James H. Hamilton ('29)-91, Houston; retired president of Barrow, Agee Chemical Laboratories and World War II veteran, Aug. 19, 1998.
Sam Meyer Feltenstein Sr. ('30, M.S. '35)-84, Meridian; retired salesman for DeWitt Chemical Co. and World War II veteran, May 30, 1998.
Creekmore B. Wright Sr. ('31)-91, Corinth; retired captain for the Mississippi Highway Patrol and member of the first MHP cadet class in 1938, April 26, 1998.
Howard Douglas McMorrough ('34)-89, Tupelo; retired 4-H Club agent for the Federal Extension Service, July 11, 1998.
Charles R. Murphy ('35)-Winter Park, Fla.; Jan. 22, 1998.
William Hunter Pratt ('35)-85, Inverness; ginner, businessman, and member of the Sunflower County Economic Development Board, June 23, 1998.
Tracie Edward Briscoe ('36)-90, Oxford; retired vocational agriculture teacher and farmer, Aug. 20, 1998.
Hugh W. Cassibry ('36, '57)-84, Ocean Springs; retired rate analyst for the Panama Canal Co., May 26, 1998.
Neil McNelis Jr. ('36)-83, Jackson; retired civil engineer for the state Highway Department.
Woodrow Wilson Hare ('37)-82, Starkville; professor emeritus and retired head of Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Science at Mississippi State and World War II veteran, May 9, 1998.
S.L. Bell Jr. ('38)-83, Water Valley; retired owner of Bell's Jewelry Store, Aug. 23, 1998.
Louis Harold Shinault ('38)-81, Holly Springs; former space program design engineer for North American Rockwell and World War II veteran, May 31, 1998.
Frank J. Taylor ('38)-82, Raymond; retired revenue tax collector, former cattleman and real estate broker, and World War II veteran, July 5, 1998.
Frances Stone Greene Early ('39)-79, Lafayette, Ind.; educator and founder of Learning Therapy Asssociates, May 11, 1998.
Charley Wilson Jones ('39, M.S. '63)-79, Brandon; retired teacher and former superintendent of education for Rankin County Public Schools, July 3, 1998.
Harold Segrest Barland ('40)-74, Hermanville; cattleman, farmer, partner in Barland Brothers Plantation, and World War II veteran.
Erwin Brice "Buddy" Elrod ('41)-79, Olathe, Kan.; retired colonel in U.S. Air Force; former base commander at Los Alamos AFB in New Mexico and Tinker AFB in Oklahoma; World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veteran; member of the undefeated 1941 Mississippi State football team; and first Mississippi State football All-American, June 13, 1998.
T.W. Hickman ('41)-80, Brookhaven; former state senator, timber dealer, member of the MSU School of Forestry Advisory Committee, and World War II veteran, June 25, 1998.
Sam Yancey Wilhite ('41)-79, West Point; a founder and executive director of the East Mississippi Council, chairman of the board of C&G Railroad, and World War II veteran, Aug. 6, 1998.
Sylvester V. Craft ('42)-79, Laurel; retired project engineer with Masonite Corp. and World War II veteran, July 11, 1998.
Carson Hulsey McWhirter ('42)-79, Birmingham, Ala.; retired CEO and chairman of the board of Universal Electric Co., July 11, 1998.
H. Dean Andrews ('43)-76, Vicksburg; retired administrator of Vicksburg Hospital and Vicksburg Clinic and World War II veteran, April 9, 1998.
Trecka R. Jones ('43)-77, Yukon, Okla.; retired engineer for Gulf Oil Co. and World War II veteran.
Felix Lane Neal ('43)-Macon, Ga.; retired teacher and coach in Georgia public schools, August 1997.
George L. Evans Sr. ('45)-75, Ridgeland; retired farmer and former county agent in Holmes and Issaquena counties, July 6, 1998.
Charles Walter Sanders ('46, M.S. '52)-79, Forest; retired county agent for Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service, May 4, 1998.
Charles G. Wells ('47)-76, Clarksdale; Blaine-Wells Motor Co. employee, former executive director of the state Motor Vehicle Commission, and former manager of the Jackson Trade Mart Building, May 14, 1998.
Edward E. Beasley ('49)-Columbia; May 28, 1998.
Charles Gaston Hill ('49)-75, New Albany; retired farmer, July 17, 1998.
Willis E. Johnson Jr. ('49)-68, Brandon; charitable gaming director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission and former owner of Phidippides Sports & Aerobics Center, July 9, 1998.
