Obituaries

James “Danny” Doss passed away May 17. Services May 24 at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, time TBD. Contact the church at 662-5107 for details.

Margaret P. Browne, a longtime resident of Los Alamos, died peacefully April 27 after a brief illness.  Margaret was born Sept. 15, 1923 in Richmond, Va., the third of four children born to Rev. Leland Jerome Powell and Mabel Richard Powell. She spent her childhood in Norwood, Ohio, where her father was the pastor of a large Baptist church.  
Growing up, Margaret excelled at both academics and sports, graduating as valedictorian of her high school class. Margaret attended Franklin College in Indiana as an undergraduate and then earned her master’s degree in clinical psychology at Ohio State University. It was there that she met Philip Browne, the brother of one of her friends.  

Kathleen Shafer

July 16, 1923 - April 22, 2012

Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. May 11 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Los Alamos.  Kathleen “Kay” Marie (Meissner) Shafer was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Charles Shafer, exactly 14 years to the day.  Interment will follow at Guaje Pines Cemetery.

Emma Rosocha died April 16  after a long illness.  She was born in Oakland, Calif. Jan. 9, 1954 the daughter of William J Riemer and Eunice K. Riemer.
Her family moved to Gainesville, Fla. when Emma was a year old.  In 1959, her father was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Tel Aviv, and Emma spent her kindergarten year in Israel.  Back in Florida, she went to the local elementary school until 1963, when the family moved to Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.  She attended Montgomery County, Maryland schools until high school.  She joined the Unitarian Church in 1969 when she was 13.