The world is more dimly lit since Mark Stranahan, the middle child of George and Betsy Stranahan, died on Dec. 30, 2020 at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a result of complications of septic necrotizing pancreatitis. He was 63. Mark’s journey began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Jan. 30, 1957. He […]
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John Robin Sutherland – Obituary
5 March 1951 – 18 December 2020 John Robin Sutherland, the pony-tailed, cultured and celebrated principal pianist for the San Francisco Symphony for more than four decades, died at his home in San Francisco, California on Dec. 18, 2020, following a brief illness. He was 69. Known for many years simply as Robin Sutherland (he […]
Obituary: Wesley Pate Horner
April 29, 1925 – Oct. 27, 2020 Wes Horner passed away in Bozeman, Montana on October 27. He was 95. Wes grew up in Roanoke in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and spent his summers on the family cotton farm in Georgia. After overcoming polio as a child, he lived by the motto, “When […]
