A resident of Starkville and Bainbridge, Ga., Perkins also had been a wildlife biologist for International Paper Co. and was a former assistant director of the Louisiana Game and Fish Commission. He received a Ph.D. in botany at Mississippi State in 1973, and held bachelor's and master's degrees from Louisiana State University.
He belonged to many professional wildlife organizations and published articles in numerous research publications. He received the Clarence Watson Award as the top-ranking wildlife biologist in the Southeast.
Perkins was a World War II Marine Corps veteran. His record for the largest Kentucky smallmouth bass ever caught in Louisiana still stands.
Guy H. Bumpas Jr. ('24)--Covington, La., retired United Gas Corp. employee, July 22, 1993.
Cecil Glen "Lefty" Bolton ('26)--89, Greenville, retired baseball player (Cleveland Indians, 1928; New Orleans Pelicans; Western League in Denver) and funeral home director, Aug. 25, 1993.
James M. McReynolds ('26)--Starkville, retired Federal Land Bank appraiser and life secretary of the Class of 1926, Aug. 12, 1993.
W.E. Nance ('26)--Dallas, Texas, retired purchasing director for Bell South Telephone.
Edward Devane Russell ('26)--90, Edinburg, retired cattleman and farmer, April 11, 1993.
Fred Littleton McNatt ('27)--Clemson, S.C., retired agronomist for Allied Chemical Co., April 9, 1993.
Warren C. Goolsby ('29)--87, Covington, La., retired U.S. Department of Agriculture employee, Sept. 13, 1993.
C.S. "Bill" Norton ('30)--86, Philadelphia, retired Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service agent and Citizens Bank of Philadelphia employee, Nov. 6, 1993.
Henry Grady Guest Sr. ('31)--84, Houston, Texas, retired geologist, June 14, 1993.
William Carson Massey ('31)--90, Starkville, retired Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service agricultural engineer, Nov. 6, 1993.
James R. Aycock ('32)--82, Fort Worth, Texas, retired U.S. Army colonel and Civil Service employee, Sept. 16, 1993.
Morris D. Bloodworth Sr. ('33)--85, Jackson, retired Mississippi Forestry Commission employee, July 20, 1993.
Gale H. Manning ('33)--80, Jackson, retired engineer for Mississippi Department of Transportation and World War II veteran, Oct. 11, 1993.
Bernard Strauss Kantor ('35)--81, Charleston, retired owner of Isenberg's Clothing Store and World War II veteran, Oct. 5, 1993.
B.W. Wadlington Jr. ('36)--79, Sledge, retired farmer and World War II veteran, Aug. 31, 1993.
E.N. Ross Jr. ('37)--78, Brandon, retired farmer and cattleman, World War II veteran, and former editor of The Reflector, Oct. 30, 1993.
Vertis G. Ramsay ('38)--75, Pascagoula, retired Jackson County circuit clerk--an office he held for 32 years--and World War II veteran, March 17, 1993.
Otho Clinton Rowell ('38)--81, Wiggins, retired county agent for Stone County, Oct. 14, 1993.
James H. Bennett Jr. ('39)--76, Towson, Md., retired design engineer and administrator for Martin Marietta, Aug. 20, 1993.
Emmett E. Prevost ('40)--83, Charleston, retired Farmer's Home Administration employee, June 26, 1993.
Willie M. Foster ('41, M.S. '66)--79, Houston, retired Chickasaw County superintendent of education, July 19, 1993.
Willard M. Mitchell ('42)--Ponchatoula, La., retired, Aug. 24, 1993.
Charles David Saunders ('42)--73, Greenwood, president of Saunders Investments Inc. and World War II veteran, Aug. 28, 1993. Saunders was a past president of the Mississippi State Alumni Association and a member of the 1941 Orange Bowl team. While in high school, he established the world record for downstream canoeing by navigating the 2,300 miles of the Mississippi River, a record that stood for 42 years in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Roland T. St. John Jr. ('42)--71, New York, advertising executive, July 21, 1993.
