This list includes updates reported by family members, newspapers and other sources. Each entry includes name and graduation year date of the individual who passed. 

News of the passing of Western graduates may be shared with the university community by sending an email to alumni@western.edu. 

1950s

Richard “Dick” Bratton (‘54)

Walter Jackson (‘57)

Glenn Franklin George (’58)

Robert McGarvin (‘58)

1960s

• Ann Meredyth (’61)  
• Richard J. Mikkelsen (’61)
• Merrie McCrory (‘61)
• Louis Archuletta (’61)
• Nancy (Verzuh) Speedy (’61 & ’62) 
• Motter C. Thomas (’62) 
• Albert Campbell (‘63)
• Ethel Rice (’63)
• Gary Miller (’64)
• Sonja K. Pluess (’64)
• Charles C. Haitz (’64 & ’66)
• Richard Meyers (’65) 
• Paul Smith (’66)  
• Bobby L. Hicks (’66)
• Richard Montrose (’66)
• Jean (Finney) Halligan (’67) 
• Trudy Yaklich (’68)
• Patricia A. (Sievers) Huff (’69)

1970s

• John Brach (‘71)
• Donald J. Bromley (‘71)
• Mike Persson (’71)
• Nell E. Whiting (’71)
• John Gallagher (’72)
• William Austin Knowles (’72)
• Thomas R. Garber (’73)
• Steven A Biesmann (’74)
• John Harley Jr. (’74)  
• Thomas R. Allison (’75)
• Carolyn Joan (Burnett) Halliburton (’75)
• Cody Jo Ellen Wahto Sontag (’75)
• Rodney Hunter (’77)
• Jonathan Merrill Whiting (‘77)
• Thomas Whiteside (’78)
• Douglas A. Kennedy (’79)
• William “Buzz” Kolbe (’79)
•   

1980s

• Lynn E. Duncanson (’80)
• Steven B. Golnar (’80)
• Candi K. Borah (’82)
• Jeffrey D. Montano (‘82)
• Theodore D. Ingram (’86)
•   

1990s

• Kerrie K. Berns (McLean) (’92)
• Kevin Propernick (’93)
•   

2010s

• Eric Freson (’09)
• Hannah Erickson (’17)

2020s

• Sara Rosecrans (’20)

Emeritus Faculty & Staff

• Audrey Jean Miller
• Bobbie Pike
• Dr. Charles Tutor
• Don Radovich, Emeritus Professor of Art, 1964-1988
• Ruth Maguire, IT, 1981-1999