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Linda M Svarney
3-26-1948 to 1-16-2022

Goooo There, my ma/gma
But ya may already be there

Goooo There, my ma/gma
But ya may already be there 

Goooo There, my ma/gma, 
To the beach of your dreams

Be forever freeee of pain & pills

Be forever freeee of wain & bills

Forever enjoy the beach of your dreams

And forever devour the food with creams

Without any more pain, pill, wain and bill

Goooo There, my ma/gma
But ya may already be there

Goooo There, my ma/gma,
To the beach of your dreams

And be forever Freeeee

Best Regards,
Lad Baird

Son 

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Linda Svarney

1948-2022

 

Linda Svarney died of a heart attack on January 16, 2022. She is survived by her Deaf son, Ladimer “Lad” Baird, Deaf daughter-in-law, Colleen and their children in Indiana. Linda was a doting grandmother of four grandchildren, Skyla, River (Deaf), Isla and Seanna (Deaf).

 

Our thoughts are with Linda’s family.




Linda and her Deaf son, Lad in the fall of 2021.

Note:
Thanks goes to Leslie Milam Zinza for sharing her friend's photo of Linda and Lad with us.

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Nancy Thayer Daniels

1948-2022

-       Graduated from Michigan School for the Deaf (MSD)

-       Our classmate at Gallaudet from 1966-1968

-       Three children – two of them are Deaf from her first marriage

-       Married the late Ronnie Zuchegno, E-‘71 in 1997

-       Retired from MSD in 2008 after 32 years of service

-       Became a widow in 2009

-       Married Philip Daniels, ’69 in 2015

-       Proud grandmother to several grandchildren

-       Active member of the Flint Association of the Deaf

 

Nancy.Thayer

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Sources:

Jane Kuzoian

Tom Benziger

Class of 1971 Golden Anniversary Memory Book


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There is a website on Nancy Thayer Daniels passing... Hopefully additional information will be provided later.


https://www.nelson-house.com 

(Nelson-House Funeral Homes in Owosso, MI)

Nancy Daniels 

February 18, 1948-January 7, 2022

Age 73 of Swartz Creek passed away Friday, January 7, 2022.

Further arrangements will be announced for Nancy.

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To the Class of 1971:


Here is a photo of our 45th wedding anniversary on December 11th, 2021 at the Rezz Hotel, Newton - a suburb in Adelaide, South Australia.

Warren and Julie Kramer (photo below)





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Mugshot: Carolyn

Carolyn S. Ball rested in peace on June 24, 2021 at age of 71.  The graveside service was held on September 1, 2021 in Manor, Texas.

 

She was one of the illustrators for the Knob Hill News, 1966-1967.  


Carolyn graduated from Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, St. Augustine, Florida.  She received a degree in art from Gallaudet in 1972. She got her bachelor and master's degrees in media from University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1974.  

 

Carolyn was the first deaf to be employed at the Caption Center, WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974.

 

Carolyn was the first president of the newly formed Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf in 1975.

 

Carolyn served on the advisory board for Spectrum, Focus on Deaf Artists in Austin from 1978-1985. 


She received a teacher's certificate from University of Texas in Austin in 1994 and bilingual certificate in 2004.  She retired from Texas School for the Deaf after 30 years of service in 2014.

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Sources:

-Tom Benziger

- King-Tears Mortuary of Austin, Texas

Class of 1971 Golden Anniversary Memory Book