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IN MEMORIAM

These listings include notices shared with the university from Jan. 16, 2020 through April 30, 2020.


1940s


42 class year

George W. Habel Jr., Henrico, Va., 3/16/2020.


43 class year

Edward Benton Hale, Blacksburg, Va., 4/24/2020.

Peyton Leftwich Morgan Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., 1/27/2020.

Virginia Peters Wilson, S. Yarmouth, Mass., 2/1/2020.


44 class year

Lamar “Chap” C. Toomer, Houston, Texas, 3/17/2020.


45 class year

Stanley Goldsmith, Kennewick, Wash., 2/15/2020.

Harriet Goode Reubush, Raleigh, N.C., 4/7/2020.

A. Nelson Sills, Houston, Del., 1/24/2020.

Robert J. White, Kingsport, Tenn., 3/26/2020.


47 class year

Joseph E. Isaac Jr., Lexington, Ky., 2/5/2020.

Calvin Tompkins Lucy Jr., Midlothian, Va., 4/24/2020.


48 class year

Martha Bishop Heiskell, Blacksburg, Va., 3/31/2020.

Philip Ivan Karp, Bradenton, Fla., 1/15/2020.


49 class year

William N. Goodson, Milton, Ala., 12/22/2019.

Paul F. Lumbye, Broad Run, Va., 3/21/2020.

George W. Hill, Wilmington, Del., 2/29/2020.

Augustine Warner Robins Sr., Yorktown, Va., 3/22/2020.

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1950s


50 class year

Richard K. Culbertson, Blacksburg, Va., 1/24/2020.

William Cardwell Hager, Christiansburg, Va., 2/6/2020.

George W. Hill, Baton Rouge, La., 1/25/2020.

Robert Ward Johnson, Midlothian, Va., 3/16/2020.

E. Harley Kline, Manassas, Va., 7/20/2015.

George William Layman, Bristol, Tenn., 1/5/2020.

Wilbur Hamilton Showalter, Earlysville, Va., 4/1/2020.

Jack A. Thalhimer, Springfield, Va., 4/8/2020.


51 class year

Melvin Warren Bryant, Barhamsville, Va., 1/19/2020.

William W. Ford Jr., Charlotte, N.C., 4/2/2020.

John Frances Hamer, Jacksonville, Fla., 2/12/2020.

Bobby E. Stultz, Madison, N.J., 3/22/2020.

Fred G. Sutherland, Sandston, Va., 4/23/2020.

John C. Thompson Jr., Davidson, N.C., 4/14/2020.

David Fallen Varner, Newport News, Va., 3/25/2020.


52 class year

Claude F. Yelton, Pulaski, Va., 2/28/2020.

Edward Lawrence Olson Jr., Columbia, N.C., 1/24/2020.

Howard O. Harrison Jr., Troutville, Va., 2/5/2020.

John Edgar Awalt, Rochester, Minn., 3/20/2020.

Andrew J. Given Jr., Virginia Beach, Va., 1/20/2020.


53 class year

Floyd W. Hough Jr., Hagerstown, Md., 1/17/2020.

Robert Lee Hundley, Mechanicsville, Va., 2/20/2020.

Chuck D. Hutton, Charlotte, N.C., 4/7/2020.


54 class year

John “J.D.” D. Barbour, Bluefield, Va., 3/5/2020.

Floyd V. Bennett, Sugar Land, Texas, 3/19/2020.

James T. Blankenship, Valencia, Calif., 1/24/2020.

James H. Burkholder, Lynchburg, Va., 2/10/2020.

Mary Ann Jones Hall, Midlothian, Va., 1/10/2020.


55 class year

Thomas J. Blair III, Charleston, W.Va., 3/13/2020.

Harry McDonald Francis Jr., Chapel Hill, N.C., 1/29/2020.

Thomas B. French, Dubuque, Iowa, 3/23/2020.

Arden Nelson Huff, Dugspur, Va., 2/10/2020.

Hubert “H.H.” Hamilton Jewell Jr., Culpeper, Va., 4/10/2020.

