MENC is notified of deaths of members throughout the year through state music educators associations, family members and other sources. The list will be updated as association staff learns of member deaths. MENC acknowledges these members for their years of service to the profession of music education.
California
Doug Burton, a 49-year member, Poway
Steve Connolly, Cloverdale
Lovell Johnson, Kingsbury
Kathryn K. North, 65 years, La Jolla
Deborah A. Reinhardt, Chico
Georgia
Troy C. Henson, 10-year member, Flowery Branch
Nellie Stokes, 11 years, Decatur
Illinois
Annette Cooper, 17 years, Aurora
John H. Pearce, 43-year life member, Naperville
Indiana
Thomas P. McCarthy, five years, Terre Haute
Iowa
August Knoll, 42 years, Wheatland
Kansas
Jerry Ramsey, 32 years, Wichita
Missouri
Alycia Davis, 22 years, St. Charles
New Hampshire
Robert Tobin, 25 years, Lancaster
New Jersey
James Truscello, 56 years, Monroe Township
New Mexico
Caroline Evans, 3 years, Santa Rosa
Gregg Randall, 63 years, Las Cruces
New York
Robert Berk, 57 years, Wantagh
Karen Lucas, five years, Geneva
John Mikulski, 13 years, Oakfield
James Steeves, 15 years, Kingston
Bonnie W. Tennant, 38 years, Auburn
Linda Wagner, 11 years, Burnt Hills
Ohio
Nick Coulles, 17 years, Kettering
Jay Hall, 49 years, Marion
Stuart Ling, 59 years, Wooster, Ohio Music Educators Association President, 1980-82
William Jack McBride, lifetime member, 58 years, Findlay
Dean Allen Stitz, 54 years, West Milton
Pennsylvania
Barner S. Swartz, 60 years, Millerstown
Christopher Wasylyshyn, 30 years, Punxsutawney
Tennessee
T. Earl Hinton, Murfreesboro, president of the Tennessee Music Educators Association 1978-80 and MENC Southern Division President, 1988-1990.
Utah
Elizabeth H. Dabczynski, 60 years, Provo
Kenneth Kuchler, 58 years, Salt Lake City
Vermont
Leigh Lamphere, nine years, Morrisville
Virginia
Mildred Trevvett, life member, 61 years, Richmond
Washington
Coyne Burnett, Ellensburg, Washington, MENC Northwest Division President Conference from 1979–1981
Melvin Kornmeyer, 59 years, Spokane
Randall Rockhill, a 65-year member who was president of the Washington Music Educators Association from 1958–1960 and MENC Northwest Division President from 1963–65, Renton
Mark Williams, 15 years, Bellingham
