Peter Franz, ’59 DVM, Edina, Minn., died on Oct. 23, 2022. He practiced veterinary medicine in Austin, Minn., focusing on large animals. An illness forced him to stop practicing and the family relocated to Edina where he worked for International Multifoods, Zinpro, and subsequently started Tech-Mix. He is survived by his wife, Marion; four children; four grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. 

Douglas LeMay, ’87 DVM, Roseville, Minn., died on Oct. 3, 2022, at age 62. LeMay owned Family Animal Hospital in Fridley, MN for 20 years. He was also a certified small animal hospice provider with his own home visit practice, Pet Hospice MN. Lemay also spent nearly 20 years as a volunteer firefighter for Falcon Heights, Minn. He is survived by his wife, Lisa; three sons; his mother; two brothers; and aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews. 

Tamara Cherney, ’83 DVM, Madison, Wis., died on Jan. 15, 2023, at age 69. Cherney worked as a large animal veterinarian, caring for horses and farm animals. In 1998, she began her long-time position providing expert care as a small animal veterinarian at the Middleton Veterinary Hospital in Middleton, Wis. Cherney is survived by her husband, Alan; two sisters; three nieces; two nephews; her stepdaughter; and two stepsons.

Gerald F. Brancich, ‘66 DVM, Winona, Minn., died Nov. 14, 2022, at age 80. Brancich joined Blue Cross Small Animal hospital in Minneapolis after graduation. He served overseas in the U.S. Air Force as a senior veterinary medical officer in Turkey. After finishing his assignment overseas and spending a year in Arizona, He opened the Itasca Pet Hospital in Grand Rapids, Minn., in 1970. He ran the practice until 1984 when he moved to Winona, Minn, to take a job with the USDA. Brancich is survived by his wife, Alice; four children; four grandchildren; and a sister. 

George Paul Sedgwick, ‘67 DVM, Stewartville, Minn., died Dec. 4, 2022, at age 83. Sedgwick practiced veterinary medicine in Stewartville for 46 years before retiring. He is survived by his wife, Jean; two daughters; two granddaughters; his brother; two sisters; his brother-in-law; two nieces; and 10 nephews.

Richard "Dick" Faivre, ’64 DVM, Eitzen, Minn., died Jan. 10, 2023, at age 85. Faivre followed in the footsteps of his maternal grandfather who was a veterinarian. After accepting a position in Caledonia, Minn., where he practiced for 15 years, he owned and operated his own large animal veterinary practice in the Caledonia/Eitzen area for 35 years. He retired in 2016. Faivre is survived by his four daughters, six grandchildren, his sister, and one nephew.

Kenneth Gustav Krueger ’64 DVM, Ripon, Calif., died Jan. 1, 2023, at age 86. Krueger served in the U.S. Army in Berlin before receiving his bachelor’s and DVM at the University of Minnesota. For more than 40 years, he ran Yosemite Veterinarian, a practice in Modesto. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; children, Christopher and Jill; daughter-in-law, Laura; his grandchildren; and his sisters.

Dean Peterson, ’74 DVM, Ham Lake, Minn., died in August 2022.

Donald Boyd French, ’53 DVM, Chatfield, Minn., died on Sept. 3, 2022, at 93. French founded Chosen Valley Vet Clinic in 1955 in Chatfield. The practice operates to this day, though French retired from being on in 1989. He continued to treat horses up until 1996. He and his wife, Isabel, also generously created the Dr. Don and Isy French Large Animal Medicine Fund to provide equipment upgrades, clinical outreach, and research to the UMN College of Veterinary Medicine. He is survived by two sons and one daughter, four grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, his sister, his great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.