In Memoriam notices are accepted at all times but distributed in print and digital twice per year, in the fall and in the spring. To send word, email editor@gustavus.edu or submit here.
1964
Sharon Spande Geurkink, 3/20/2025 | Nora Lockerby Gustafson, 2/3/2025 | John “Jack” Jungas, 2/2/2025 | Dennis H. Lade, 10/16/2024 | Mary Lou Zimmerman Magnuson, 12/21/2024 | John W. Radtke, 2/23/2025
1965
Joan Robertson Bellig, 1/23/2025 | William G. Jafvert, 4/7/2025 | Richard J. Shager, 2/25/2025
1966
Robert H. Hoffman, 3/7/2025 | Judy Boline Larson, 12/12/2024 | Richard A. Perschau, 10/26/2024 | Robert C. Therien, Jr., 3/19/2025
1967
Carter L. Crane, 1/21/2025
1968
Judith Draxten Ellis, 10/12/2024 | John T. Gustafson, 5/26/2025 | Douglas G. Hawkinson, 5/6/2025 | Stephen M. Youngdahl, 2/17/2025
1969
Neil A. Fenske, 10/19/2024 | Lynda White Larson, 12/21/2024
1970
Roger A. Jones, 1/4/2025 | Patricia Willis Joseph, 4/21/2025 | Bonnie Weckworth Nelson, 5/24/2024 | Linda Beck Retka, 11/11/2024
1971
Robert A. Anderson, 5/19/2025 | Peder G. Arneson, 12/15/23 | Gail B. Stewart, 11/20/2024 | Pamela Stone Thomas, 12/20/2024 | Brian L. Walden, 4/28/2025
1972
Stephen W. Bailey, 11/18/2024 | Jerry A. Kurata, 5/19/1998 | Kristine Hanson Simmons, 8/9/2023 | Terri Fay Strait, 3/1/2025
1975
Deborah Tearse Duea, 12/17/2024 | Sabine H. Lobitz, 12/24/2020
1976
Michelle Olson Hartman, 3/5/2024
1978
Stephen R. Odgren, 5/18/2025
1979
Paschal “Pat” R. Baker, 10/19/2024
1980
Bethel Nelson Carlson, 2/15/2025 | Terry Hoekstra, 1/11/2018 | Marty L. Mauser, 1/16/2025 | Merita D. Schollmeier, 4/7/2025
1981
Franklyn Vosburg, 1/5/2025
1982
Timothy Hawkinson, 6/7/2025 | Lenae Voigtlander Jenkins, 1/22/2025
1985
Julie Jakway Gunderson, 7/23/2022
1987
Scott Edblom, 4/12/2025
1989
William Anderson II, 12/31/2024 | Diane Weinkauf, 7/1/2024
1990
Timothy L. Schwartz, 4/17/2025
1991
Valerie Pedersen McClure, 3/24/2025
1992
Matthew E. Sullivan, 1/10/2025
2007
Charles J. Eppard, 3/4/2025 | David John Linder, 3/4/2025 | Spence T. McGrath, 5/27/2025
2009
Ashley Martin Hubbell, 5/11/2025
2011
Alisha H. Rheaume, 12/6/2024
BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEMBERS
Carl M. Johnson, 4/15/2025. He served on the Board of Trustees from 1981–1988.
Dennis Sobolik, 5/12/2025. He served on the Board of Trustees from 1982–1989.
Thomas Hirsch ’64, 3/28/2025. He had a successful career in property management and real estate investment. An avid supporter of Gustavus, he served on the Gustavus Board of Trustees from 2004–2010, as well as on the Executives Forum and the National Campaign Council for Phoenix and the Twin Cities. He is survived by his wife, Sonja Alvheim Hirsch ’60.
Miriam Peterson Manfred ’39, 11/28/2024. Our longest living alum, who passed away at the age of 107. A former schoolteacher who married a pastor, Carl Manfred ’39, she became very active in parish life. She was a former member of the Gustavus Alumni Board and served for many years on the Gustavus Library Associates. She played the Gustavus Alma Mater on the piano at the St. Lucia Luncheon well into her nineties. She is survived by four children: Peter ’66, Mark, Carol Manfred Sack ’72, and David.
Jack R. Niemi ’68, 1/15/2025. After graduating
from Gustavus, he went on to Northwestern Lutheran
Theological Seminary and received his Master of Divinity.
He served various parishes, coming back to Gustavus in
2002 as vice president of Church Relations until 2005,
then going on to Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth Johns Niemi ’69, and two
sons, Ted ’92 and Jason ’94.
Ronald Timmerman ’75, 10/28/2024. After working in the building trades, he came back to Gustavus and had a 35-year career, retiring in 2015 as the associate director of Advancement. He is survived by his wife, Jane Stenehjem Timmerman ’75, and two daughters, Rebecca and Amanda Timmerman Skalsky ’08.