Harold P. Remines, Abingdon, Va., 2/4/2020.


56 class year

Herbert Ray Alcorn Sr., Blacksburg, Va., 1/25/2020.

Michael O. Efird, Lawrenceville, Ga., 1/29/2020.

William Gabriel III, Missoula, Mont., 4/7/2020.

John D. Lambert, Richmond, Va., 1/16/2020.


57 class year

L. Dale Higginbotham, Amherst, Va., 3/25/2020.

Randolph Cutchin Hodges, Andrews, S.C., 3/26/2020.

Robert H. Pusey, Christiansburg, Va., 4/4/2020.

John B. Tenney Jr., Williamson, N.Y., 2/17/2020.


58 class year

John C. Holladay Jr., Norfolk, Va., 2/9/2020.

E. Towson Moore, Durham, N.C., 1/21/2020.

Andrew L. Nester, Floyd, Va., 2/1/2020.

Andrew Thomas Roth Jr., Springfield, Va., 2/15/2020.

Joseph William Tackett, Kokomo, Ind., 3/7/2020.

Garland Ray Williams, Lynchburg, Va., 1/27/2020.


59 class year

Charles “C.B.” Boyd Foster Jr., Alexandria, Va., 1/18/2020.

Roger Glen Furgurson, Williamsburg, Va., 2/20/2020.

John Lynwood Mouring Jr., Gloucester Point, Va., 3/10/2020.

Janet Cobb Newcomb, Haymarket, Va., 3/19/2020.

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1960s


60 class year

Phillip Edmund Barnard Sr., Amelia Court House, Va., 1/21/2020.

Charles W. Elgin Jr., Christiansburg, Va., 2/23/2020.

Joseph Carl Pratt Jr., Martinsville, Va., 3/14/2020.

Shirley Farrier Copenhaver Strother, Blacksburg, Va., 4/3/2020.

James Montgomery Wright, Knoxville, Tenn., 4/22/2020.


61 class year

Frederick W. Dulaney Jr., Roanoke, Va., 2/5/2020.

Raymond Joseph Klotz Jr., Mechanicsville, Va., 2/1/2020.

Alwyn Dale Mottesheard, Moseley, Va., 4/2/2020.

Curtis D. Snyder, Port Tobacco, Md., 3/29/2020.


62 class year

David W. Gillespie, Wilmington, N.C., 1/28/2020.

William Farr Holtzclaw, Rehoboth Beach, Del., 1/17/2020.

Edward F. Swansey Jr., Richmond, Va., 11/2/2019.


63 class year

James Arnel Conner, Roanoke, Va., 3/14/2020.

William Lee Dail, Lynchburg, Va., 1/13/2020.

Joseph Edmund Hile, Danville, Va., 3/25/2020.

Raymond Reynarld Kirby, Floyd, Va., 1/27/2020.

John William Minichan, Barboursville, W.Va. 4/25/2020.

Jerry M. Soukup, Seminole, Fla., 2/1/2020.

Charles E. Tilson Jr., Blacksburg, Va., 4/18/2020.


64 class year

Joseph Wilson Arnold, Mechanicsville, Va., 1/13/2020.

Ronald Hamilton Mackey, Middleville, Mich., 2/10/2020.

Michael Watson Stoner, Hagerstown, Md., 4/21/2020.


65 class year

James Frederic Ballard, Haymarket, Va., 3/19/2020.

Ronald Lee Barker, Richmond, Va., 1/26/2020.

James Michael Glennon Jr., Wadmalaw Island, S.C., 4/17/2020.

Edgar Paul Hilton, Glen Allen, Va., 3/1/2020.

Jack Buckland Johnson Sr., Roanoke, Va., 4/12/2020.


66 class year

Edward George Astin Jr., Rocky Mount, N.C., 3/8/2020.

Harold Thomas Blankenship Jr., Alexandria, Va., 4/11/2020.

William E. Miller, Bradenton, Fla., 2/20/2020.

John L. Rothgeb Jr., Santa Ana, Calif., 1/11/2020.

Lee Edward Sharpe, Frederick, Md., 3/19/2020.

