Obituaries

James N. Roney Sr. ('26, M.S. '27) -- 90, Phoenix, Ariz., retired University of Arizona extension entomologist and Boy Scouts of America volunteer, Aug. 7, 1994.

Roy R. Biggers ('27) -- 89, Corinth, retired teacher and coach at Corinth High School, businessman, and life secretary of Mississippi State's Class of 1927, Sept. 29, 1994.

Mose C. Cooper ('27) -- Austell, Ga., retired general manager of Wells Dairies Co-op in Columbus, Ga.

John S. Mills ('28) -- 88, Macon, retired county agent and farm manager, Jan. 10, 1995.

John Robert Boyd Jr. ('30) -- 87, Tallahassee, Fla., retired industrial fire insurance engineer, July 31, 1994.

Chester Norwood Dabbs ('30) -- 90, Clarksdale, retired seed buyer for Planters Manufacturing Co. and retired teacher and coach, Jan. 10, 1995.

Sam T. Scott ('30) -- 84, Ridgeland, retired owner of Scott Insurance Agency and farmer, Jan. 17, 1995.

Reed Augustus Hogue ('31) -- 86, Winterville, retired cattle farmer, Dec. 12, 1994.

James B. Majure ('31, M.S. '32) -- Forest, Feb. 13, 1994.

George F. Warren Sr. ('31) -- 87, Vicksburg, retired salesman for Jewel Electric Co., Dec. 27, 1994.

William Van Davis ('32) -- 85, Kosciusko, retired merchant and World War II veteran, Dec. 28, 1994.

Charles Allen Johnson Jr. ('32) -- 82, Jackson, retired teacher and former superintendent for Canton and Starkville public schools, Oct. 23, 1994.

Charles David Luckett ('32) -- 85, Vicksburg, retired government worker and World War II veteran, Dec. 6, 1994.

Middleton R. Merrell ('32) -- 83, Hattiesburg, former teacher and coach, retired counselor with the Vocational Rehabilitation Division of the state Department of Education, and World War II veteran, Nov. 1, 1994.

Linus B. Martin Sr. ('33) -- 86, New Augusta, tree farmer, retired Army lieutenant colonel, and former sheriff of Perry County, Nov. 6, 1994.

Ira H. Stuckey ('33) -- Vicksburg, retired engineer for Mississippi Power and Light Co.

George C. Cortright ('34) -- Rolling Fork, agriculturist, March 11, 1994.

James Fant Slaughter ('34) -- 83, Silver City, retired farmer and civic leader, Oct. 3, 1994.

Hurst L. Webb ('34) -- 82, Florence, retired Soil Conservation Service engineer and dairy farmer, Aug. 27, 1994.

Victor L. Ayres ('35) -- 80, Leland, president of Ayres Delta Implement Co. and World War II veteran, Sept. 22, 1994.

Lamar A. Conerly Sr. ('37) -- 79, Laurel, retired civil engineer and a director of the Pat Harrison Waterway District, Aug. 21, 1994.

Loys A. “Frenchie” Mollere ('37) -- Hammond, La., retired Army lieutenant colonel, former owner and operator of Mollere's Air Cooled Motors, and World War II veteran, Oct. 9, 1994.

Orville Patton Stone ('37) -- 79, Ripley, physician and past president of North Mississippi Medical Society, Sept. 26, 1994.

Joe M. Griffin ('38) -- 78, Meridian, retired owner of Forest Lumber Co. and World War II veteran, Aug. 2, 1994.

Luther Myles Hamilton Jr. ('38) -- 81, Panama City, Fla., retired engineer at the Naval Coastal Systems Center and World War II veteran, Jan. 19, 1994.

Bascome L. Neal ('38) -- Hampton, Va., retired Air Force colonel, April 9, 1994.

T. Graham Wells Jr. ('38) -- 78, Chattanooga, Tenn., retired engineer and major general in U.S. Army, Jan. 22, 1995.

Thomas Hiram Dalehite ('39) -- 76, Shalimar, Fla., former assistant deputy secretary of the Air Force for research and development, former chief scientist at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and World War II veteran, Dec. 19, 1994.

Albert R. King ('40) -- 74, Greenwood, retired farmer, Oct. 28, 1994.

Homer C. Morgan ('40) -- Meridian, retired manager for Gulf Oil Co., March 17, 1994.

Curtis H. Adams ('41, Ph.D. '65) -- 77, Huntsville, Ala., professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, Jan. 11, 1995.

Frank W. Alexander ('41) -- 74, Long Beach, retired Second District Circuit Court judge and former faculty member at the Mississippi College School of Law, Sept. 25, 1994.

