WILLIAM STRATHMANN

Dr. William Danford Strathmann  (Age 79)  
Died from cancer at 10 a.m. on Sunday, February 11, 2018 while overlooking Pleasant Lake at his home in Casco, Maine with loved ones by his side. He leaves behind his wife of 12 years, Randi Finger Strathmann, his brother, Richard (Megumi) Strathmann, his two sons from his first wife, Bill (Katita) Strathmann, Joe (Shannon) Strathmann, his five grandchildren, Cali, Kate, Riley, Rowan, and John Strathmann and many extended family members and dear friends. He is pre-deceased by Leslie Micali Strathmann his first wife of 32 years and his parents, Ernest and Cynthia Strathmann. Born in Pomona, raised in Claremont, California, he attended The Webb School before graduating from Pomona College in 1960. He went on to Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts where he met Leslie. They married in 1963. After graduating medical school in 1964 and completing his training in the Northeast, Wil served in the United States Air Force stationed in El Paso, Texas. With two young boys, the family moved to the Washington, District of Columbia area in 1970 where Wil started his private practice as a psychiatrist. He completed his psychoanalytic training in 1980 and joined the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1983. Appointed Associate Teaching Analyst in 1995 and Teaching Analyst in 1999, he served as Co-Director of the BW Institute's Adult Psychotherapy Program for several years and was added to the BW Institute's Emeritus faculty in 2011. An exceptionally devoted father and husband, he lived in Chevy Chase, MD and raised his boys with Leslie until her passing from her own battle with cancer in 1996.Wil and his second wife, Randi, met through their common field and commitment to mental health, dated, and lived together until they married in 2005. With Randi's encouragement, they bought a house in Maine together where Wil retired in 2008 to begin his dream of living in a place with such natural beauty. They shared over 20 years together. His love of nature and the outdoors began in childhood and continued throughout his life. He enjoyed few things more than "being outdoors, in motion under his own power." Known for this love of nature, his youthful spirit, bright-eyed smile, commitment to family, intellect, and encyclopedic memory (of anatomy, stories, limericks, literature, and lyrics), he will be dearly missed. Two memorial services will be planned for Spring, one in Washington, District of Columbia, another in Casco, Maine, followed by private internment of his ashes. Donations in Wil's name will be accepted in the Spring.