Susan Maher Van Ness ’14
Susan Maher Van Ness ’14 passed away on September 9, 2024. A full obituary can be found here.
Obituaries | 2010-2020
Anthony Brian Smith ’11
Anthony Brian Smith ’11 passed away on December 30, 2023. A full obituary can be found here.
Chia “Wade” Wei Hsu ’10
Chia “Wade” Wei Hsu ’10 passed away on July 31, 2024. A full obituary will be posted when it becomes available.
David Rogers Schwartz ’17
David Rogers Schwartz ’17, age 28, of South Hadley, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia, passed away in April 2023. He graduated from Amherst High School (Massachusetts) in 2013 and from Wesleyan University (Connecticut) in 2017 with honors. He completed courses at the London School of Economics and worked on wind technology. He had a passion for computer technology and built his first computer in 2009. He loved living in California, travel, skiing, piloting drones/aircraft and scuba diving. He was employed in cybersecurity for a national security agency and wanted to be an advocate for disabled officers. He leaves behind his parents, Eugene Schwartz MD and Susan Sturgeon, his fiancée, Tiffany Luong, and many friends and family members who he loved and who loved him dearly.
A tribute to David can be found here:
https://memories.lifeweb360.com/david-schwartz
Spencer McClain Sheridan ’10
Spencer McClain Sheridan ’10 passed away on January 4, 2021. A full obituary can be found here.
Sam Alexander McNutt ’13
Sam Alexander McNutt ’13 passed away on January 7, 2022. A full obituary can be found here.
Lan Hoang Tran ’17
Lan Hoang Tran ’17 passed away on Dec. 28, 2019.
Zachary Rosen ’11
Zachary Rosen ’11 passed away on May 18, 2019. A musician, Zachary majored in philosophy at Wesleyan. He was 30.
CLAIRE E. RANDALL ’12
CLAIRE E. RANDALL, an education training manager as well as a singer and composer, died Dec. 8, 2016, at age 27. A music major who was a natural-born singer and performer, she focused on ethnomusicology and jazz studies. She was a member of New Group and Mad Wow, and she starred in a mockumentary Web series called Wannabes. She led and collaborated on many musical projects. After graduation she joined Trot Fox as a vocalist and worked for Resonant Motion, a nonprofit that focused on facilitating the creation of inspirational music. She also worked as education and training manager at Patron Technology, a customer-relationship management technology company for the arts industry. Passionate about social justice, she was an active feminist and never lost sight of the marginalized. Survivors include her mother, Anita Randall, two siblings, and her partner for six years, Gabe Gordon ’11.
MATTHEW D. LAMOTHE ’10
MATTHEW D. LAMOTHE, a film producer, died Jan. 16, 2017, at age 30. A government major, he started his career working at Interactive Creative Management before becoming a producer at a private film production company. He later joined Tommy V Films. Notably, he was the executive producer for the award-nominated I’ll See You in My Dreams, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival; Intruders, which screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; and most recently, London Town. He enjoyed sports of all kinds, watching movies, and traveling around the world to exciting places where he met new people and experienced great opportunities. Among those who survive are his parents, Laura Beaudin Lamothe and Henri Lamothe ’80, M.D.; five siblings; his maternal grandparents; and many uncles, aunts, and cousins.