Retired Professor of Folk Studies William Lynwood Montell died on December 21.
In Memoriam
Joy Fraser died on December 17, 2023 in St John’s.
Gillian Bennett, scholar of contemporary legends, belief, ghost lore, and editor of Folklore from 1994-2002, died on December 13.
Gwen Meister, Folklorist and Director of Nebraska Folklife, died October 16, 2023.
Former New Mexico state folklorist, DJ, musician, and radio host, Claude Stephenson, died from natural causes on August 29, 2023.
Ronald L. Baker died June 1 in Indianapolis at the age of 85.
AFS Fellow and Professor of Folklore & Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Dan Ben-Amos died on March 26, 2023.
Folklorist Mickey Weems, who is facing terminal cancer, has decided to die with medical assistance on March 19, 2023. Friends and colleagues are invited to share memories, reflections, and photographs with Mickey now on his Facebook page.
Vivian Williams, fiddler, composer, recording artist, and writer, died on January 6, 2023 at the age of 84. She had been suffering with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), aka Lou Gehrig’s disease. Beginning as early as 1962, Vivian Williams, working with her late
Birgit Hannele Wilson, wife of folklorist William A (Bert) Wilson, died January 11, 2023.