East Upper High School Alumni Obituaries

Canaan NH Theodore Lawrence Occhi 91 passed away in the comfort of his home on Saturday December 20 2025. He was born to the late Ementore Theresa Grasso Occhi on new years Eve 1933. He grew up in Berlin CT and graduated from E.C. Goodwin Technical High School where he lettered in baseball. He the...

Wallace E. Bragdon Jr. Wally95 A veteran retired postmaster local icon born on 10201928 passed away on January 27 2024 at Marshwood Nursing Home. He was born raised and a lifelong resident of New Gloucester until this fall when he fell ill. Wally was a graduate of New Gloucester High School in 1946...

Ruth C. Dietrich formerly of Perkasie PA passed away Monday December 15 2025 at Hidden Meadows on the Ridge Sellersville PA. She was 90. She was the loving wife of 54 years of the late Harold C. Whitey Dietrich Jr. until his passing on December 15 2009. Born in Philadelphia PA she was the daughter o...

Eric Shoemaker Taylor of Havertown, Pa. passed away in the presence of his family on January 13, 2026, after bravely fighting cancer for the last year. Eric is the beloved husband of 25 years to Christa T. (nee Stefanski) Taylor and the loving father of Emma Norcross Taylor, Chloe Morrison Taylor, a...

John J. Heron Jr. "Jack" 85 of Wilmington Delaware passed away peacefully at home on January 11 2026. The eldest of seven Jack was born in Philadelphia in 1940 to Mary and John Heron Sr. He graduated from Monsignor Bonner High School in 1958. He was a resident of Upper Darby until 1971 when he moved...

Margaret Ann Peggy Boots Lancton nee Lindberg was born in Fredericton New Brunswick Canada to Dorothy and Malcolm Lindberg. She passed away peacefully on Saturday 1102026 at her home in Fair Haven NJ. At about the age of 9 she and her family moved to the upper west side of Manhattan where she was ra...

Nancy Ann Burrows Schreffler 88 passed away peacefully on November 30 2025 with her loving husband of 69 years William C. Schreffler by her side. She was born on October 4 1937 to Harvey and Edith Reisch Burrows in Upper Paxton Township Pennsylvania. She resided at the Masonic Village at Elizabethto...

Tessa Gowen Ader, one of Charlottesville’s leading philanthropists, passed away peacefully at her home in Charlottesville on January 5, 2026 at the age of 92 after a long illness. Her gift in September 2020 of $50 million to establish the Tessa and Richard Ader Performing Arts Center was the largest...