Patricia Jane Skeen, Rosedale, Va., 2/2/2020.

Rodney W. Smith, Elliston, Va., 2/8/2020.

Charles Winston Swain, Williamsburg, Va., 3/2/2020.

Hugh Barnes Townsend Jr., Manquin, Va., 4/25/2020.


67 class year

Averill M. Hansen Jr., Fort Mill, S.C., 2/20/2020.

Richard Louis Kornmann, Lewistown, Pa., 1/30/2020.

Robert Schindler Pearman, Grottoes, Va., 4/1/2020.


68 class year

James Wright Ellis, Mechanicsville, Va., 4/26/2020.

Forrest Dale Hall Jr., Reedville, Va., 1/5/2020.


69 class year

Robert Wallace Austin Jr., Danville, Va., 1/29/2020.

Henry Johnson Davis Jr., Goffstown, N.H., 3/31/2020.

Ronald Earl Fletcher, West Grove, Pa., 3/12/2020.

Charles Temple Gaynor, Chicago, Ill., 2/26/2020.

Dennis Ho, Dover, Del., 3/16/2020.

Steven Wayne Pittman, Richmond, Va., 1/16/2020.

Daniel Irvin Putzulu, White Post, Va., 3/1/2020.

Dennis Meredith Smith, Bergton, Va., 3/28/2020.

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1970s


70 class year

Homer Ronald Coake, Draper, Va., 1/22/2020.

John N. Dooley, Broken Bow, Okla., 3/18/2020.

William E. Elliott III, Clintwood, Va., 9/2/2019.

Joseph Francis Goncalves Jr., Chesapeake, Va., 3/19/2020.

Kermit K. Hutcheson, Athens, Ga., 2/2/2020.

Clifford F. Phillips II, Buchanan, Va., 3/8/2020.

Walter W. Revere, Wake, Va., 3/17/2020.


71 class year

Bruce Howard Booth, Reedville, Va., 1/14/2020.

William Michael Darracott, Germantown, Md., 1/28/2020.

Gordon Thomas Dickinson, Shrewsbury, Pa., 4/13/2020.

Wayne Coulbourn Lee, Winchester, Va., 3/21/2020.

Gary Stephen Quesenberry, Radford, Va., 1/11/2020.

Carl Granville Thomas Jr., Ocala, Fla., 4/20/2020.


72 class year

Mark Squire Adams, New York, N.Y., 2/15/2020.

Boardman Homer Caraway Jr., Lancaster, S.C., 2/11/2020.


73 class year

Thomas Edward Brown, Sterling, Va., 12/29/2019.

E-Li Elizabeth Chen, Greensboro, N.C., 1/14/2020.

Elwyn Martin Clifton, Fincastle, Va., 2/11/2020.

Robert Loron German, Virginia Beach, Va., 3/13/2020.

Nancy “Betsy” Parks Maloney, Spotsylvania, Va., 1/10/2020.

Ronald Keith Mason, Henrico, Va., 3/16/2020.

Susan Yates Mills, Leesburg, Va., 4/9/2020.

Beverly Huston Sgro, Asheville, N.C., 3/13/2020.


74 class year

Gordon Charles Alling, Fredericksburg, Va., 3/10/2020.

John A. Bresnahan, Annandale, Va., 3/10/2020.

Grover Lee Carter Jr., Chester, Va., 3/28/2020.

George Edwards Hunt Jr., Rocky Mount, Va., 3/2/2020.

Donald Rae McLean, Wasilla, Ark., 2/9/2020.

Deborah Elizabeth Edwards Osborne, Blacksburg, Va., 1/22/2020.

Dennis John Phillips, Charlotte, N.C., 4/23/2020.

Michael A. Schroedl, Newport News, Va., 2/15/2020.

Joseph Gary Vipperman, Pulaski, Va., 1/14/2020.


75 class year

Joseph Thomas Coleman, Roanoke, Va., 3/12/2020.

Mary Moyer Phelps, Middleburg, Va., 4/13/2020.

Sandra Smith Ridout, Grand Junction, Colo., 3/18/2020.

