My law school advisor died this month and I just found out. I missed the funeral, which was 12/15. I would have liked to have gone to it, despite how I feel about that godforsaken school. He was one of the few people there that really made me feel like a human being and who treated me with respect and dignity when things were at their worst. I only spent one year there, but he had an impact on me – he reminded me of some of the goodness left in people and I'm sorry to hear of this sad news.
I’m sorry for this loss. I have some sense of what it’s like to lose someone like this, my undergraduate mentor died on his regular 8 mile cycle ride home about 8 years after I left college. The college didn’t tell us and I just found out on the grapevine about 9 months later, of course having missed the funeral, memorial etc. I felt a horrible sense of loss.
I am sorry. It’s hard when someone dies like that, and you don’t find out about it until afterwards.