Allan Kirkpatrick Troxler — graphic artist, mask-puppet-and-banner maker, violinist, country dance teacher, community activist, and devoted friend — died at age 78 at Brookdale Memory Care in Chapel Hill on October 26, 2025.
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Mary Thalmyer Wittman
Mama Wittman, as she was known by her family, was a wonderful baker and cook in the German style, and also an accomplished gardener.
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Bob and Gloria
Robert (Bob) Wittman, son of Carl and Mary (Thalmyer) Wittman was Walter’s younger brother.
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Carl Wittman, Sr. 1877-1950
Carl Wittman was born in Germany and came to the U.S. at the age of 14. From 1900-1910 he mined gold in Alaska, traversing the length of the Klondike three times on foot and dog sled.
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Friendship with Ad Reinhardt
Walt Wittman was a supporter of the arts, especially those with leftist expressions. He was close to Ad Reinhardt, an artist and cartoonist known for his incisive cartoons of current event before and leading up the U.S. joining WWII.
Carl was six years older than his cousin Peg but there was a mutual admiration and bond, complicated by the great geographical distance between them.
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Allan Troxler
Allan, with Carl, and other gay men started RFD a publication for gay men living in the country.
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An Interracial Movement of the Poor?
This 1963 mimeographed article was written by Carl Wittman and Tom Hayden based on observations of their work in poor neighborhoods in Newark, NJ organizing around issues of housing, jobs, and discrimination.
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The Gay Manifesto
The Gay Manifesto, was, and remains, a pioneering document for the gay movement. Written shortly before the Stonewall Uprising in NYC in June of 1969, it laid out the revolutionary potential of the movement to challenge the power structure.
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Carl Wittman, Organizer
Carl Wittman, son of Jeanette Freeman Wittman and Walter Wittman, lived the life of an organizer and he was pivotal in a number of movements.