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IN MEMORIAM

Listing includes notices shared with the university between April 2 through Sept. 30, 2018.


1930s


38 class year

Edith Price Sloop, Blacksburg, Va., 4/9/18


1940s


42 class year

Ernest L. Hurd Jr., Silver Spring, Md., 1/14/18

Paul M. Fletcher, The Villages, Fla., 5/29/18


43 class year

Benjamin W. Wyche III, Arlington, Va., 2/24/18


44 class year

Burton L. Kelchner, Lakewood, Colo., 5/31/18

William C. Lucas Jr., Du Bois, Pa., 3/9/18

Robert George Smola, Newport News, Va., 4/16/18

Arthur W. Ordel Jr., Keswick, Va., 9/17/18


45 class year

John Robert Kautz, Nitro, W.Va., 4/3/18


46 class year

Kearney F. McQuilkin, Annapolis, Md., 5/15/18

William P. Maddy, Springfield, Mo., 4/4/18


47 class year

Albert Pierce Super, Norfolk, Va., 3/14/18

William Buchanan Coffman, Silver Spring, Md., 5/30/18

Bernard “Ben” C. Meredith Jr., Panama City, Fla., 4/30/18

Elva L. Reynolds Burgchardt, Colorado Springs, Colo., 4/30/18

Evelyn Patton Daniel, Glen Allen, Va., 5/16/18


48 class year

Robert H. Walton Jr., Christiansburg, Va., 4/26/18

Robert Taylor Lawson, Hampton, Va., 4/11/18


49 class year

Harry Randolph Jordan, Gloucester Point, Va., 6/18/18

Earl Raymond Simpson Jr., Lynchburg, Va., 4/22/18

Charles Franklin Trent, Roanoke, Va., 5/15/18

Robert Smith Kern, Winchester, Va., 3/4/18

Robert Chester Jennings, Wytheville, Va., 5/21/18

Truman L. Sayre, Ghent, W.Va., 5/6/18

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1950s


50 class year

W. Lewis Motley, Ringgold, Va., 3/31/18

William Allen Thrasher, Smithfield, Va., 3/14/18

Blaine Frank Parker, Lexington, Ky., 6/17/18

Connie Larue Sellers, Roanoke, Va., 3/29/18

Edwin G. Gatling, Newport News, Va., 3/30/18

Walter Harris Pogue Jr., Lancaster, Pa., 5/9/18

William Whiting McClanahan, Little River, S.C., 4/26/18

James Don Isley, Kingsport, Tenn., 5/17/18


51 class year

Robert E. Mauzy Jr., Blue Grass, Va., 5/14/18

Carl J Arnold, Clinton, S.C., 5/15/18

Robert L. Moore, Haymarket, Va., 4/28/18

William “Ray” Kluge, Virginia Beach, Va., 6/12/18.

S. Clyde Watkins, Lakeland, Fla., 6/2/18

Lawrence J. Klebert, North Chesterfield, Va., 5/22/18

Vernon C. Walton, Richmond, Va., 9/12/18

Roger M. Bottoms, Sterling Heights, Mich., 8/1/16

David Arthur Olsen, North Myrtle Beach, S.C., 5/4/18


52 class year

Robert James Tinder, Pittsburgh, Pa., 4/25/18

Riley Emory Brubaker, Rocky Mount, Va., 4/1/18

Donald F. Simpson Sr., Alexandria, Va., 5/14/18

Jack David Owen, Venice, Fla., 4/13/18


53 class year

Thomas W. Barham, Fairfax, Va., 5/13/18

Jack H. Abbott, Sumter, S.C., 4/16/18

George Warren Swift, Blacksburg, Va., 5/28/18

William B. Allen Jr., Atlanta, Ga., 6/8/18

Ronald Baber Whitehead, Pembroke, Va., 6/18/18

William D. Pollard, Petersburg, Va., 5/12/18

Melvin D. Wagstaff, El Paso, Texas, 3/31/18

Glenn S. Fowler, Bethlehem, Pa., 4/24/18


54 class year

John Linton Hainer, El Paso, Texas, 6/5/18

Donald R. Trippeer, Greenville, N.C., 3/5/18

Thomas Gardner Hines Sr., Suffolk, Va., 6/5/18

Edwin Surber Bolen Jr., Lynchburg, Va., 4/23/18


55 class year

Altamont Dickerson Jr., Ashland, Va., 4/2/18

Robert William Eagan Jr., Manakin-Sabot, Va., 8/7/18

James Price Newbill, Shiloh, Ga., 9/16/18

John Bryan Hall Jr., Yorktown, Va., 3/17/18

John Willis Muncy, Bland, Va., 5/27/18

John F. Kane Jr., Franklin, Mich., 9/18/18


56 class year

Donald L. Sage, Henrico, Va., 4/4/18

Aubrey McCoy Foster Sr., Smyrna, Ga., 3/20/18

Alan Page Stadler Sr., Little River, S.C., 4/30/18

Winfield Massie, Spring, Texas, 5/14/18

Richard G. Cornell, Saline, Mich., 4/2/18

Philip C. Holladay Jr., Richmond, Va., 6/13/18


57 class year

Maurice N. “Buddy” Early, Norfolk, Va., 9/15/18.

