Obituaries

  1. December 10, 2018

    Obituary: Walter Jacob Weber Jr.

    Walter Jacob Weber Jr., 84, died Oct. 18 at Huron Woods Memory Center, with family at his side, after a brief illness. He was professor emeritus and the Gordon M. Fair and Earnest Boyce Distinguished University Professor of Environmental and Ecological Sciences and Engineering.

  2. September 14, 2018

    Obituary: James L. Waters

    James L. Waters, a former University of Michigan regent, prominent attorney, entrepreneur and philanthropist, died suddenly and very unexpectedly Aug. 31 at his home in Muskegon, Michigan.

  3. September 14, 2018

    Obituary: Minor Jesser “Jud” Coon

    Minor Jesser “Jud” Coon, retired Victor C. Vaughan Distinguished Professor who worked in the University of Michigan Department of Biological Chemistry, died Sept. 5.

  4. April 12, 2018

    Obituary: Arthur Coffman Wolfe

    Arthur Coffman Wolfe, 87, a long-time research associate and University of Michigan alumnus, died Dec. 28, 2017, at Pinecrest, the 114 year old Wolfe family enclave along Crystal Lake near Beulah, Michigan.

  5. April 10, 2018

    Obituary: Barbara C. Hodgdon

    Barbara C. Hodgdon, retired professor of English (2005-2012), and an affiliated faculty member of Screen Arts & Cultures, died early March 22, after living so remarkably well with COPD and lung cancer for six years.

  6. March 14, 2018

    Obituary: Jean M. Malouin

    Jean M. Malouin, assistant professor of family medicine, died unexpectedly March 10 from medical causes.

  7. January 12, 2018

    Obituary: Richard Meisler

    Longtime faculty member Richard Meisler died after complications of pancreatic cancer on Feb. 21, 2017.

  8. January 10, 2018

    Obituary: James N. Morgan

    James N. Morgan, an economist who created the longest-running intergenerational household survey in the world, died Jan. 8 at University of Michigan Hospital. He was 99 and lived in Ann Arbor.

  9. January 8, 2018

    Obituary: Paul Ilie

    Paul Ilie, professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, scholar and critic in the fields of the history of ideas in Europe, and former University of Michigan professor, died July 18 in Los Angeles. He was 84.

  10. November 13, 2017

    Obituary: Joel Smoller

    Joel Smoller, 81, a recently retired professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, died Sept. 27 after a prolonged illness.