Obituaries

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Virginia A. (Hegarty) Lefavor on October 20.  She was 75.

Ginny was born and raised in Weymouth, […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Joseph F. Dawicki, Jr., on October 4, in Sarasota, Fla., after a long illness.  He was 78.

Joe […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Pamela E. Hindley on September 8, following a brief illness.  She was 69.

Pamela was the daughter of […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Mary F. (Fontes) Andrews on September 7, at Falmouth Hospital.  She was 85.

Born in Bourne, MA, she […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Raymond E. Davis on June 13, in East Falmouth. He was 71.

Ray was born in Milwaukee, […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Clifford J. Hamill on June 13, at Falmouth Hospital.  He was 82.

Clifford was born in New York, […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Roger S. Walen on November 24, 2012, at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Mass, after a […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Mauritz Casper Fredriksen on May 31.  He was 100.

Mauritz was born on July 15, 1912 […]

Obama called his order a ‘mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence’ at the Boston Marathon on Monday. The American flag at the U.S. Capitol […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Nat Corwin on March 30, in Falmouth. He was 92.

Nat survived the sinking of the Navy survey […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Lincoln Baxter II on March 5, at Royal Nursing Home in Falmouth.  He was 88.

Lincoln was […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death on February 26, 2013, of Honorary Member, Randolph W. Bromery.  Dr. and Mrs. Bromery became Associates in 1996.  Bill […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Ralph M. Hollis on March 15, in Melbourne, Fl.  He was 80.

Ralph was born on May […]

The Institution has received word of the death of retiree Mary Hunt on March 7, in Falmouth. She was 88.

Mary was born in Cambridge, MA, the second of five […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Richard A. Carvalho, on February 18, at the Genesis Healthcare in Falmouth.  He was 68.

Born in New […]

The Institution has received word of the death of Honorary Corporation Member Giles E. Mosher Jr., on February 12, at his home in Wellesley.  He ws 80.

Giles was a […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Evangeline P. Wilkins on January 24, after a lengthy illness.  She was 83.

She was the daughter […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree David Dow Ketchum on January 26, of complications from a fall taken during Hurricane Sandy at his […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Anthony “Tony” Mendousa on January 25, in Orleans, MA.  He was 87.

Tony began his career at […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Arthur Costa on January 18, in Falmouth.  He was 80.

Arthur was born in Fall River, MA.  He […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of WHOI volunteer Dorothy B. Buchanan on January 20, at the Cape Cod Hospital, surrounded by her family.  She […]

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 14, 2012

Presidential Proclamation — Honoring the Victims of the Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut

HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE TRAGEDY IN NEWTOWN, […]