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

ALABAMA
Michael Fred Hosey, 76, Chapter 416, died April 2.

CALIFORNIA
David John Ackerman, 79, Chapter 201, died March 3.
Gregory Don Robinett, 77, at-large, died April 8.

FLORIDA
Robert L. Berry, 65, AVVA, Chapter 1048, died July 9, 2025.
Herbert Dale Enroughty, 79, Chapter 1048, died August 20, 2025.
William R. Lape, 77, Chapter 1040, died April 15.
Robert A. Levantino, AVVA, Chapter 1152, died recently.
Dolores Pasquale, AVVA, Chapter 1084, died April 2.
Barry Melvin Sadoff, 75, Chapter 23, died April 27.
Douglass N. Seward, 91, Chapter 1036, died March 19.
Robert E. Stoneberger, Jr., 78, Chapter 1092, died March 18.

GEORGIA
Larry Glen Havenhill, 81, Chapter 1030, died March 31.
Carl F. Reiber, Jr., 87, Chapter 1030, died March 8.

ILLINOIS
Robert Edward Eichler, 80, Chapter 242, died March 4.

INDIANA
Jon M. Yeager, 77, Chapter 295, died October 8, 2025.

KANSAS
James Lewis King, 88, Chapter 75, died April 29.

KENTUCKY
Chet Needy, 77, Chapter 454, died September 8, 2025.
Edwin J. Warren, 79, Chapter 1006, died April 1.

LOUISIANA
Edward C. Hudson, Sr., 81, Chapter 1098, died April 20.
James Martin Mathis, 79, Chapter 1131, died May 10.
Paul Edward Stroble, Sr., 79, Chapter 1131, died September 24, 2025.

MAINE
Donna Joyce Larson, 77, at-large, died December 23, 2025.

MARYLAND
Patrick F. Pickup, 80, Chapter 172, died April 16.
William L. Sarver, 86, at-large, died December 9, 2024.
Harry Teter, 85, Chapter 172, died February 10.

MASSACHUSETTS
Alan Alfred Faber, 78, Chapter 499, died March 15.
Rodney J. Quinn, 86, Chapter 499, died March 26.

MICHIGAN
Phillip David Bint, 77, Chapter 9, died January 21.
Charles A. Charbeneau, Sr., 80, Chapter 154, died April 27.
Alan Anthony Decker, 78, Chapter 175, died May 10.
Roger Louis Doyon, 82, Chapter 9, died March 14.
Jim Bob Green, 79, Chapter 310, died recently.
John J. Krokosy, 82, Chapter 110, died April 18.
John Thomas Lynch, III, 83, Chapter 9, died December 25, 2025.
Emory Francis Meier, Jr., 81, Chapter 528, died March 20.
Roy William Rogers, 78, Chapter 313, died April 17.
Harold Gregory Taylor, 77, Chapter 109, died April 12.
William J. Vollano, Sr., 95, Chapter 310, died January 30.

MINNESOTA
Allen Garry Huseby, 82, Chapter 1110, died December 28, 2025.
Robert William Young, 77, at-large, died June 21, 2025.

MISSOURI
Jerry Lee Bradley, 81, Chapter 458, died March 21.
G. Raymond Hass, Jr., 83, Chapter 317, died February 6.

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Lawrence R. Maurice, 77, Chapter 41, died April 12.

NEW JERSEY
John Stephen MacGowan, 81, Chapter 12, died March 28.
Chester John Thomas, Jr., 77, at-large, died May 4.

NEW MEXICO
Francisco E. Granadino, 80, Chapter 358, died March 20.
Steve S. Ramirez, Sr., 78, Chapter 358, died March 22.

NEW YORK
Richard R. Guevara, 81, Chapter 82, died May 9.
Anthony P. Jimenez, 74, Chapter 82, died April 10.
Stanley R. May, III, 83, Chapter 193, died October 3, 2025.

NORTH CAROLINA
Joseph William Kristek, 82, Chapter 966, died March 26.

