Remembering the lives they lived
About the issue
It is our tradition to reserve our last issue of the year to remember some of the Springfield-area people who have died in the past year. Those we write about here are people who have come to the attention of our writers, and others brought to IT by readers answering our call to contribute their personal essays to “Remembering.” These people were not all prominent or well-known in the community – although some certainly were – but they were all prominent to their families and in the circles they inhabited. Each life has a story. The 27 lives chronicled here remind us that each one makes a contribution to the community fabric and each one will be missed. We urge you to read them all. Together these remembrances can represent all the hundreds who departed in 2016 having made Springfield a better place by the manner of their living.
–Fletcher Farrar, editor and publisher
DONALD E. BAILEY
DENNIS LEE “DENNY” POLK
RAY “BEN” BENSON HAGER
JULIANNE GLATZ
SCOTT CHARLES WILLIAMS
TERRILL J. (T.J.) MEYER
BRONWYN LLOYD EVES
JACQUELINE LOUISE DARROUGH WRIGHT
PATRICK V. GRADY
RAYMOND L. LONG
EARL “WALLY” HENDERSON
DANIEL ‘HUD’ HUDDLESTON, JR.
ROBERT EUGENE RUGGLES
FREDERICK BAYARD HOFFMANN
LAWRENCE A. BROQUET
HERBERT LOUIS “HERB” MCMATH, SR.
ELMER ELLSWORTH HAGLER JORGENSEN
CAROL ANN MERRILL
DELIA M. GONZALES
HELEN L. TUTTLE
FRED J. SCHRAEDER
MARJORIE SWANSON FARRAR
JOHN CURTIS HUTCHES
WILLIAM L. “BILL” ROTH
SILVESTER WALTON, JR.
JILL BUFFINGTON
LARRY SELINGER
This article appears in Dec 29, 2016 – Jan 4, 2017.
