Taps

BY FATHER PHIL SALOIS, M.S.

We regret the necessity of running only the most basic obituaries in The VVA Veteran. However, full, detailed, and expansive obituaries—going back to 2009—are online at www.vva.org/taps.html

Kenneth C. Anderson, 86,
Wisconsin Chapter 437, died April 6.
John O. Barrett, 74, Kansas Chapter 75,
died recently.
Terry Thomas Beisser, 76, Louisiana Chapter 141,
died February 2.
William Oura Benedict, Sr., 88, Wisconsin Chapter 437,
died April 8.
Alvin Young Bethard, 74, Louisiana Chapter 141, died September 28, 2021.
Bruce Leon Bezio, 73, Massachusetts Chapter 116, died September 22, 2021.
Zoltan Bodnar, Jr., 72, Louisiana Chapter 141, died February 27.
Sulie Paul Bourque, 73, Louisiana Chapter 141, died February 8.
Gary William Burch, 75, West Virginia Chapter 306,
died February 28.
John T. Burns, Jr., 71, New Jersey Chapter 899, died January 20.
Terry K. Burt, 74, Nevada Chapter 388, died March 25.
Michael Alexander Caldwell, 70, Tennessee Chapter 1123,
died April 21.
Theodore Winfield Carter, 78, at-large Iowa, died April 1, 2021.
David R. Case, 80, Michigan Chapter 154, died April 8.
Lester Chapman, 77, North Carolina Chapter 909,
died March 1, 2021.
John W. Colburn, 74, New York Chapter 20,
died November 1, 2021.
Terry L. Coleman, 74, Ohio Chapter 440, died April 3.
Samuel Cecil Cottrell, 76, Vermont Chapter 601, died April 4.
Walter Clay DeHart, Jr., 71, South Carolina Chapter 1049,
died February 17, 2021.
Joseph Franklin Dillard, 75, North Carolina Chapter 1136,
died April 17.
James Eugene Dunning, 80, Virginia Chapter 196,
died February 16, 2019.
Raiford Lee Ennis, Jr., 74, Georgia Chapter 671, died April 28.
Richard Kenneth Farlow, 71, California Chapter 223,
died February 5, 2021.
Bernard Fuschino, 75, New Jersey Chapter 12, died April 6.
Michael Carl Gast, 76, North Carolina Chapter 966, died April 18.
David Lawrence Gifford, 72, North Carolina Chapter 980,
died April 26.
James C. Gould, 73, New Jersey Chapter 899,
died September 9, 2021.
James Cecil Graham, 73, Tennessee Chapter 596, died March 25.
Robert Clifton Grant, 77, Pennsylvania Chapter 862, died April 20.
Michael Melvin Greenspan, 82, Texas Chapter 343, died March 2.
David J. Gustaf, 75, Illinois Chapter 669, died April 4.
James F. Hall, 77, at-large Iowa, died recently.
Martin Handelman, 78, New Jersey Chapter 12, died April 1.
Jon L. Ites, 75, Texas Chapter 856, died March 23.
Thomas Jellick, 89, New Jersey Chapter 899, died February 13.
Kenneth Michael Jennings, 74, Tennessee Chapter 979,
died March 28.
Betty Ann Kleber-DuMont, 76, AVVA New Jersey Chapter 899,
died March 21.
John Paul Knapp, Jr., 72, Maryland Chapter 965, died April 2.
John Andre Lemos, 78, California Chapter 223, died March 31.
George William Londrigan, 74, Michigan Chapter 175,
died March 30.
Terrance William Lyons, 72, Delaware Chapter 850, died April 2.
Calvin Charles Mahlmann, 80, Texas Chapter 1069, died April 2.
Lancelot Arthur McKelleget, Jr., 82, Georgia Chapter 1030,
died January 26.
Paul A. McQuade, 74, Illinois Chapter 269, died April 29.
Wayne Anthony Mitchell, 76, at-large North Carolina,
died February 12.
Donald W. Mohr, 74, New Jersey Chapter 899, died September 30, 2021.
Terry Joseph Morris, Sr., 76, Ohio Chapter 1045, died April 19.
Donald Charles Morvai, 75, Tennessee Chapter 1140, died December 15, 2021.
Doreen Joann Nelson, 83, AVVA Michigan Chapter 380,
died April 3.
Sanford E. Newman, Sr., 74, Pennsylvania Chapter 542,
died March 29.
Donald Lee Overton, 72, Vermont Chapter 753, died January 17.
Wayne A. Phelps, 72, Ohio Chapter 1095, died March 23.
Raymond R. Polk, Sr., 86, Oklahoma Chapter 751, died May 5.
Larry Robert Pretzer, 72, Michigan Chapter 9,
died November 10, 2021.
James W. Rauh, 70, New Jersey Chapter 12, died August 15, 2021.
Robert W. Regan, Jr., 79, Pennsylvania Chapter 67, died April 4.
Jon Anzuena Reynolds, 84, Delaware Chapter 850, died April 16.
Charles Gleen Richardson, Jr., 79, Tennessee Chapter 942, died April 3.
Dennis R. Richlen, 79, Iowa Chapter 776, died April 2.
Carlos R. Rodriguez, 79, Louisiana Chapter 1098, died March 1.
Roger Dale Roy, 74, West Virginia Chapter 306, died January 4.
William M. Rushford, 88, Michigan Chapter 380, died December 1, 2021.
Patrick F. Ryan, 82, Wisconsin Chapter 101, died April 21.
Gerald George Schreck, 88, at-large Iowa, January 30, 2020.
Alex Emil Sebastian, 79, Pennsylvania Chapter 862, died April 14.
William K. Shafley II, 72, Ohio Chapter 1045, died December 2, 2021.
Keith C. Smith, Sr., 69, Wisconsin Chapter 921, died April 15, 2021.
Peter Rodney Sorensen, 76, Wisconsin Chapter 351,
died April 22.
Bernhardt W. Stumborg, 80, North Carolina Chapter 885,
died April 4.
Ronnie Joe Talkington, 73, West Virginia Chapter 1055,
died March 16.
Ruth Taylor-Perry, 89, AVVA Virginia Chapter 196,
died April 5.
Danny Edward Townsend, 74, Tennessee Chapter 1123,
died April 27.
James Edwin Vaughan, 86, Georgia Chapter 671,
died March 24.
Wilbur Lee Walk, Sr., 76, Pennsylvania Chapter 967,
died October 6, 2019.
Michael L. Walters, 74, Ohio Chapter 97,
died April 2.
William C. West, Jr., 75, Virginia Chapter 617,
died April 15.
Florence V. Westmoreland, 80, Tennessee Chapter 1015,
died February 28.
Robert John Wilkinson, 73, Michigan Chapter 109, died April 18.
Anthony S. Zelek, 75, New Jersey Chapter 233, died April 12.

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