Obituaries

Corey Salazar, 32, died of brain cancer August 5. Since 2004, Corey had served as a librarian at Cabrini College in Philadelphia.

Stella Reed, 90, died of respiratory complications July 25. Reed served as children’s librarian at the Cherrydale, Central, and Aurora branches of Arlington (Va.) Public Library and the Duncan branch of Alexandria (Va.) City Library from the 1960s until her retirement in 1985.

Velma June Butler McKnight, 70, who had worked as a management librarian at San Diego Public Library, died July 28.

Elizabeth Burnette, 47, died August 9. For the past 10 years Burnette was head of the content licensing and acquisitions department at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She previously worked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Library in Philadelphia.

Marie Marsh, 101, who served as director of MacDonald Public Library in New Baltimore, Michigan, for 41 years, died August 16. Marsh was the library’s first and longest-serving librarian, collecting books door-to-door in 1941 to start the collection.

Letitia Reigle, 59, died of cancer August 4. Reigle served in the Dewey Section (and its predecessor, the Decimal Classification Division) of the Library of Congress’s U.S. General Division for the last 35 years.

Melzetta P. Laws, 90, died due to respiratory failure August 2. Laws was manager of the Dogwood Branch Library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library from 1965 until her retirement in 1993.

Carol Anne Quinn, 72, died July 23. Carol was a retired librarian from Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Jefferson City, Missouri.

John Kallenberg, 69, died July 4 after battling cancer for several months. He was head of the Fresno County (Calif.) Public Library from 1976-2003, when he retired. He served as President of the California Library Association from 1981 to 1982, and served on the California Library Services Board from 1996 to 1998.

Hester Miller, 90, died July 9. Miller was arts specialist at Albuquerque (N. Mex.) Public Library from 1958 until her retirement in 1982. Prior to that, she held librarian positions at Detroit Public Library, New York Public Library, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and the American Association of Accountants.

Esther Sandstrom, 95, died of heart failure May 26. She was former head librarian at Ridgely Middle School in Lutherville, Maryland.

Anita Prieto, 74, former assistant librarian for Nutley (N.J.) Public Library for 23 years before retiring in 2004, died June 8.