In Memoriam

In Memoriam   

This page helps us remember those wonderful classmates we have lost over the years.  It also provides information on additional ways to honor them.

The Smith Quarterly will no longer publish obituaries, but you can find obituaries and tributes at this site, under “Class Documents”:

  1. Volume 2 of our 50th reunion classbook, Our Odysseys, includes those we lost up to 2019: click here.

  2. An ongoing “In Memoriam” addendum lists more recent losses: click here. To add your own memories, please email Gale Eaton.

A gift in memory of these classmates – or in memory of others who were important in your Smith journey – recalls a special relationship we shared.  Memorial gifts of any size are appreciated and can be sent directly to Smith College Gift Accounting, 33 Elm Street, Northampton MA, 01063. It helps to add Class of 1969 and relationship to the deceased.  For more information or to make gifts online, click here.

Please contact Class Memorial Chairs Joyce Moran or Lisa Henderson Rosenbloom with any additional input for this page or other suggestions.

Current list of deceased classmates:

  • Valentine Ackerman — 2/14/2005

  • Sheila Berman — 5/15/2002

  • Diana Hibbard Bitz — 6/17/2010

  • Elizabeth Blakey — 5/1/2006

  • Deborah Jacobs Brosgol — 9/2/2015

  • Gaye Brown — 11/30/2019

  • Diana Buitron-Oliver — 4/29/2002

  • B. Sharon Byrd — 3/14/2014

  • Kathleen Carlson — 2/24/2013

  • Joanna Buffum Chamberlin — 9/14/2017

  • Terry Clark — 1/19.2021

  • Kathrine Cleveland — 2/17/2013

  • Emily Couric — 10/18/2001

  • B. Gale Curtis — 6/17/1969

  • Adrian Fogel Curtis — 8/18/2002

  • Marcia Curtis — 9/26/2023

  • Sarah Laubshire de Brabander — 11/11/2015

  • Kathleen Murray Doherty — 5/15/2023

  • Leslie Arends Eckel — 2/21/2010

  • Elizabeth Fuller — 3/14/1974

  • Mary Gibbons — 5/12/2017

  • Mary Seibert Goldschmid — 1/12/2024

  • Patricia Goodyear –11/10/1986

  • Bonnie Gordon — 10/1/1993

  • Mary Hayward — 7/25/2020

  • Susan Heyer — 7/4/2017

  • Barbara Van Iderstine Holden — 4/4/2024

  • Susan Hornell Krieg — 7/2/2024

  • Elizabeth Schroder Hoxie — 12/1/1983

  • Michael Kehoe Hubner — 4/16/2018

  • Paula Iverson — 12/13/2001

  • Cheryl Steinmetz Kent — 8/13/1986

  • Diana Edelman Kleiner — 11/12/2023

  • Joanne Birkhold Krakow — 2/7/1997

  • Laurene Kreer — 6/1/1980

  • Eleanor Lazarus — 2/26/2013

  • Carolyn Larson Lippmann — 12/15/23

  • Janet (“JJ”) Taylor Lisle — 10/5/23

  • Linda Sticler Lotto — 12/29/1987

  • Susan Ludlow-MacMurray — 4/26/2001

  • Margery Willey Marshall — 10/1/1987

  • Cary MacRae McDaniel —  5/30/1996

  • Susanah Mayberry Mead — 12/23/2017

  • Ann Charles Miller — 2/1/2021

  • Catherine Milwid — 4/16/1968

  • Carol Bradley Morris — 2/28/2022

  • Virginia Morton — 9/2/2010

  • Malashri Mukerji — 7/1/2012

  • Margaret Arnheim Nettinga — 6/13/2017

  • Judith Leach O’Neil — 1/18/2018

  • Martha Pollock — 12/17/2017

  • Mary Quiett — 10/1/2005

  • Nancy Reilly — 5/30/1995

  • Lynn Reynolds — 2/18/2021

  • Beverly Anisowicz Rhodes — 10/27/2022

  • Catherine Campbell Rhorer — 11/27/1979

  • Sally Doonan Rogers — 9/24/2004

  • Anne Rognstad — 1/10/2010

  • Andrea Rosnick — 7/6/1998

  • Wilsa Ryder — 10/28/2017

  • Norma Salem — 1/1/1990

  • Jane Samz — 9/14/2011

  • Susan Lawlor Sanders — 8/7/2024

  • Ann Carrad Schaffner — 6/19/2013

  • Sue Ann Levin Schiff — 6/22/24

  • Elieen Lesko Scott — 3/11/2005

  • Marjorie Barkin Searl — 9/15/2024

  • Phyllis Shapiro — 11/28/2017

  • Sarah Shell — 2/5/2019

  • Jill Laporte Sklarz — 10/25/2018

  • Susan Smith — 12/16/2019

  • Ann Spiegel — 3/29/2010

  • Marcia Taylor — 11/8/1975

  • Denise Ryan Tedeschi — 12/11/1998

  • Pennie Boden Thurman — 11/9/2012

  • Judith (“Judy”) Koltz Treanor — 4/6/24

  • Mary B. Wilson — 6/23/2013

  • Taj Diffenbaugh Worley — 9/7/1987

  • Phyllis Ziegler — 12/15/1998

(Information as of September 2024)

Click here to download our 50th Reunion Memorial Book