Rosalie “Rose” Polkowski House, a fifty-year resident of Swarthmore, passed away at her home on November 17, 2019, from cardiovascular heart disease. She was 86.

Kathleen Virginia L’Armand passed away in her home in Swarthmore on November 16, 2019. She was 77. She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Adrian; four children, Felix (Angela), Nathan (Lori), Catherine (Jeremy), and Jacob; seven grandchildren, Phineas, Beatrice, Oliver, Sidney, Maeve, Samuel, and Leo; a sister, Sally; and brothers, Warren, Paul, and Scott. Kathleen was predeceased by her sister Carol.

Longtime Swarthmore resident Richard “Dick” Lee Corrigan died on Wednesday, November 6, 2019, at the Snow Hill Nursing Home. He was 86. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Corrigan was the son of the late Henry and Cleta Franey Corrigan. 

Thomas Hewett of Wallingford died at the age 78 on October 26, 2019. Tom was born in Logan, Utah, to Frank and Louise Hewett. Tom is survived by his loving wife, Angela, whom he married in 1968; three children, Kathryn Giorgianni (Frank), Eric (Anna), and Dave; eight grandchildren; and his sister, Sara Osborne of Salt Lake City.

Andrew Wayne Moss, a 1986 alumnus of Strath Haven High School, died October 10 in Plainfield, N.J. He was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease in 2004, as was late his father, William Wayne Moss, formerly of Swarthmore.

Dietlind “Linde” Heintz, age 88, died on July 10, 2019. Linde was born in Kraliky, Czech Republic, in 1930. At the end of World War II, her family left their home and fled to Vienna, Austria. She and her sister lived in a children’s home sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee for the next few years until her parents were able to secure an apartment adequate to house them as a family. After high school, Linde attended a textile school and worked in the textile industry.

Thompson Bradley, Emeritus Professor of Russian at Swarthmore College, passed away at his Rose Valley home surrounded by his family and their love for him. He died of renal disease at age 85.

Mary R. Welsh passed away peacefully in her sleep on August 16, 2019 at her nursing home at Shell Point, Fort Myers, Florida. She was born Mary Rose Williams in Gaddsten, Alabama, on June 22, 1932. She was the eldest of two children. Her family moved to Columbus, Ga., where Mary excelled as a student, graduating from high school at the age of 15. Around the same time, she was discovered by a modeling agency. She was first a hand and foot model, and then later, a model for Coca-Cola. She featured prominently in the highly successful “Have a Coke” campaign.

Edmund Jones of Swarthmore passed away on September 14, 2019 at the age of 101. Ed was born on April 15, 1918 in Chester, Penna to the late Henry Walter Jones and Margaret Witmer Jones. In 1930 the family moved to Swarthmore. He graduated from Swarthmore High School (1935), Swarthmore College (1939), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1942). In 1941 he married Adalyn F. Purdy (Lyn). They were married for 72 years until she passed in 2013.

Longtime Lincoln County, New Mexico, resident Beverly Hammond died peacefully in her sleep on August 10, 2019. The only daughter of Foster and June Putney, Beverly was born and raised in Denver, Colo. After college and a career with United Airlines, she married and raised a family in Swarthmore, Pa.

Robert Byron Downer, of Media, Pa., died at home on August 30, 2019 after a lengthy illness. Bob was 89.

Frederic L. Pryor, a former long-time resident of Swarthmore, passed away peacefully on September 2, 2019 at White Horse Village in Newtown Square, where he had lived for the previous 11 years. He was 86 years old.