Deaths
- March - Sparkplug's wife Susan (Buster and Spike's mother) dies in a car crash.
Events
- April - "A Slow Recovery" - Four weeks after the funeral of Sparkplug's wife, Susan, the Witwicky house falls into neglect with an 11-year-old Spike having to tend to both his grieving father and his shell-shocked little brother. Desperate and hungry, Spike takes Buster and heads to his aunt and uncle's house for a hot meal.
Susan Witwicky