Virginia Harrison Russell, Lawrenceville, Va., 3/21/2020.

Phillip Cato Scheider, Manassas, Va., 1/15/2020.

Margaret “Peg” Wirth Woolf, Hamilton, N.J., 2/19/2020.


76 class year

Lloyd Allen Anderson, Abingdon, Va., 3/1/2020.

Wayne A. DeVan, Landisville, Pa., 1/29/2020.

James Earl Glascock, Capron, Va., 3/27/2020.

Frances Anne Harrison, Bluefield, W.Va., 1/19/2020.

Frederick David Snell Jr., Blacksburg, Va., 2/13/2020.

Robert Bruce Vaughan, Westford, Vt., 2/10/2020.

James Lynn Williams, Spotsylvania, Va., 2/14/2020.

Richard T. Williams II, Louisville, Tenn., 2/29/2020.


77 class year

Naomi Ruth Winfrey Astle, Beckley, W.Va., 4/12/2020.

Larry William Carper, Friendswood, Texas, 4/14/2020.

Robert M. Fisher, Bedford, Texas, 2/14/2020.

Thomas William Klima, Alexandria, Va., 2/25/2020.

Louis Andrew Sanders, Norfolk, Va., 2/7/2020.

Romona Perry Williams, Roanoke, Va., 3/13/2020.


78 class year

Ellen Mason Luce, Falls Church, Va., 1/4/2020.


79 class year

James Wallace Kirks Jr., Chesapeake, Va., 1/15/2020.

Steven Daniel Moses, Yorktown, Va., 2/10/2020.


1980s


80 class year

William Legrand Higgs, Mountain Top, Pa., 1/26/2020.

Fernando Anthony Munilla, Statesboro, Ga., 2/9/2020.

James F. Ripp, Blacksburg, Va., 2/3/2020.


81 class year

Joseph Lindsay Browning, Reston, Va., 1/31/2020.

Roy R. Smith Jr., Blacksburg, Va., 1/23/2020.

William Charles Newman, Hilton Head Island, S.C., 3/26/2020.


82 class year

Deborah Lowe Duty, North Myrtle Beach, S.C., 1/16/2020.

Amanda Shockley Hanks, Franklin, Va., 1/25/2020.

James Thomas Kline III, Falls Church, Va., 1/12/2020.

Theresa Cardinal Lee, Manassas, Va., 1/28/2020.

Peggy Condon Vance, Mohnton, Pa., 3/1/2020.


83 class year

Gayle Allison Hooper, Springfield, Va., 1/29/2020.

Mark Taylor Keffer, Virginia Beach, Va., 4/19/2020.

Joel Gregory Long, Nevada City, Calif., 3/8/2020.

Vincent Paul Vala, Culpeper, Va., 4/21/2020.


84 class year

William Peter Bialick, Clarksville, Md., 3/14/2020.

Brian Patrick Fimian, Arlington, Va., 4/5/2020.

Evelyn Harris Wigglesworth, Chesapeake, Va., 4/4/2020.


85 class year

James Andrew Pemberton, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., 2/9/2020.

Carolyn Lee Thomas, Ferrum, Va., 1/14/2020.

Joseph Lloyd Wilson, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 3/10/2020.


86 class year

Wallace Palmer Carroll, Mechanicsville, Va., 1/18/2020.

John Patrick Hearring, Chesterfield, Va., 1/30/2020.

Alice Mae Verra Williams, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1/19/2020.


87 class year

Nelson Botts Janes, Las Vegas, Nev., 2/6/2020.


88 class year

Johan Sikkar, Severna Park, Md., 2/25/2020.

Kimberly Hamrick Tavaglione, Woodbridge, Va., 1/24/2020.


89 class year

Judith Kathryn Rains Jandreau, Rock Hall, Md., 4/16/2020.

Floyd Steven Meredith, Pearisburg, Va., 2/26/2020.

Lisa Marie Brown Petrovich, Haymarket, Va., 3/5/2020.

Michael John Smith, Snoqualmie, Wash., 3/22/2020.