William Wilson Hilliard ('43)--71, Amory, retired director of vocational education for Amory City Schools, Oct. 12, 1993.
Thomas Holmes Love ('43)--retired Rice Millers Association employee and World War II veteran, March 28, 1993.
Nancy Randolph Parkes ('48, M.S. '74)--67, Louisville, Winston Academy librarian, Girl Scout leader, DAR member, and founding member of Louisville Little Theater, Aug. 20, 1993.
William H. Ford ('49)--78, Vicksburg, retired engineer for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and World War II veteran, Sept. 14, 1993.
Clara McIntire Perry ('49)--84, Pascagoula, retired schoolteacher, Oct. 11, 1993.
Corbett Keith Saucier ('49, M.S. '54)--70, Leland, retired public school teacher and World War II veteran, July 9, 1993.
Raymond Aust Sr. ('50)--67, Houston, Texas, retired field representative for Mississippi Chemical Corp. and World War II veteran, Oct. 14, 1993.
Roy Odell Fowler ('50)--69, Poplarville, retired Mississippi Cooperative Extension agent and World War II veteran.
Ray W. Lipe ('50)--68, Goodman, retired engineer for International Paper Co. and Navy veteran, Oct. 26, 1993.
Don Robinson ('50)--66, Memphis, retired teacher and coach at Overton High School and former Mississippi State football player, Aug. 31, 1993.
Frank Curtis Boone Sr. ('51)--66, Meridian, retired engineer with Meridian & Bigbee Railroad, July 30, 1993.
Thomas Lamar Wiley Sr. ('51)--69, Tupelo, co-owner of Comfort Engineering, an air conditioning and heating company, and World War II veteran, March 8, 1993.
Wesley Waters Grisham ('59)--72, Ridgeland, retired high school coach and principal, Aug. 31, 1993.
Woodford William King ('62)--52, Fort Worth, Texas, accountant, August 1993.
Jerome Holland ('64)--53, Philadelphia, operation specialist for Shell Oil Co., July 28, 1993.
William Lee Jones ('64, M.A. '67)--50, Madison, Ala., English teacher at Calhoun (Ala.) Community College, May 9, 1993.
Terry Olean Wright ('65, M.Ed. '66)--49, Hammond, La., professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, Oct. 4, 1993.
Thomas M. McWilliams ('66)--Indianola, attorney and mayor of Indianola, Sept. 29, 1993.
Edward Joseph Bass ('69)--46, El Dorado, Ark., cardiologist, Nov. 11, 1993.
James A. Palmer Jr. ('72)--45, Lumberton, retired Laurel park superintendent, Oct. 19, 1993.
Dudley G. Phelps III ('73)--44, Jackson, president of Crescent Industries Inc. and Vietnam conflict veteran, Sept. 25, 1993.
Patrick Weyman Carty ('74)--62, Pheba, farmer, cattleman, and Korean conflict veteran, Sept. 16, 1993.
Alfred P. Robinson ('74)--43, Shaw, farmer, Oct. 15, 1993.
Nicholas J. Wafula ('84, M.S. '86)--Njoro, Kenya, Dec. 10, 1992.
Fred Cannon Jr. (attended)--69, Brookhaven, retired owner of Cannon Electric Co. and World War II veteran, Oct. 20, 1993.
Robert Wayne Decker Jr. (attended)--22, West Point, Riverbirch Golf Club (Amory) employee and avid hunter and fisherman, Oct. 13, 1993.
M. Charles May (attended)--59, Madison, criminal defense lawyer, Aug. 14, 1993.
Ida Louise Monroe (friend)--76, Clinton, retired secretary for Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service in Hinds County, Sept. 12, 1993.
Jason Scott Shelton (student)--20, Louisville, junior majoring in political science and economics and Kappa Alpha fraternity member, Nov. 7, 1993.
Van Stubbs Sr. (friend)--73, Baldwyn, business owner and World War II veteran, Oct. 26, 1993.
Sam E. Virden II (attended)--78, Jackson, retired FBI agent and bank officer, Oct. 10, 1993.
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