Obituaries, listed alphabetically

Thomas Lee Parker “Guitar Tommy” passed away April 17, 2019. We do not yet have an official obituary.

Dr. John Ralph Parkin, 76, of Bagley, MN died peacefully with his beloved wife and his bulldog Gracie by his side on Monday, August 28th, 2023, with a courageous battle of Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Celebration of John's Life Services will be held at 2:00pm, Saturday, September 16, 2023, at Cease Family Funeral Home in Bemidji, MN. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.

Jack Penney died on January 31, 1999, at his home, of a heart attack. He leaves his wife Anne and two children, Jessica and Ellen. He was in the Band at Dartmouth. His home address is given by the College as 20 Chestnut Street, #3, Boston 02108-3602. Phone number is unlisted. According to my Dartmouth database, he was a doctor and had been employed by the Mass General Hospital. The notice from Dartmouth mentions the source of the information as the Boston Globe, February 5, 1999.

From The '69Times:

At this time we have no published obituary. If you have memories, anecdotes, or access to an obituary you wish to share, please let us know.

A Hui Hou

The thing about Punky...

He was a Midwesterner through and through.

There was a humble purity in his values—but more than that, he lived them. That was all he ever was, and all he ever believed really mattered.

Throughout his life, he had an uncanny ability to graciously navigate different cultures and other's life circumstance. He met people where they were at and honored their worth and dignity. His belief in the actualization of human potential was, for him, imperative.

Donald Carl Pogue of Guilford, CT, died peacefully in his sleep on October 26, 2016. Born May 24, 1947 in Macomb, Illinois, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969 and Yale Law School in 1973. He worked as a labor lawyer in Connecticut and proudly represented labor unions for many years before serving as the Connecticut Commissioner of Hospitals and Healthcare and then as a Judge in the CT Superior Court. In 1995 he was appointed as a Judge for the US Court of International Trade where he served as Chief Judge from 2010-2014 and assumed senior status in 2014.

The following was sent by Robin Barber, a high school friend of Kari’s.

Karl Walter Prager, Oct 21, 1947 – November 14th, 2010

The quotes in italics are Kari’s own words from an autobiographical letter written in 2010. The full text can be found  on the FaceBook page created in Kari’s memory.