th, 1943 to November 4th, 2008


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Constance Smith

July 6th, 1942 to April 3rd, 2004


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Alice Mae Snyder (LaBarr)

- to April 17th, 2011


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Sheila Sponable (Lane)

October 23rd, 1942 to July 17th, 2011


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Charles Sweet

June 23rd, 1942 to March 30th, 2009


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Grace Swoger (Buchanan)

May 15th, 1942 to November 28th, 2002


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James Thoumire

December 23rd, 1942 to January 15th, 1991


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Dale Townley

September 22nd, 1942 to August 6th, 1993


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Gary Vandebogart

November 27th, 1940 to January 9th, 2006


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John Vicedomini

January 27th, 1941 to September 28th, 2001



U.S. Veterans Gravesites, about John B Vicedomini

Name:John B Vicedomini
Service Info.:PFC US ARMY
Birth Date:27 Jan 1941
Death Date:28 Sep 2001
Cemetery:Calvary Cemetery
Cemetery Address:Ithaca, NY 14850

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Samuel Weber

March 29th, 1942 to August 3rd, 1995


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James A. "Jimmy" West

May 25th, 1942 to June 7th, 2010

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Frederick "Porky" Wilcox, Jr.

July 15th, 1942 to May 13th, 1983


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Robin Williams, III

October 11th, 1942 to April 28th, 1984


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Dean Winkelblech

August 7th, 1942 to June 18th, 2008


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