Remembering 2024

Our annual REMEMBERING edition, the last issue of the year, reminds us small-town folks that people we thought we knew we didn’t know as well as we wish we had, and those we didn’t know, we wish we had known. It reminds us that many more have died this year than we could possibly write about, so this presentation is always just a sample of the richness of lives gone. We strive for diversity among those we include, and always know we fall short of the diversity that’s available to us. Readers were invited to submit memorials; 17 reader-submitted essays are here. REMEMBERING tells us not only how much this town has lost this year, but how much from each life it has gained. –Fletcher Farrar, editor and CEO

ALPLM volunteers – 5

Diane Bantner – 14

Larry Benedict – 7

Elsie Jane Black – 9

Karen M. Brown-Coash – 11

Norman Kent Brown – 11

Will Burpee – 16

ROBERT E. “BOB” CHIPMAN – 3

Brandon James Coonrod – 13

Judith “Judy” Cully – 19

THERESA FAITH CUMMINGS – 9

CAROLYN SCHNIRRING DUNGAN – 5

Frederick C. Edmonds – 15

LAUREN ENGLEKE-SMITH – 12

Bill Evans – 13

Dr. Steven L. Fritz – 16

BOB GRAY – 7

BRUCE HANNON – 4

WILLIAM “BILL” HOLLAND – 10

In memory of our homeless persons – 14

Jim Johnson – 16

Kevin G. Kampwerth – 16

Mary Lynn Kelly – 17

Phillip “Phil” R. Kennedy – 18

Marian Levin – 18

GAIL LORENZINI – 6

Sonya Massey – 17

Penny Ann Meyer – 18

Jennie D. Moriconi Likens – 18

D’Wayne Morris – 14

CAROLYN BARTHOLF OXTOBY – 15

Delores L. (Prior) Powers – 10

Robert PRICHARD – 8

Barry Joseph Skaggs Sr. – 12

Linda Kay (Lee) Vincent – 10

Mary Aono Yoshimura – 11

Barbara Ann Young – 11

TONY YOUNG – 19

This article appears in Remembering 2024.