Roy M. Miller, Fairfax, Va., 3/11/18

Robert E. Speas, Rockingham, Va., 3/25/18

David A. Hilton, Chesapeake, Va., 5/3/18

James S. Fowler, Memphis, Tenn., 5/15/18

Thomas M. Hall, Charles City, Va., 6/20/18


58 class year

Daniel W. Pruitt, Blackstone, Va., 5/31/18

John E. Hinckle, Richmond, Va., 2/16/18

Parks Adolphas Deaton, Worthington, Ohio, 4/27/18

Thomas P. Johnson Jr., Suffolk, Va., 6/22/18

William Glen Wilson Sr., New Bern, N.C., 3/10/18


59 class year

Buddy W. King, Mechanicsville, Va., 5/24/18

Raymond Stanley Kirchmier II, Henrico, Va., 5/18/17

Claude Charles Barnett, Taylors, S.C., 5/25/18

Ping-Fan Chen, Morgantown, W.Va., 5/19/18.

Richard C. Chin, New York, N.Y., 11/7/17

Kenneth H. Sellers, Burke, Va., 4/20/18

Robert A. Wilmarth, Durham, N.C., 4/18/18

Richard A. Lechner, Toms River, N.J., 5/12/18

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1960s


60 class year

Adrian T. Creech, Wilmington, N.C., 4/5/18

William Michael Brackney, Baton Rouge, La., 6/10/18

Osco James Kennedy, Virginia Beach, Va., 5/22/18

Beulah Stowers Fox, Bishopville, S.C., 6/23/18


61 class year

William Frank Cooper, Cumming, Ga., 3/10/18

Alexander Thomas Ovenshine, Palo Alto, Calif., 6/2/18

Fred L. Jennings, Fries, Va., 4/10/18

Malcolm Lee Cook, Athens, Ala., 3/4/18

James Goodson III, Danville, Va., 3/30/18

Anthony J. Catalano, Triangle, Va., 5/14/18

Dennis Edward Hardy, North Tazewell, Va., 4/23/18

John Temple Fray, Madison, Va., 3/28/18


62 class year

Frederick Emerson Hughes Jr., Richmond, Va., 5/29/18

Elwood Gordon Ball Jr., Heathsville, Va., 5/27/18

Thomas Guilford Sixbey, Salem, Va., 6/6/18

Sammie Garland Hughes, Baytown, Texas, 3/10/18

Samuel Cameron Reid, Hiwassee, Va., 6/10/18

Irving Wayne Swann, Mechanicsvlle, Va., 4/25/18


63 class year

James Richmond Fisher, Norfolk, Va., 2/18/18

Bruce Wade Asai, Malibu, Calif., 3/19/18


64 class year

Eugene Paul Tinus, West Chester, Pa., 6/6/18

Charles Ashley Wrenn, Franklin, Va., 6/8/18

William Oscar Lipscomb III, Chiefland, Fla., 6/19/18

James Alexander Mundy IV, Springfield, Mass., 5/3/18.

Otto Alexander Sanders, Newbury Park, Calif., 6/4/18

William Hevener, Roper, N.C., 3/31/18


65 class year

Richard Edward Bass Jr., Blacksburg, Va., 2/10/18

James Gray Neale Jr., Farmville, Va., 5/30/18

Edward Nils Resio, Fredericksburg, Va., 4/20/18

Donald William Mayberry, Salem, Va., 4/25/18


66 class year

John Alton Elder Jr., Versailles, Ky., 9/17/18


67 class year

John Thomas Benton, Midlothian, Va., 4/2/18.

Timothy Barry Wilson Sr., 9/11/18

Garnett Graham Gamble, Centreville, Va., 3/15/18


68 class year

Walter Leroy Ashley, Lynchburg, Va., 3/16/18

Michael Joseph Bogese Jr., Richmond, Va., 4/24/18


69 class year

John Wingo Long, Mechanicsville, Va., 3/30/18

Edward Joseph Jenkins, Springfield, Va., 3/1/18

Garrett W. Hall, Monkton, Md., 5/25/18

Richard Allen Curtis, Richmond, Va., 5/31/18

Stephen W. Pavlik, Gainesville, Fla., 4/11/18

Kenneth Stuart Culnan, Strasburg, Va., 4/26/18

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1970s


70 class year

Russell Lewis Arbaugh, Waynesboro, Va., 5/28/18.

Jackie Conrad Lankford, Summerfield, N.C., 4/24/18

John Brown Bell Jr., Columbia, Md., 5/10/18

Cary Rayford Williams, Newport News, Va., 5/31/18

Thomas H. Shelton, Roanoke, Va., 5/2/18


71 class year

Suzanne Clare Goedtel, King George, Va., 3/2/18

Bruce W. Fussell, Port Royal, Va., 5/4/18

Lane Bradley Canada, Roanoke, Va., 3/8/18


72 class year

Sidney Charles Englander, Metairie, La., 6/21/18

Michael Joseph Santangelo, Iowa City, Iowa, 4/25/18

John Buchanan Carland, Blacksburg, Va., 5/14/18

Joseph Stephen Newton, Locust Grove, Va., 4/26/18

Bobby Ray Goodman, Roanoke, Va., 4/15/18


73 class year

William Loch Bow, Hollidaysburg, Pa., 5/22/18

Danny Lee Glenn, Jonesborough, Tenn., 4/28/18

Calvin Weldon Easter, Richmond, Va., 4/28/18


74 class year

Sidney Braxton Moody, Henderson, N.C., 6/3/18

Stephen Michael Reynolds, Lynchburg, Va., 5/26/18

Dianne Morie Portner, King George, Va., 3/28/18

Michael Lynn Benson, