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Malcolm R. Pfunder

Washington, District of Columbia

1944 - 2023

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October 11, 2023
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Washington, District of Columbia
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Pfunder Malcolm R. Pfunder Malcolm R. Pfunder died on October 11, 2023 at his home in Kensington, Maryland. He had Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia. Sandy, as he was known to his family and friends, was born in 1944 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Malcolm G. Pfunder and Helen Wash...

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I am very sorry for his passing. I send my love to his family. I knew him from Turkey. He lived in my village when I was not yet born. He came later and we met. I don't know if his family remembers us. I will add a photo here I am the granddaughter of the Muhtar. (second photo, pink outfit baby ) Love from the Village in the Meadows.

Sandy was a great colleague and an amazing person. He was unfailingly kind and caring. He was the foremost authority in his field, and yet always humble and willing to take the time to explain the nuances to a more junior lawyer.

With fond memories of Sandy and his sons at Green Acres School, I send my love and sympathy to the family, Flo Rosenblum, Ruth Phang's Assistant in GAS Library

We met in Portland in June of 1965 where we gathered to begin to learn to speak Turkish. It was total immersion--the teachers explained nothing, would speak no English but spoke to us as if we were Turkish infants. This drove Sandy and some others crazy--his soon-to-become-a-lawyer's brain simply had to have things logically explained. One way and another, though, Sandy picked up Turkish better than most of us and had a great experience there. He and Allen lived fairly close to my village ...