Warren David Strickler, Kingsport, Tenn., 1/25/2020.

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1990s


90 class year

Laura Michelle Armstrong, Newport News, Va., 3/22/2020.

William Howard Brown, Danville, Va., 2/17/2020.

Charles Francis Fox, Dubai, 2/25/2020.

Timothy Blaine Roach, Lynchburg, Va., 2/29/2020.


92 class year

David Eisele Baum, Williamsburg, Va., 2/9/2020.

Kaye Farley Johnson Nichols, Roanoke, Va., 3/20/2020.

Stephen Christian Piccirilli, Eldersburg, Md., 2/21/2020.


93 class year

Kevin John Martin, Crozet, Va., 2/21/2020.

Jeanette Webb Rhile, Advance, N.C., 2/20/2020.

Michael Greenlee Van Ness, Lexington, Va., 3/29/2020.


94 class year

Michelle LaMay Forgash, Leesburg, Va., 2/18/2020.

Jane R. Misheloff, Arlington, Va., 1/21/2020.


95 class year

James D. Patterson, Charlotte, N.C., 2/28/2020.


97 class year

Robert R. Everett Jr., Richmond, Va., 1/27/2020.


98 class year

Jon A. Taillon, Arlington, Va., 2/20/2020.


99 class year

Zachary William Fletchall, Daleville, Va., 4/17/2020.


2000s


01 class year

Peter Anthony Lobue, Fort Thomas, Ky., 4/1/2020.


02 class year

David Michael Hundley, Ridgeway, Va., 2/27/2020.


03 class year

Debra Wilson Gillis, Boulder, Wyo., 2/13/2020.

George Whitney Shellem, Colorado Springs, Colo., 1/25/2020.


07 class year

Megan Elizabeth Bennett, Plainfield, Ill., 1/9/2020.

Geoffrey David Malgee, Midlothian, Va., 2/1/2020.

Robert Duvall Neese, Brentwood, Tenn., 4/9/2020.


2010s


10 class year

Lauren Kathleen Angleton, Bend, Ore., 2/6/2020.

Matthew John Sarver, Bernardsville, N.J., 2/22/2020.


15 class year

Scott Le Hoang, Manassas, Va., 1/26/2020.


19 class year

David Carrington Huff, Blacksburg, Va., 3/29/2020.

Willem David Schilder, Blacksburg, Va., 1/22/2020.

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OBITUARIES

Faculty and staff

Ray Douglas Pethtel, Jr., former Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) commissioner, director of the Center for Transportation Research at Virginia Tech, and the founding director of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission for the Commonwealth of Virginia, died Sept. 12. A champion of innovation, Pethtel played a significant role in positioning Virginia Tech as a leader in transportation research and technology.

Robert H. Pusey ’57, M.S. ’58, Ph.D. ’72, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, died April 4. Pusey, who held various positions over his 40-year career at the university, was recognized with an Academic Advising Award in 1993 and was a charter member of the Academy of Advising Excellence.

Charles A. Roatenberry, of Dublin, a longtime electrician within the Division of Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities, passed away on July 30.

Jack Marshall Tyree, former director of Virginia 4-H, passed away on May 27.

Robert Wheeler, professor emeritus of mathematics in the Virginia Tech College of Science, died June 1.

A generous friend

Russell Hitt

Russell Hitt

Russell Amos Hitt, who helped transform his family’s business into one of the nation's largest and most successful general contracting firms and whose family has been extraordinarily generous to Virginia Tech, died on Sept. 14, 2020.

Hitt and his family’s foundation were among the early supporters of Virginia Tech’s two-building Intelligent Infrastructure and Construction Complex, a home for the university’s nationally leading programs in smart construction, autonomous vehicles, ubiquitous mobility, and energy systems. One of the buildings, which will allow for doubling the enrollment of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction, will be named Hitt Hall.

While Hitt did not attend Tech, he admired and benefitted from the graduates the university was producing. Hitt received the Myers-Lawson Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Construction Industry from the Virginia Tech Myers-Lawson School of Construction.

Read more about Hitt at vtnews.vt.edu.

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