Joan Wright of Wallingford died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, April 19, in her home at Plush Mills Senior Living, following a long battle with dementia. Her illness was complicated by the coronavirus pandemic that restricted access to hospital care, but she never got the virus. She was in hospice care when she died. She was 87.

Kenneth Sidney Rawson passed away on Thursday, March 12, at Barclay Friends senior living community in West Chester. He had moved to Barclay recently, after living at his home on Garrett Avenue in Swarthmore since 1967. He was 90.

Rolf E. Christensen of Swarthmore and Town Bank, New Jersey, passed away on March 28. He was 74.

Ray Welbourn died peacefully on March 18. He was 100.

Candace C. Brosnan, of DuBois, Pennsylvania, passed away on March 17 in Pittsburgh. She was 72.

Virginia "Billie" Morse Minisci of Wallingford, formerly of Swarthmore, passed away on March 8. She was 91.

William Rowles Phillips, of Glen Mills, passed away on March 4. He had just celebrated his 95th birthday.

Brooke Powell Cottman passed away on February 13 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 89.

Betty Tucker Hendrickson of Newtown Square died peacefully on February 17. She was 94.

Dr. Harold Pagliaro, Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Provost Emeritus, and Senior Research Scholar at Swarthmore College, passed away on February 15 after a four months’ illness. He was 94.

Betty Lou Cutlip Reed of Weston, West Virginia, died on February 18 after a long struggle with dementia. She was 88.

Katharine (“Kathy”) Margaret Downing Myers died January 30, at home in the senior community of Kendal-Crosslands in Kennett Square. She was 93.

Harriet (Sibby) Toland died February 10, from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 93.

Nancy Moore Ruskin died January 29. She was 86.

Richard “Hal” H. Welsh, of Lewes, Delaware, passed away on Thursday, January 23, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was 71. 

Michael William Rapp, son of Michael E. and Hazel C. Rapp, died on January 20 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 71.

A longtime resident of Swarthmore, Ray Ripper passed away on January 21 from complications of Parkinson's disease, at home at Rose Tree Place in Media. He was 86.

Ann Blackburn died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, January 18, at Monticello House in Riddle Village, Media. Complications of the dementia she had suffered through for the past several years finally took her life. 

Robert L. Long Jr., 69, of Wallingford, died peacefully on Monday, January 13, surrounded by his family and friends, after a courageous battle with leukemia.