OHIO
Eugene Anthony Bihn, 77, Chapter 35, died May 1.
Thomas H. Brown, Jr., 77, Chapter 89, died July 1, 2025.
Terry DeHart, 71, Chapter 35, died April 7.
Rick N. Goshe, 75, Chapter 440, died March 13.
William J. Koehler, 82, Chapter 90, died March 18.
James David Malloy, 78, Chapter 89, died May 1.
Mary F. Sampsel, 62, AVVA, Chapter 255, died August 28, 2025.
David E. Sanders, 70, Chapter 649, died December 11, 2025.

OKLAHOMA
Louis Douglas Deming, 81, Chapter 750, died April 24.
Robert L. Gower, 83, Chapter 750, died March 9, 2025.

PENNSYLVANIA
Dennis A. Anselmo, 81, Chapter 266, died March 5.
Raymond B. Frye, 76, at-large, died April 14.
Lamar Earl Goheen, Jr., 74, Chapter 1032, died May 1, 2024.
Ronald Lee Horn, Sr., 76, Chapter 1008, died March 29.
Richard Allen Merat, 79, Chapter 720, died March 31.
David Charles Wesley Ostrom, 77, Chapter 862, died April 10.
Thomas Anthony Powers, 78, Chapter 266, died April 4.

PHILIPPINES
Maynard Garth Smith, 80, Chapter 887, died March 3.

RHODE ISLAND
Wesley John Neal, 86, at-large, died July 25, 2025.
John L. Sheldon, III, 80, Chapter 325, died January 9.

SOUTH CAROLINA
Robert A. Burroughs, 85, Chapter 303, died February 11.
Terence C. Steer, 77, Chapter 925, died August 20, 2025.
Roger K. Weinhold, 79, Chapter 303, died March 29.

SOUTH DAKOTAA
Benjamin Lee Simpson, 74, Chapter 463, died July 13, 2024.
Edward Simpson, 72, Chapter 463, died April 9.

TENNESSEE
William Edward Bakey, 77, Chapter 240, died January 2.
Cary William Cundall, 81, Chapter 1004, died April 26.
Robert Francis Maiola, 82, Chapter 240, died April 8.
Ralph Doyle Penney, 82, Chapter 942, died March 27.
James M. Storer, 85, Chapter 1078, died September 3, 2025.
Richard F. Venable, 75, Chapter 1078, died March 22, 2025.
Roy Lee Williams, 79, Chapter 596, died April 7.

TEXAS
Mario Santos Aguilar, Sr., 83, Chapter 574, died December 3, 2025.
James Michael Cook, 78, Chapter 268, died May 21.
Gary M. Deitcher, 75, Chapter 685, died May 8.
Jaime Franco, 77, Chapter 574, died November 13, 2025.
Benito Fuentes, Sr., 78, Chapter 898, died April 2.
Ronald W. Gaenzle, 91, Chapter 574, died October 22, 2025.
George D. Jenkins, 81, at-large, died August 27, 2025.
Melba H.B. McCabe, 81, AVVA, Chapter 292, died May 28, 2025.
Guida Marie Murphy, 74, Chapter 991, died April 26.
Stephen Anthony Petter, 80, Chapter 343, died February 17.
Alfonzo Ramirez, Jr., 84, Chapter 1013, died April 11.
Ted Raymond Westmoreland, 80, Chapter 973, died recently.

VIRGINIA
Robert L. Hohman, Sr., 82, Chapter 227, died May 23, 2022.
Gary Dean Hoover, 84, Chapter 936, died April 21.
Noyse Elson King, Sr., 76, Chapter 48, died March 16.
Douglas A. Smarte, 78, Chapter 227, died April 7.

WASHINGTON
Arthur Fesler-Butts, 80, Chapter 102, died recently.

WEST VIRGINIA
Claude Hazelwood, 82, Chapter 628, died February 26.
Peter Henry Hoosier, 74, Chapter 628, died April 14.
Linwood Earl Keeter, 78, Chapter 906, died February 5.
Donnie Vern Sauls, 77, Chapter 860, died March 28.
Jerry Lee Whitt, Sr., 77, Chapter 628, died March 16.

WISCONSIN
Ruth E. Moore, 80, AVVA, Chapter 351, died recently.

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