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In Memoriam
George Stanley Rader passed away quietly at home on October 12 with his loving wife by his side. He was 97 years old.
Brian Hugh Bramson passed peacefully at home Thanksgiving morning 2025 with his wife of 34 years Andrea by his side. We want to think he waited for everyone to be in town for the holiday before taking his last breath at 8:20 a.m.
Tom Palmatier, devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend to so many, passed away suddenly from cardiac arrest on November 18, 2025.
Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, United States Air Force, a Texas-born son of a World War II bomber pilot and longtime Florida resident who rose to lead both the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency and later helped build America's modern cyber capabilities from the private sector, died November 1, 2025 in FL.
Daniel J. Edwards, retired computer scientist and early computer pioneer passed away peacefully Monday, January 27, 2025 close to his home in Troutville, Virginia.
Eugene Hasenfus, who as a 45-year-old former Marine and laid-off construction worker was thrust into the national spotlight in 1986 when, on a covert mission sponsored by the C.I.A., his gunrunning cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua, setting off what would become known as the Iran-contra affair, died on Wednesday at his home in Menominee, Mich. He was 84.
Eli Zeira, the Israeli major general and military intelligence chief who was forced out of his job after dismissing warnings that Syria and Egypt were on the verge of the attacks in 1973 that started the Yom Kippur War, died on Friday. He was 97.
Ken Minihan headed west on his final mission Saturday evening, rejoining his parents, Chuck and Shirley. He fought heroically till the end, surrounded by his wife, children, and one granddaughter, and when the timing was perfect, he let go like the gentleman he was, with grace and dignity.
Julian Leroy Fletcher, affectionately known to all as “Fletch,” passed away peacefully in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at the age of 93. Born in Marshall, Virginia, he was the beloved son of Margaret Reid Fletcher and Julian Raymond Fletcher.