James K. Blocker ('41) -- 74, Jackson, retired United States Department of Agriculture district manager and World War II veteran, Oct. 27, 1993.

Billie M. Carson ('41) -- Taylorsville, retired, Oct. 15, 1994.

James Judson Holman ('41) -- 74, Greenwood, retired civil engineer with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and World War II veteran, Oct. 13, 1994.

George H. Early ('42) -- 74, Lafayette, Ind., Presbyterian minister, retired professor at Indiana State University, and World War II veteran, June 1, 1994.

Edward Eugene Nixon Jr. ('42) -- 74, Yazoo City, retired farmer and World War II veteran, Oct. 2, 1994.

Daisy Evelyn Lewis Pace ('42) -- 73, Forest, retired associate editor of Morton Pelahatchie Advertiser in Morton, Sept. 26, 1994.

Owen R. Worley ('42) -- Atlanta, Ga., retired Coca Cola Co. employee, Aug. 1, 1994.

Gus Davis Berryhill ('43) -- 73, Dublin, farmer and ginner and World War II veteran, Aug. 16, 1994.

Donald B. Crawley ('43) -- Houston, Texas, retired from cost and expense control department with Texaco, Feb. 26, 1994.

O.C. Hill ('43, '48) -- Hattiesburg, retired engineer for Mississippi Power Co., July 6, 1994.

Nathan Levy Jr. ('43) -- 70, West Hartford, Conn., University of Connecticut School of Law professor emeritus and World War II veteran, May 19, 1994.

C.H. McMillan ('47) -- 76, Kosciusko, former editor and World War II verteran, Nov. 5, 1994.

George P. Hendrick ('48) -- 72, Phoenix, Md., former Mississippi state trooper and World War II veteran, Sept. 4, 1994.

Edward G. Hosemann ('48) -- 72, Jackson, retired claims agent for Illinois Central Railroad.

James A. Rube ('48) -- Roseland, Va., retired accountant and administrator for United Warehouse, Feb. 15, 1994.

Clifton S. Wade ('49) -- 75, Sand Hill, retired school administrator, Sept. 5, 1994.

John R. Berry ('50) -- Bessemer, Ala., retired from Glidden Paint Co., May 31, 1994.

Jack C. Calk Jr. ('50) -- Niceville, Fla., retired service manager, May 3, 1994.

William J. Houston ('50) -- Oakland, farmer, Jan. 3, 1995.

S. Frank Serio ('50) -- 77, Natchez, realtor, World War II veteran, and volunteer tax aide for senior citizens of Natchez, Nov. 9, 1994.

James Leroy Spencer ('50, M.S. '55) -- 76, Hernando, retired teacher, hospital administrator, and World War II veteran, Aug. 25, 1994.

George Wilson Yeates ('50) -- 67, Clinton, retired Soil Conservation Service agronomist and World War II veteran, Sept. 21, 1994.

Lela T. Clark ('51) -- 90, Iuka, retired teacher, Aug. 9, 1994.

Miller B. Harmon ('51) -- 69, Butler, Ala., retired engineer with James River Paper Co., Dec. 24, 1994.

Duval Pierce Heflin ('51) -- 66, Laurel, manufacturing engineer with Howard Industries and former teacher and coach, Jan. 5, 1995.

Eula Grace Coon Adams ('52) -- 65, Clinton, retired elementary principal at McCluer Academy, Jan. 5, 1995.

Eathen L. Edwards ('52) -- 71, Tupelo, retired area conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service and World War II veteran, June 16, 1994.

James C. Simpson Sr. ('52) -- 64, Pass Christian, former member of state House of Representatives, Nov. 8, 1994.

Annie M. Patterson-Terrebonne ('53) -- Hitchcock, Texas, senior medical technologist-hematology at University of Texas Medical Branch, Nov. 17, 1994.

John B. McKee Jr. ('54) -- 62, Friars Point, farmer, businessman, and founding president of the Mississippi State University Bulldog Club, Dec. 15, 1994.

Joe W. Griffith ('55) -- 65, Philadelphia, retired vice president of Citizens Bank, Sept. 7, 1994.

James E. Ashley ('58) -- 58, Diamondhead, health-care consultant with Baxter Laboratories, Oct. 26, 1994.

Alfred Eugene Lee ('58) -- 57, Oxford, physician and adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law, Oct. 15, 1994.

Douglas Lee Love Sr. ('58, M.S. '62) -- 58, Houston, retired teacher,

Nov. 19, 1994.

