Obituaries

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. November 3, 2014

    Obituary: Mark Davis

    Mark Davis, a retired IT manager at the University of Michigan, died Nov. 2 at the age of 65.

  6. October 24, 2014

    Obituary: Eloise Ruth (Edson) Snyder

    Eloise Ruth (Edson) Snyder, retired publications director for the Institute of Gerontology, died Oct. 13 at home in Burcham Hills, East Lansing, where she had lived for the past five years. She was 93.

  7. October 17, 2014

    Obituary: Kweku Arku Garbrah

    Kweku Arku Garbrah, Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies, died Oct. 2.

  8. October 17, 2014

    Obituary: Jay Luke Robinson

    Jay Luke Robinson, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of English, died Oct. 5 at his home in Ann Arbor, surrounded by his family.

  9. September 26, 2014

    Obituary: Dr. Hugh Cooper

    Dr. Hugh Cooper, a former member of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry’s Crown and Bridge Department, died Sept. 12.  He was 90.

  10. September 26, 2014

    Obituary: Dr. Robert Doerr

    Dr. Robert Doerr, who led the University of Michigan School of Dentistry as interim dean from 1981 to 1982 and served in other leadership roles during his 37-year career, died Sept. 19 in Traverse City, Michigan. He was 93.