Following is a list of our Washburn ’62 classmates who have died.

Douglas Addison

Jacqueline (Alldridge) Manthey

Pamela Anderson

Ronald Anderson

Ruth (Arentson) Lood

Gary Bast

Anne (Baxter) Knutson

Barbara (Baxter) Bennett

Linda (Berg) Thone

Dan Billman

Michael Blair

Jeffory Brower

Carol (Bjerke) Brown

Bonnie (Bjornton) Bronstad

Judith (Brown) Bergerson

Roseanne (Brown) Rankin

Linda (Burnside) Russeth Meyers

Lennore (Bylund) Bevis

Richard Campbell

Daniel Chorzempa

Ilana Clarren

Mogens Fries Clausen

Joan (Clute) Vettleson

Roxanne Collins

Paul Dahlen

Eckart Herter Danielson

Michael Deladi

David Depew

Eileen (Devoy) Wyant

Dorothy (Dosse) Metzler

Louise (Dufresne) Smith

Lance B Dunkirk

Daniel Dwyer

Marilyn (Dygert) Jensen

Pricilla (Elftmann) Stone

Karolyn (Engen) Walker

Paula (Enockson) Sippel

Diane (Erickson) Dean

Maureen (Farnham) Host

Joel Figen

Michael Forsland

Regina Franke

Steven Gebert

Daniel Geske

Thomas E Gibson

Martha (Giffin) Struxness

Nancy (Goldhirsch) Kaplan

William Goodoien

Robert Grossman

Warren Gustafson

Allen Haack

Patricia Haley

Patricia  L. Harris

Garry Hanson

Gayle (Harstad) Staley

Herman A W Hedke

Robert Heimkes

Kathleen (Homeyer) Stiehm

Kent Holcomb

Donald Irwin

Audrey (Jensen) Cortez

Mary Ellen (Jensen) Martin

J. Karleen (Johnson) Goehle

Kathleen Johnston

Daniel F Jopp

Peter Kahn

Ron Kaplan

Meredith (Kissinger) Patnoe




Catherine (Leadholm) Olson

Charles Lindley

John Lobben

Steven Luers

Carol Lukas

Stanley Magnuson

John Mahe

Robert Maresh

Muriel Ann Mays

Karen (McNiece) Ranum

Barbara (Melin) Nichols

Roberta (Meyer) Pich

Brian Murphy

Alan Nebelthau

Barbara (Nelson) Holt

Curtis Noble

Bradley Norman

Margaret (O'Connell) Austen

Lorna Olm

John Opava

Thomas Oram

Florence Pajerski

David Peterson

Janice (Peterson) Andrews-Schenk

Joanne (Peterson) Cowan

Ethel J. (Plitman) Brown

Janice Popko

Peter Rand

David Reed

Richard Rees

Herbert Reiman

Penny (Reinke) Mulroy

Larry Richey

George Jeffrey Roberts

Lee Roisum

Fredric Rosenblatt

Donna (Rouse) Scudder

Arne Rovick

Dennis Ryan

Richard Schaefer

James Schultz

John Skarolid

Christine (Smith) Hammock

Theodore Smith

John Speier

Michael Stewart

Janet (Straiton) Higgenbotham

Nancy (Strandmark) Eilers

Douglas Strong

Stephen Swenson

Majorie Valene

Susan (Valentine) Hovland

Richard Van Eps

Karen (Wekkind) Getty

John Whitaker

Frank Whitehead

Mary Sue (Wilson) Anderson

Diane (Winters) Hitchcock

If you know of others to be listed, please notify us at feedback@washburn62.

The path of life along its forked course

Does like a river flow from source to end.

At every branch, a choice is made, by force,

For no one knows what lies beyond the bend.


Some branches lead to channels safe and true,

And others into danger and despair.

The path is blind, and yet I pass on through,

For choose one must, or perish on the shore.


But choice, once made, is lived with to the last,

Until that day, o Life, when I’ll be free

To set my course, and I the die may cast,

When river joins the all-oblivious sea.


I seize this day: my goal is far remote;

So through this stream of life, I steer my boat.


                      -- Joel Figen ‘62

last updated 7/9/23