Obituaries | 2000-2010

KATHERINE A. ROELTGEN, a nurse, died Mar. 6, 2017, at age 36. She received a master’s degree in nursing from Yale University in 2008. A volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, most recently in the South Sudan, she also worked at New York Presbyterian Hospital and at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Her parents, David and Margaret Roeltgen, survive, as do two brothers, two aunts, three nieces and nephews, and many cousins.

ASHLEY A. SANFORD, a musician and writer, died Mar. 8, 2017. She was 33 and had been in ill health for more than 10 years. A talented musician and writer, she was working on a memoir at the time of her death, hoping to help other Type I diabetics and organ transplant recipients. Her parents, Bruce and Marilou Sanford survive, as do her sister and brother, and a nephew and niece.

ANDREW F. WILLIAMSON, a high school English teacher and camp director, died May 5, 2017, at age 40. After receiving a master’s degree from Brown University in secondary English education, he taught high school English, most recently at Rolling Hills Preparatory School in San Pedro, Calif. A gifted athlete and lover of the outdoors, for many summers he shared this spirit with children as a staff member and director of Shire Village Camp. He is survived by his wife of two months, Erin Lanahan; his mother; his father; his brother; and a close friend, Abby Levine.