Memorial Day Ceremony

One of the most caring traditions of the ISU Retirees Association is to host a Memorial Day Ceremony to honor all ISU retirees, their spouses or partners, and current faculty or staff whose passing we have been notified of since May 1 of the previous year.

The most recent ceremony was held on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Family and friends joined together in person and online to share their remembrances during the program. Click the Watch the ceremony icon below to watch a recording of the event.

Those who were remembered

Gary Aitchison
Lloyd Anderson
Lorma Andrews-Marcue
Carol Bailey
Carol Beck
George Beran
Roger Berger
Pearl Betts
Nancy Bohlen
Ferne Bonomi
David Boylan
Carol Brophy
Leona Brown
Kathleen Butts
Marjorie Chilcote
Beverly Christenson
John Christenson
Kathy Connor
Harold Cowles
Gary Cox
Gaylan Crim
George Cummins
Lee Davidson
Paul DeJong
Lloyd Downing
Richard Gaertner
Nani Ghoshal
Donald Graves

Virginia Hall
Robert Harvey
Sue Henderson
Carolann Henry
Norma Egger
Lowell Elwick
Kathleen Emmel
Florence Ferden
Jody Fox
Richard FreemanDean Henry
Norma Hensley
James Hill
Tahira Hira
Roland Jenison
Edward Jeska
Lester Johnson
Mary Johnson
Ruth Jones
Russell Kahler
Paul Kaufmann
Eileen Kayser
William Kelly
Erwin Klaas
Jerry Knox
Vladimir Kogan
Roger Koster
Judith Kunesh

Kathleen Larson
Lisa Larson
Roger Leininger
Jean Lem
Myron Lindell
Joyce Losure
Marshall Luban
Dennis Maxwell
Ruth McCully
Lyle McGlynn
Lois Mens
John MillerMavis Moklestad
Marilyn Mortvedt
Wendell Mortvedt
Ardella Mostrom
Donna Newbrough
Coleen Nutty
Frankee Oleson
Jean Olson
Peter Pattee
Shirley Patterson
James Peake
R. Brent Pearce
Buckley Peterson
Terry Pickett
Bion Pierson
Andrejs Plakans
Debra Pospisil

Patricia Post
Carolyn Potter
Jean Prestemon
Mirjana Randic
Joseph Rivera
Ronald Roth
Gary Russell
Wendell Ryder
Charles Sage
Ronald Sanson
Diane Schroeder
Carole Seifert
Howard Shapiro
Lester Shickell
Ruth Shickell
Harry (Ron) Shreve
John Sjoblom
Myron Smuck
Elizabeth Starleaf
Robert Streit
M. K. Sturies
David Swanson
Lester Thompson
Ann Thye
Carl Vondra
Thomas Walsh
Helen Westcot
Donald Whalen
Shirley Wood


Sponsors

This remembrance is sponsored by the ISU Retirees Association and planned by the ISU Retirees Association Memorial Day Committee and ISUAA staff.

Green Hills Logo

A special thank you to Green Hills Retirement Community for providing the floral decorations for the tables, and Peter Lawlor in the ISU Horticulture Department for supplying flower boxes for those retirees buried this year in the ISU Cemetery.