Obituaries

These are the most recent alumni obituaries. To report a death, please contact alumni records at (603) 646-2253. To view obituaries by class year, select from the drop-down menu:

July-August 2021

Robert Allen Koester ’52 of Springfield, Illinois, died on March 26 at Memorial Medical Center.

July-August 2021

Stanley Kogan ’52, M.D., a retired Baltimore oral-maxillofacial surgeon who had been chief of the department of dentistry at Sinai Hospital (now Northwest Hospital), died March 20,

July-August 2021

Ronald Henry Marcks ’52 died on March 22 in Lincoln, Massachusetts, after several years of declining health.

July-August 2021

Franklin Taylor Osgood Jr. ’52 passed away in Devon, Pennsylvania, on May 15. Frank was born on December 6, 1930, and graduated from the Penn Charter School in Philadelphia.

July-August 2021

John Bellows Herrmann ’54 passed away peacefully on March 5 in Newton Center, Massachusetts. John came to Dartmouth from Withrow High School in Cincinnati.

July-August 2021

Edgar Leland Lamb Jr. ’54 passed away in Anchorage, Alaska, on January 12 after a lengthy illness.

July-August 2021

Robert Hugh McGrath ’54 passed away on March 12 at the home of his granddaughter in Laconia, New Hampshire.

July-August 2021

Johan Marijn Oudheusden ’54 of Westport, Connecticut, passed on October 20, 2020, following an extended battle with cancer.

July-August 2021

William Barnard Stern ’54, originally from New Bedford, Massachusetts, passed away on May 15, 2017, in Florida.

July-August 2021

Gustave C. Aberle ’55 passed away on April 29 in Folsom, California. He is survived by his daughters, Elizabeth and Pamela.

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