During the past year, the public transit community said goodbye to industry leaders, members of the APTA Hall of Fame, the first executive director of APTA, and a senator who was a longtime friend of the industry.

Here is how they were remembered in the pages of Passenger Transport, in chronological order of their deaths.

Raymond V. Lanman, 68, vice president, corporate development, for Herzog Transit Services in St. Joseph, MO, died Dec. 4, 2012.

Philip Anderson, 64, a member of the Denver Regional Transportation District Board of Directors from 1993-97, died Dec. 20, 2012.

Hiram Walker, 75, a 33-year employee of FTA and its predecessor, the Urban Mass Transit Administration (UMTA), died Jan. 6. Walker joined UMTA in 1971 and retired from FTA in 2005.

Ann Linnertz, FTA administrator for administration since 2006, died Jan. 26. She began her career at DOT in 1980 as a presidential management intern at FHWA.

Julian Burke, 85, chief executive officer of Los Angeles Metro from 1997 to 2001, died March 30.

Laurrie Brown, 65, a 40-year public transportation professional who worked since 2008 as director of operations for the San Joaquin Regional Transit District, Stockton, CA, died May 4. Brown joined the agency in 2005 as director of transportation and a member of the executive team.

B.R. (Bill) Stokes, 89, first executive director of APTA and a former general manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, died May 15. Stokes headed APTA from its founding in 1974 to 1980, and was inducted into the APTA Hall of Fame in 1996.

John Stokowski, 59, director of program development for the Greater Peoria Mass Transit District, Peoria, IL, died May 23.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), 89, a longtime advocate for public trans­portation, died June 3. At the time of his death, Lautenberg chaired the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security. Prior to interment at Arlington National Cemetery, the senator’s body was placed on an Amtrak train at the New Jersey Transit Corporation commuter rail station that bears his name in Secaucus, NJ.

Jean-Claude Ziv, 63, a public transit researcher and writer, died May 27. Ziv was project manager, development, for Veolia Transport in Paris at the time of his death.

Susan Kupferman, 54, senior advisor to the chairman of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, died June 26.

Michael Winter, a disability advocate since the 1960s and longtime DOT employee, died July 11.

Richard Dahl, 55, general manager of the North County Transit District’s Sprinter rail operation for Veolia Transportation in Escondido, CA, died July 15.

Wayne Gilles, 48, a ­public transit safety and security expert with CH2M HILL in Los Angeles, died June 25.

Simon Bartlett, 49, a public transit system engineering expert who worked for CH2M HILL in New Jersey, died June 28.

Patrick McMahan, 83, one of the founders of Community Transit, ­Snohomish County, WA, died Aug. 23.

Dennis D. Louwerse, 68, 30-year executive director and chief executive officer of the Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority, Reading, PA, died Sept. 5.

Col. Erland A. Tillman, 101, a member of the APTA Hall of Fame who began a 28-year career in public transportation engineering following his retirement from the U.S. Army, died Sept. 6.

Joseph Frank Garbacz, 97, former deputy chief of design and construction with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, died Sept. 23.

Ronald Kirby, 69, director of transportation planning with the Metropolitan ­Washington Council of Governments, died Nov. 11.