I. Tom Jones Jr. ('49)-70, Hattiesburg; retired president and CEO of Consolidated American Life Insurance Co. and former member of Mississippi House of Representatives, May 7, 1998.
Ben O. Clarke Jr. ('50)-77, Helena, Ark.; retired vice president of Production Credit Association and World War II veteran, April 19, 1998.
Robert Clifton Harper ('50)-72, Starkville; retired owner and manager of food stores in Okolona, Jackson, and Memphis, Tenn., and World War II veteran, Sept. 10, 1998.
John R. Koonce ('50)-81, Jena, La.; retired from American Natural Resources Pipeline Co. and World War II veteran, July 11, 1998.
Clarence Evans Looney ('50)-71, Clarksdale; certified public accountant and World War II veteran, July 6, 1998.
James E. Nail ('50)-78, Bellefontaine; retired county extension agent and World War II veteran, August 1998.
Clifford Fabian O'Connor ('50)-72, Gulfport; retired from General Telephone Co. in Stamford, Conn., and World War II veteran, May 3, 1998.
Fred D. Rogers ('50)-72, Nettleton; retired Nettleton postmaster and World War II veteran, June 17, 1998.
Arthur David Seale Jr. ('50. M.S. '51)-75, Starkville; retired associate director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and World War II veteran, June 20, 1998.
Thomas E. Tate ('50)-73, Brandon; retired real estate appraiser and World War II veteran, April 28, 1998.
Fred Anderson Conlee ('51)-68, Monroe, La.; director of pipeline services for R-S-H Engineering Inc., June 20, 1998.
Bluford L. Moor Sr. ('51)-90, Euless, Texas; retired principal and Oktibbeha County superintendent of education, 1940-1960, July 3, 1998.
Dan Myers Sr. ('51)-72, Brandon; retired employee of Thiokol Chemical and Aztec Industries, May 10, 1998.
Demetrius T. Paris ('51)-67, Atlanta, Ga.; professor and director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech University, Aug. 29, 1998.
T.L. Reed III ('51)-68, Belzoni; catfish industry pioneer, wildlife conservationist, and owner of Silver Creek Plantation and Reed Farming Co., May 29, 1998.
Clifford Daniel Riley ('51)-72, Bessemer, Ala.; retired engineer for U.S. Steel Corp., retired math and mechanics instructor at Bessemer State Technical College, and World War II veteran, May 2, 1998.
Allen Richard Turner ('51)-72, Jackson; retired dairy chemist with U.S. Department of Agriculture and World War II veteran, May 21, 1998.
Aubrey G. Gordon ('52)-Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 1, 1998.
Harry N. Murphy ('52)-84, Birmingham, Ala.; retired administrative vice president of Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Fla., and World War II veteran, Feb. 16, 1998.
Robert Sims ('52)-78, Iuka; retired teacher and basketball coach at Burnsville High School and former Tishomingo County chancery clerk, June 18, 1998.
Theodore H. Turner ('52)-67, Memphis, Tenn.; owner of Morgan & Turner Contractors, August 1998.
Wentz A. Batson Sr. ('53)-73, Perkinston; founder of Batson Growers Wholesale bulb company, former horticulture teacher at Gulf Coast Community College, and World War II veteran, June 20, 1998.
Donald Nelson Howell ('53)-68, Starkville; retired analytical chemist at Mississippi State, June 11, 1998.
Thomas Rudolph Mayes ('54)-66, Decatur; retired English teacher at East Central Community College, Aug. 13, 1998.
Samuel David Dantzler ('55)-65, Jonesboro, Ark.; retired director of product engineering for Singer Furniture Co. and Korean War veteran, Dec. 18, 1998.
John Gilbert Edwards ('56)-66, Ethel; retired district manager for Hyster Forklift Co. and Korean War veteran.
Candler Fay Storment ('56)-69, Jackson; retired schoolteacher, farmer, and Korean War veteran.
Charles Arnett ('57)-71, Louisville; retired Air Force chaplain and Methodist minister.
Robert L. Cox ('57)-83, Vicksburg; retired machinist and mechanical engineer with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, and World War II veteran, April 15, 1998.
Olen Lavane Newell ('57, M.S. '59)-69, Decatur; retired director of vocational-technical instruction at East Central Community College and Korean War veteran, May 18, 1998.
Charles Franklin Wood Jr. ('57)-69, Huntsville, Ala.; retired research and design engineer at Redstone Arsenal and Korean War veteran, July 24, 1998.
