Tag: Departed 2018

Juni Doyle ~ Class of 1976

Departed 10/15/2018 ~ Cancer

I lost my sister Juni Doyle Gamard on October 15, 2018 to cancer. She was only 59 years old. Class of ‘76.

Shelly Doyle Munn ’75

Hans Loudermilk ~ Class of 1967

Departed ~ 5/14/2017

Hans Loudermilk Class of 1967 passed away last night, May 14, 2018, in San Jose Costa Rica. He was visiting me at my house in Playa Negra, Guanacaste and had a severe bleeding episode requiring emergency room attention. He was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver caused by Hepatitis C and internal bleeding

Let me know if you need more details.

Regards to my brothers,

Gary Lee Smith

Kenny Warren ~ Class of 1967

Departed ~ 7/17/2018

 

 

Ken Warren Tribute Video

Ken Warren, 70, of Katy Texas, passed away on July 17, 2018. He was born in Dallas, Texas on July 30, 1947 to Ken, Sr. and Juanita Warren. He was married to Joni Warren for 26 years. Ken had a career in sales for Milestone Distributors for over 30 years. He was a member of Willow Fork Country Club and had a passion for his family, golfing, and fishing. He was preceded in death by his father William Kenneth Warren, Sr. and his mother Juanita North Warren.

He is survived by his wife, Joni, son Kyle, of Katy, Texas, son Trey Warren and daughter-in-law Mara Voracher-Warren of St. Louis, MO, granddaughter Kathleen Warren and grandson Will Warren of St. Louis, MO and several nieces and nephews and many friends who he touched over the years.

Brian Burleigh ~ Class of 1973

Departed ~ 4/8/2018 ~ Cancer

 

 

January 2002 ~ ISB 50th Celebration in Bangkok

Dave DeButts ~ Class of 1967

Departed  ~ 7/18/2018

 

 

Georgia Moore Crump ~ Class of 1971

Departed ~ 3/24/2018 ~ Heart Failure

 

 

 

Phillipe W. Ritter (ISB73)

It is with a broken heart that I give tribute to Georgia Moore Crump who passed away March 24, 2018. As I understand, Georgia and her husband were coming home from dinner with friends. She complained to her husband that she did not feel well and to head to the emergency room. Georgia died of a heart attack that evening. She is survived by her husband, son, mother, and her brother Derek (ISB73). Georgia’s daughter passed away June 2017. Her father passed some time ago. In Memory of Georgia Moore Crump ISB, Class of 1972

I have never met someone who was so cheerful, positive, effervescent, and full of life. I have never met anyone who did not like, love, or cherish her. Those attributes certainly kept her from crumbling through the loss of her daughter and as a nurse working in hospice care. Things that would kill most of us.

My fondest remembrances of her lead me back to my ISB days. Georgia sang and played the organ in the Internationals for which I played bass during one of its incarnations. This was not the ISB Young Internationals, which she was also member of, but a pop/soul/dance band that played the Teen Club often. It was a hard-working band that was led by our singer, Loli Pettegrew (ISB70). Between practice and gigs, we spent much time together. On late nights coming home in the back of the Pettegrew’s station wagon, we often slept warmly against each other.

I would visit her and her brother Derek in Florida during college Christmas breaks in the 70’s. We lost touch as we moved on. Georgia became a nurse, married Bill Crump, had a son, adopted a Chinese baby girl, lived abroad. In the late 90’s, she could not resist her fellow ISBings. She started attending reunions. Her work to gather and sing with the Young Internationals at the Daytona Reunion showed how much she was a part of us.

I lost a few days of functionality when her dear friend Lee Quillin (ISB73) reached me and gave me the news. I will forever miss Georgia and her endless smile. May her memory heal my heart. I imagine her spirit is soaring. May it visit us from time to time. Phillipe W. Ritter (ISB73)

Kathy Vandewater ~ Class of 1977

Departed ~ 03/06/2017 ~ Cancer

 

 

Michael Bongo Jepsen ~  1970

Departed ~ July 23, 2018

 

 

Michael Andrew Jepsen, age 66, passed away at his home in Boise, Idaho, on 23 July 2018. He was born 6 July 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, the youngest of six children of Darwin Howard Jepsen and Lola Erma Christensen.

Mike loved to be seated at his drum set, with a pair of drumsticks in his hands – that’s when he came alive. In casual conversation, he would often pick up on something a person said and immediately relate it to a song. He had a love affair with music throughout his life, playing with various groups, working a few years with Bonneville Productions as a recording engineer, and general partner with Light Productions in Salt Lake City.

In the years after his graduation from the International School of Bangkok in Thailand, he attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; and, Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. His passport served him well as he lived in Lebanon, Ethiopia, Panama, and Thailand.

He married Jan Bowman in 1976, and they later divorced. He then married Anita Lindberg, and stepped in to be a father figure to the Fierro children Emily, Chris, Jesse, and John. Emily said of him, “Mike came into our family’s life right when we needed him the most. Not only was he an incredible step-dad, but he was also a very proud father, grandfather, talented musician, deep thinker and a truly genuine friend. His memory will be sustained by so many of his friends and family who loved him deeply.”

He and Anita produced the love of his life, daughter Alexandra Michel Jepsen, and he experienced the thrill of watching her grow, marry Josh Ellerman, and have children of their own, Winnie and Wolfie. After he and Anita divorced, he moved to Maryland where he reconnected with and married a life-long friend and fellow musician Terry Rogers. He found joy in helping with her boys Jay and Alex, and enjoyed many years working with them in the Boy Scouts of America. He and Terry loved getting together with old friends at the ISB (International School Bangkok) reunions.

In 2010 he moved to Boise, where he lived with his mother and assisted in her care until she passed away. He will be missed by his siblings: Terry Nelson (Zane), Kerry Butler (David), Darwin Lee Jepsen (Sally), Keith Jepsen (Janet), Karl Jepsen (Ann). He is survived by his daughter Alex and spouse Josh Ellerman and their children, step-children, and friends he made over the years.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to Tara Brumpton of Boise Family Medicine; she truly cared about him as she helped him deal with various health challenges.

A family graveside service will be held 4 August 2018 in Wendell, Idaho, where he will be buried close to his parents and extended family members.