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In Memoriam

John Grocki

John "Jack" J. Grocki, 83, husband of the late Judith (Dixon) Grocki and later married to the late Kathryn (Hudak) Grocki, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 27, 2025, in Malvern, PA. Born in Springfield, MA, he was the son of the late John and Marcella...
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Robert Anderson

Robert Charles Anderson May 24, 1944 — February 17, 2025 Robert Charles Anderson, 80, “a monumental figure” in the field of American genealogy, as described by his colleagues, whose “influence … is vast—perhaps incalculable,” died on February 17, 2025 at the Dartmouth...
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Don Turcotte

Don Turcotte, the former Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering in the Department of Geological Sciences who brought his aeronautic research roots into pioneering collaborations in the study of mantle dynamics and plate tectonics, died Feb. 4 in Davis, California. He...
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Michael Sheetz

Michael Patrick Sheetz passed away on January 30th after living nearly eleven years with multiple myeloma. A service of sharing was held on Wednesday, February 5th at Carnes Brothers Funeral Home. Mike was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1946; his family moved to...
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