Obituaries

John Bednark ’63 passed away on Feb. 24, 2020. An obituary will be posted when it becomes available.

John Griffin Jr. ’94 passed away on March 5, 2020 at the age of 47. A full obituary can be found here. At Wesleyan, John majored in history. He played football and lacrosse at Wesleyan and he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

His mother Carolyn Griffin said, “John enjoyed sailing, skin diving, and squash in his free time. He also enjoyed opera and historical bios. His two cats Perseus and Cleopatra were his soulmates as he battled this disease with a fierce determination for eight years.”

Thank you to John’s mother Carolyn Griffin for providing the photos.

Lan Hoang Tran ’17 passed away on Dec. 28, 2019.

Scott Timberg ’91 passed away on Dec. 10, 2019. A full obituary can be found here.

Samuel A. Lieber ’79 passed away on June 21, 2019. A full obituary can be found here.

“Deborah Stuckey Mulhern ’78 passed away on Jan. 6, 2019, surrounded by family and friends, including two daughters and a son—Kiera, Hayley, and Will. She had been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer five years earlier. Marilyn Fagelson ’78, Elise Bean ’78, and I had visited with her just two weeks before, spending a lovely day trimming her Christmas tree and cherishing what was clearly close to the end of 45 years of friendship that started in Clark Hall freshman year and wound through Delta Tau and the William Street apartments and Foss Hill and McConaughy. Debbie was a government major and then got her doctorate in psychology from Boston U and Harvard.  She was a family relationship therapist with her own practice in Washington, D.C. At Wes, Debbie was a fabulous dancer and singer. Her intense joy in music, among countless other things, will be remembered by us and many other classmates.”

Thank you to Ruth Pachman ’78 for this heartfelt tribute.