Obituaries
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Mary M. Doak, 91, former teacher and librarian, died June 1. She served as chair of the Humanities and Social Services Department for Donald Love Memorial Library at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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Alice H. Scott, 77, former deputy commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, died August 28 from a stroke. The Chicago Public Library honored her with the Trailblazer award in 2004 for spearheading the creation of the African American Service Commission of Chicago for Ethnic Celebrations.
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Jim Morris, 62, died July 25 after a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He served as executive director of Library and Community Services at Florida Gateway College in Lake City. Morris received the Florida Library Association’s 2012 Librarian of the Year award and was formerly the cochair of the statewide Task Force on the Future of Academic Libraries in Florida.
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Eileen Kavanagh, 66, former director of Bay Shore-Brightwaters (N.Y.) Public Library, died August 13 from endometrial cancer. Kavanagh served at the Farmingdale (N.Y.) Public Library before transferring to Bay Shore–Brightwaters Public Library where she served as reference librarian, assistant library director and director. Kavanagh renovated and expanded the library, earning the Citizen of the Year award in 2005 from the Bay Shore–Brightwaters Chamber of Commerce.
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Laura Phillips Mackay, 92, died August 25 after a brief illness. She served as the AFRO librarian and archivist of the AFRO Archives—a collection that documents African-American history in Baltimore, Maryland.
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David Lane, 61, biological sciences librarian and associate professor at the University of New Hampshire for 27 years, died August 25.
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Ernestine Libbey Kresser Locke, 97, died July 25. After earning a degree in 1938 from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, she held several professional positions as a librarian, serving at Oberlin (Ohio) College, Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts, Morrisville (Pa.) Free Library, and Millicent Library at Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
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Brother Frank Deibel, 103, died July 30. In 1926 he professed his first vows at Mount St. John in Dayton, Ohio. He served as librarian at a number of Ohio high schools before being appointed to the Marian Library at the University of Dayton, where he remained until 2001.
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Bernadette Callery, 64, died from ovarian cancer July 27. For 16 years, Callery worked as an assistant librarian at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. In 1987 she became a research librarian at the New York Botanical Garden Library. In 1994 she became librarian at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pennsylvania.
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Rosemary Furtak, 69, former librarian at Walker Art Center for 29 years, died of cancer July 8. Furtak built an internationally known collection of books designed by contemporary artists. The books won her a 2011 distinguished service award—the field’s highest honor—from the Art Libraries Society of North America. Furtak was an associate professor of art history and studio art and codirector of the Hillmar Art Gallery at the College of St. Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, from 1975 to 1981.
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Margaret Mahy, 76, died July 23 after being diagnosed with cancer. She worked for the Petone Public Library in New Zealand, and in 1967 for the School Library Service in Christchurch. In 1969, she published her first book, A Lion in the Meadow. Mahy wrote more than 120 books and won the UK Carnegie Medal for outstanding children’s writing twice.
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Michele Honochick, 63, died June 25 from a stroke. Since 1999, Honochick was the school librarian at Salisbury High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania.