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Obituaries


Chuck Schmidt

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of member and friend of the Institution, Chuck Schmidt.  Further information will be posted when available.

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Jessie Pennoyer Snyder

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of member and friend of the Institution, Jessie Pennoyer Snyder.  Further information will be posted when available.

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Jill Ker Conway

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of member and friend of the Institution, Jill Ker Conway.  Further information will be posted when available.

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Richard Arthur

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of member and friend of the Institution, Richard Arthur.  Further information will be posted when available.

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Erik Hauri

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death on September 5 of Erik Hauri, a 1992 graduate of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, at his home in North […]

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Sheldon L. Holzer

Sheldon L. Holzer

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of long-time WHOI volunteer Sheldon L. Holzer on August 20.  He was 81.

Shelly was born in New York […]

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Suellen Garner

Suellen Garner

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Suellen Garner on Monday, July 30. She was 56.

Suellen, or Susie or Susie-Q as she soon […]

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Pamela Barrows

Pamela Barrows

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Pamela Barrows on July 6. She was 75.

Pam was born in Syracuse, NY, moved to […]

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Fred Grassle

Fred Grassle

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Fred Grassle on July 6 at Regency Jewish Heritage Nursing Center in Somerset, New Jersey. He […]

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Thomas C. Aldrich

Thomas C. Aldrich

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has received word of the death of former employee Thomas C. Aldrich on April 24 of cancer in Falmouth. He was 80.

Tom was predeceased […]

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David L. Shores

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee David L. Shores on April 10 at the Winship Green Nursing Center in Bath, Maine. He […]

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Allan R. Davison

Allan R. Davison

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Allan R. Davison on March 21. He was 82.

Al enlisted in the US Coast Guard […]

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Nancy Marcus

Nancy Marcus

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Nancy Marcus on February 12, 2018 at her home in Florida surrounded by family and friends. […]

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Napoleon “Mac” McCall

Napoleon "Mac" McCall

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Napoleon “Mac” McCall on February 19.  He was 61.

Mac served in the US Army for 13 […]

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Dana Hackett

Dana Hackett

The Institution announces with great sorrow the death of Dana Hackett, WHOI’s warehouse supervisor, on Friday, February 16, after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 66.

Dana was […]

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Lidia K. Williams Van Beeck

Lidia K. Williams Van Beeck

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Lidia K. Williams Van Beeck on December 13, at Tobey Hospital in Wareham, Mass. She was […]

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Sallye Davis

Sallye Davis

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Sallye Davis on December 16.  She was 66.

Sallye was born October 14, 1951, in Kenedy, TX.  […]

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Walter H. G. Paul

Walter H. G. Paul

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Walter H. G. Paul on December 8 in Falmouth, Mass. He was 82.

Walter was born on […]

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Robert Guillard

Robert Guillard

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Robert Guillard on September 25, 2016, at the Gregory Wing, St. Andrew’s Village in Boothbay Harbor, […]

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Lilli Schwenk Hornig

Lilli Schwenk Hornig

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with sorrow the death of Life Trustee, Lilli Schwenk Hornig, on November 17, 2017. Lilli was 96 years old.

The daughter of an organic chemist […]

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Mabel M. (Badger) Reese Fay

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Mabel M. (Badger) Reese Fay on October 18 in Vergennes, VT. She was 93.

As Ms. Reese, […]

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Richard Lee Haedrich

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of former employee Richard Lee Haedrich on July 17, at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire. He […]

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