Dr. Susan Thomson Strahan, a retired psychiatrist and mental health advocate who served on the state’s Board of Physician Quality Assurance, died of heart disease Dec. 28 at her Tuscany-Canterbury home. She was 72.
Dr. Fannie Gaston-Johansson, a retired Johns Hopkins nursing professor who created a pain-measurement device and studied the aftereffects of breast cancer treatment in Black women, died Jan. 7 at her Mount Washington home. She was 84.
Arthur H. “Art” Landerman Jr., an illustrator who founded Art Landerman Art and a musician, died Dec. 18 at Shock Trauma after a car accident near his Sykesville home. He was 70.
James I. Houck, former managing editor of The Baltimore Sun who later became managing editor of the Times-Delta/Advance Register in California’s Central Valley, died Dec. 13 from heart failure at Westmark Care Center in Visalia, California. The former Ellicott City resident was 81.
Robert C. Goldman, who as the founder of the Chesapeake Design Group Inc. brought sleek design and cutting-edge technology to his practice, died Dec. 20 at his Homeland residence. He was 70.