Obituaries
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Karen Stevens, 64, retired librarian at St. Luke's United Church of Christ in Lititz, Pennsylvania, died March 13. She also worked as a school librarian for Valley Elementary School in Bensalem for 30 years and was a member of the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association. After retirement, Stevens volunteered as librarian for Londonderry Private School in Harrisburg.
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Jane Gray Smith, 98, retired associate professor of literature at West Chester (Pa.) University, died March 9. She worked as a high librarian in West Lampeter, Phoenixville, and Manheim Township, and taught library science and supervised the Training School Library in Millersville. Smith also created the position of supervisor of school libraries for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
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Marjorie "Marge" (Landon) Shelden, 86, former librarian at Ganges United Methodist Church in Fennville, Michigan, died February 19,
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Matilda "Tillie" Pysyk, 96, longtime Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin librarian and columnist, died February 11.
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Betty C. Miller, 89, founding librarian of the first full-service library in Milo, Iowa, died March 27 of a stroke.
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Marjorie MacCracken, 102, former chief librarian for Moral Re-Armament, an international Christian moral and spiritual movement, died February 7. She also served as librarian for Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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Genoah Knowles, 93, former elementary school librarian and music teacher, died February 4.
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Ruth Munn Kilgallon, 56, librarian at Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation Library's South Carolina History Room, died March 8. She received library's Directors Award for Customer Service in 2009. Kilgallon was selected to receive the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation Scholarship to attend the University of South Carolina's Master's Program in Library and Information Science in 2010. She was approximately three-quarters of the way through the program at the time of her death.
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Jo Ann Mayfield Keplinger, 70, retired coordinator of Library and Media Services at Lodi (Calif.) Unified School District, died January 29, after a two-year struggle with an aggressive breast cancer. She also worked as assistant librarian in Fremont and coordinator of district elementary schools at Lincoln Unified School District. Keplinger was president of the Association of California School Administrators and served on the Young Readers Medal Committee for the California Media and Library Educators Association.
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Janet H. Hughes, 91, retired high school librarian at North Syracuse (N.Y.) School District, died March 16.
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Mary Louise Helwig-Rodriguez, 46, children’s librarian at Little Falls (N.J.) Public Library, died March 14 after battling a recent illness. She was vocal when Gov. Chris Christie proposed funding cuts for the state’s public libraries and took part in a protest rally in Trenton in spring 2010.
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Elnora Gayden, school librarian at Martin Luther King Middle School in Monroe, Louisiana, died suddenly February 12. She reportedly went to the hospital to visit her sister, who also died the same day, and collapsed in the hospital.