Obituaries

  1. March 20, 2015

    Obituary: Robert F. Dernberger

    Robert F. Dernberger, professor emeritus of economics, died March 5 at the age of 85.

  2. March 6, 2015

    Obituary: Dr. Karen R. Fonde

    Dr. Karen Rhea Fonde died March 1 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 65.

  3. March 6, 2015

    Obituary: Lois Wladis Hoffman

    Emeritus professor Lois Wladis Hoffman of the University of Michigan Department of Psychology died Feb. 13, following a long siege of Alzheimer’s disease.

  4. March 2, 2015

    Obituary: Donald J. Lewis, professor emeritus of mathematics

    Donald J. Lewis, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Feb. 25 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.

  5. February 20, 2015

    Obituary: Cecil DeGrotte Eby Jr.

    Cecil DeGrotte Eby Jr., aged 87, retired professor of English, died peacefully Feb. 15, with his two daughters by his side.

  6. February 13, 2015

    Obituary: Dr. Sarla P. Kothary

    Dr. Sarla P. Kothary, a researcher in the Department of Anesthesiology and Neurology, died Jan. 20 at home in her husband’s (Dr. Piyush C. Kothary) arms.

  7. January 30, 2015

    Remembering Tobin Siebers, English professor, disability studies advocate

    Tobin Siebers, co-chair of the university’s Initiative on Disability Studies and professor of English language and literature, and art and design died Thursday.

  8. January 9, 2015

    Political scientist Philip Converse dies at 86

    Philip E. Converse, an authority on public opinion and electoral behavior and a U-M professor emeritus of sociology and political science, died Dec. 30, 2014, in Ann Arbor. He was 86.

  9. January 9, 2015

    Obituary: Hansford White ‘Bill’ Farris

    Hansford White “Bill” Farris, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan, died Dec. 7, 2014, in Gainesville, Florida. He was 95.

  10. January 9, 2015

    Obituary: Victor M. Hawthorne

    Victor M. Hawthorne, professor emeritus of epidemiology in the University of Michigan School of Public Health and in the Department of Family Practice in the School of Medicine, died in Lansing, Michigan, on Nov. 23, 2014, of heart failure. He was 93.