Obituaries | 1980-1989

ELLEN S. Miller, a writer and a teacher of creative writing, died Dec. 23, 2008. She was 41. An honors graduate of Wesleyan, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned an MFA from the New York University’s creative writing program, where she also received a fellowship for fiction. She was also awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony, among others. Her first novel, Like Being Killed, was published in 1998; her second, Stop Drop, Roll, is unfinished, although an excerpt appeared in the anthology, Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From the Edge (2003). She is survived by her partner, Christopher Rowell, her stepfather, Scott Hyde, her two brothers, and her god–daughter.

DAVID N. MARCHETTI, a social services worker, died Sept. 28, 2007, at age 45. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he worked at the Oak Hill School and at MARC: Community Resources. Survivors include his father; his sister, Sandra DiPietro ’95; and a niece and nephew.

CHARLES A. MORSS III, M.D., a physician, died Jan. 21, 2008. He was 50. Survivors include his parents, two brothers, and a sister.

An investment banker, died Feb. 17, 2013, at age 53. He received an MBA from New York University and embarked on an investment banking career that took him and his family around the world. Survivors include his wife, Jeanne Clark Langille, four children, three siblings, and a large extended family.

LAURIE A. LINTON, an attorney in the public sector, died Jan. 10, 2005. She was 46 and had received her law degree from Columbia University. She held positions with the New York State Attorney General’s office, several New York City agencies, and had been counsel to the New York State governor’s office. Her work encompassed campaign finance legislation, welfare reform, the state budget, and charities fraud. She was also an activist in the gay and lesbian community and was a founder of the Empire State Pride Agenda. She is survived by her brother; her longtime companion, Murphy; and many friends.

SARAH HANNAH, a teacher and poet, died May 23, 2007, at age 40. She received a master’s degree in fine arts in creative writing and a PhD in literature from Columbia University. Her work appeared in several literary journals, and she was a semifinalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 2002. She taught at Emerson College and at the time of her death was awaiting publication of her second volume of poetry. Survivors include her husband, Robert O’Hagan ’89, and her father, stepmother, and stepsister.

WILLIAM H. DAUGHERTY JR., a pharmaceutical consultant, died July 5, 2010. He was 49 and had most recently worked for CIGNA in Tennessee. Among those who survive are his wife, Laura Lamb Daugherty, his mother, his daughter, two aunts, and many cousins.

It is with great sadness that we report the death of DARIA DONNELLY, Class of 1981. Daria died in Boston, Massachusetts on September 21, 2004, three years after her first symptoms of multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow. She leaves her husband, Steven Weissburg, and two children, Leo and Josephine.

A native of Pittsburgh, she received her elementary and secondary education from Mercy nuns. After majoring in religion at Wesleyan University, Daria taught in an inner-city high school, cooked for a Catholic Worker house in Rochester, NY, and spent a year studying (Hebrew and religion), traveling, and dog-watching in Jerusalem. A love of literature and desire to integrate that with religious studies led Daria to a PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. She studied nineteenth-century American poetry and theodicy under the MacArthur genius grantee Allen Grossman. Teaching (at Boston University), research, and writing followed. In 2000, she joined the staff of Commonwealth Magazine, an independent journal of opinion edited and managed by lay Catholics, as Associate Editor At Large and Poetry Editor.

JOHANN R. CLARY, D.D.S., a periodontist, died Nov. 25, 2002. He was 41. A member of Psi Upsilon, he received a dental degree from Northwestern University Dental School. He wrote, taught, and lectured about the field of periodontics and was active in professional organizations. He is survived by a son, his parents, a brother, a sister, and his former wife, Avril Patch Clary ’84.

AVRIL P. CLARY, who owned an online design company, died Apr. 18, 2009. She was 46. The widow of Johann Clary ’84, she received an MBA from the University of Colorado in 1987. Their 12-year-old son, Max, survives, as does her brother-in-law.