William Lamar Hussey ('58)-61, Andrews Chapel Community; owner of Hussey Sod Farm, July 15, 1998.
James Burdette Sykes Jr. ('58)-62, Indianola; business owner, August 1998.
Phillip Marlyn Yarbrough ('58)-62, Houston; owner of Associated Cost Control and a former director of the Bank of Mantee, August 1998.
Herbert Holt Coleman Sr. ('60)-61, Phoenix, Ariz.; retired senior vice president for Trustmark National Bank, May 27, 1998.
Richard E. Buckley ('61)-62, Biloxi; medical doctor and former neurological surgery consultant to U.S. Air Force and NASA, July 21, 1998.
Billy W. Denmark ('62)-58, Poplarville; retired county agent, July 1, 1998.
William Ralph Gore ('62)-64, Pickens, Ala.; industrial engineer for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, July 11, 1998.
Charles Curtis Armstrong ('63, M.Ed. '74)-65, Red Bay, Ala.; teacher and coach in the Franklin County (Ala.) School System and Korean War veteran, July 20, 1998.
Maury B. Gunter ('65)-56, Newton; county engineer for Newton and Scott counties, April 20, 1998.
Milburn Gardner III ('66, M.S. '67)-54, Starkville; acting director of Human Resources Management at Mississippi State, July 27, 1998.
Dorman Walls ('66)-54, Maben; retired comptroller at Mississippi State, May 14, 1998.
Barry Lee Milling ('67)-54, Eufaula, Ala.; former manager with Ceco Building Systems and with American Buildings Co.
John Luther Epting Jr. ('68)-52, Clinton; offshore cook and former supervisor for Sonoco Offshore Catering Co., May 11, 1998.
Thomas A. Whitehead ('68)-53, Coahoma; retired employee of Farmer's Home Administration, May 13, 1998.
Donald J. Barras ('70)-66, Glenwood, Ala.; retired biology professor at Troy State University, April 3, 1998.
Gustav Adolph Kuhnert ('72)-87, Vicksburg; former teacher at Cooper High School and Porters Chapel Academy, retired chief warrant officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, and World War II veteran, Aug. 18, 1998.
Florence McClelland Brown ('74, M.Ed. '79)-44, Amory; director of special education for the Amory Public School System, June 8, 1998.
Morris Richie Blocker ('76)-44, Benoit; farmer.
Lennor Lynn Gresham Calhoun ('77)-49, Pasadena, Calif.; technical group supervisor at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and former Mississippi State professor, June 1, 1998.
Robert Winfred Dawson ('78)-40, Booneville; U.S. Marine Corps major, July 1, 1998.
James O. Ainsworth ('81)-40, Brandon; director of landscape services at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, Aug. 23, 1998.
Danny Dorcy Pinkerton ('81)-50, Maben; retired from the Dairy Science Department at Mississippi State, April 24, 1998.
William M. Ames Jr. (attended)-72, Aberdeen; retired from U.S. Army and World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veteran, April 8, 1998.
William J. Boone Jr. (attended)-75, Leland; retired owner of Boone Funeral Home and World War II veteran.
W.L. Caver Jr. (attended)-75, Booneville; owner of Caver Grain Elevator and World War II veteran, May 4, 1998.
Grady L. Draper (attended)-85, Greenville; retired office manager for Bern Prewitt Flying Service and World War II veteran, April 29, 1998.
Glen Harris Jr. (attended)-66, Richmond; retired dairy farmer and a former member of the board of directors of the Tombigbee Electric Power Association, May 15, 1998.
Grace Beatrice Ford Johnson (attended)-72, Starkville; retired educator, May 14, 1998.
Carl Murdock Kelly Jr. (attended)-77, Greenwood; retired real estate and insurance agent and World War II veteran, August 1998.
Lee Ashley Frederick (student)-20, Smithville; sophomore majoring in animal science, April 25, 1998.
Matthew Bryan Freeman (student)-20, Hattiesburg; chemical engineering student and member of the Cheerleading Squad at Mississippi State, July 26, 1998.
William Thomas West Jr. (former employee)-77, Starkville; retired professor, band director, and head of the Department of Music Education at Mississippi State, May 22, 1998.
H.F. McCarty Jr. (friend)-76, Magee; founder of McCarty Farms, the 14th largest poultry firm in the U.S., philanthropist, and World War II veteran, June 6, 1998.
W.K. McWilliams Jr. (friend)-Covington, La.; July 17, 1998.
