Ross Shaub “Buzz” McConnell

A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at YaPoAh Terrace in Eugene for Ross Shaub “Buzz” McConnell of Eugene, who died Jan. 10 of age-related causes. He was 85.

He was born May 10, 1926, in Princeton, N.J., to Harry and Maude Shaub McConnell. He married Mary Elizabeth Fair in December 1951. She died in 1999. He married Laura Lee Sipe on Sept. 30, 2005.

He graduated from Bucknell University, University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Dickenson Law School. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1945. He was a medical doctor and developed programs for those with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Robert of Alameda, Calif., Harry of Robina Town Centre, Queensland, Australia, and John of Eugene; a daughter, Mary McConnell of Seattle; a sibling, Marian Pfeil of Montoursville, Pa.; two stepdaughters in Washington; one stepson in Oregon; 13 grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren. A son, Thomas Edward McConnell, died previously.

Arrangements by Andreason’s Cremation & Burial Service in Springfield. In lieu of flowers, remembrances to the Eugene Mission.

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