Georgia P. Harmond Smith ('59) -- 82, Columbus, retired student counselor and teacher, Nov. 20, 1994.

George M. Fisackerly ('61) -- 59, Vicksburg, retired engineer with Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Oct. 8, 1994.

Frank B. Janous Jr. ('61, M.S. '63) -- 55, Kosciusko, agency manager for Attala County Farm Bureau, Dec. 7, 1994.

Thomas Wayne West ('61) -- 57, Shannon, former teacher and coach, Oct. 22, 1994.

James Avery Stone ('64) -- 53, West Point, transportation manager for Canal Woods in Aberdeen, Oct. 19, 1994.

Marlowe R. Park III ('68, M.S. '72) -- 49, Ridgeland, realtor, Nov. 29, 1994.

Clarence Tyler Jr. ('68) -- 49, Frankfort, Ky., engineer for Frankfort Plastics, Nov. 27, 1994.

Robert Earl Posey ('69) -- 47, Collins, insurance sales representative, Oct. 12, 1994.

John D. Male ('72) -- Lititz, Pa.,

buyer/planner for Warner Lambert Co., Aug. 12, 1994.

Frank F. Nowzari ('72) -- 61, Alexandria, Va., retired sales manager and Air Force veteran, Nov. 2, 1994.

Maeola Little Turner ('75, '77) -- Meridian, retired teacher and community activist, Nov. 17, 1994.

Mary Frances Webber Smith ('77) -- 46, Woodstock, Ga., media specialist for Woodstock Elementary School, Sept. 23, 1994.

Sue Wallace ('78) -- 67, Longview, retired teacher, Nov. 5, 1994.

David Montcell Frederick ('80) -- 41, Charleston, security guard, Jan. 4, 1995.

Susan Burgin Rutledge ('80) -- 41, Whynot, teacher at Carver Middle School in Meridian, Nov. 8, 1994.

Elizabeth Griffin Jones ('83) -- 61, Jackson, professor of English at Millsaps College and owner of Communication Consultants Co., Oct. 12, 1994.

Julia Higgins Carskadon ('94) -- 48, River Forest, Ill., chair and professor of the Early Childhood Education Department at the University of Texas Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, Dec. 9, 1994.

Mark Ivan Gilbert ('94) -- 26, Starkville, Social Science Research Center employee at Mississippi State, Jan. 16, 1995.

Judy Price Neal ('94) -- 39, Columbus, teacher at Lamar County (Ala.) Elementary School, Nov. 28, 1994.

Alicia M. Edge (student) -- 22, Tupelo, senior in mechanical engineering at Mississippi State, valedictorian of the Class of 1990 at Shannon High School, and honor graduate of Itawamba Community College, Oct. 6, 1994.

Sonya Danette Lewis (student) -- 23, Little Rock, Ark., elementary education student at Meridian Campus and honor graduate of Beulah Hubbard High School and East Central Community College, Oct. 17, 1994.

E.H. Bishop (attended) -- 88, Easley, S.C., retired credit manager, Jan. 10, 1995.

Thomas F. Burrow (attended) -- 91, Prentiss, retired farmer and World War II veteran, Dec. 31, 1994.

Kathy Lunceford Caviness (attended) -- 34, Calhoun City, Aug. 26, 1994.

Ralph Lee Jennings Jr. (attended) -- 71, Greenville, retired banker and World War II veteran, Dec. 14, 1994.

Irvin Rubenstein (attended) -- 71, Cleveland, retired merchant and World War II veteran, Dec. 11, 1994.

James Percy Thaxton (attended) -- 65, Crystal Springs, retired electrical foreman for Georgia Pacific Corp. and World War II veteran, Jan. 9, 1995.

Roy Miller Tucker Sr. (attended) -- 75, Hamilton, former Monroe County supervisor, farmer, and World War II veteran, Dec. 28, 1994.

Lucy Ellis Walker (attended) -- 96, Mantee, retired teacher, Aug. 17, 1994.

Richard Martin Whitehead (attended) -- 35, Stone Mountain, Ga., loan officer for Stone Mountain Mortgage Co.

Caroline B. Anderson (former employee) -- 59, Starkville, retired state 4-H youth development specialist with Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service, Aug. 12, 1994.

Mildred M. Wofford (employee) -- Starkville, administrative secretary for MAFES administration at Mississippi State, Dec. 20, 1994.

Draxie Dewease (friend) -- 66, Sand Hill, retired engineer assistant with South Central Bell, Sept. 12, 1994.

Mrs. C.T. (Earline) Ramzy (friend) -- Carthage, Jan. 23, 1995.