Janet Weigand Carter, 99, died at her home on March 17, 2022, after a slow decline in health. Lorna Janet, also known as “Nettie” in her childhood, was born on September 25, 1922, in the Township of Ashford, Fond du Lac County on a Wisconsin dairy farm, the daughter of ...
March 21, 2022
Leesa Troy Crnogorac made her transition on October 7, 2014. Leesa grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. Having been trained as a singer in opera, oratorio, and concertizing, she performed throughout the Midwest. Leesa went to New York ...
January 10, 2015
Potential for New Therapies to Treat both Diseases The discovery of a molecular mechanism linking Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes could lead to exciting new drugs to treat both devastating diseases, according to new research published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers found that the gene for ...
September 30, 2010
Co-chaired by three members of CAF’s Research Consortium—Drs. David Holtzman, Sam Sisodia and Rudy Tanzi—participants included all the other members of the Research Consortium (except Virginia Lee, who had a prior commitment) and several invited guests whose records of research include valuable insights into this relationship. The guests were Michael ...
April 21, 2010
Ann Fluegel, 88, died on February 10. Ann was born in 1930 in Brooklyn. After high school, she worked as a bookkeeper in Manhattan. She married James Fluegel in 1960 and raised four boys. The family moved to East Brunswick, NJ in 1973 where she lived the remainder of her ...
February 13, 2019
Miriam (“Mim”) Dean Heard Stoddard Range was born on April 25, 1935 in Leland, Mississippi. She graduated from Leland High School, received a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern at Memphis (“Rhodes”), and a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Memphis State University. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, and ...
November 19, 2019
Gladys Giarratano (1929 – 2021) Gladys Giarratano of Devon, PA, loving and devoted mother and friend to all whose lives she touched, passed away in her sleep after a brief battle with pneumonia on Sunday, March 28, 2021 at Floral Creek Alzheimer’s Special Care Center in Yardley, PA. She was 91 years ...
April 1, 2021
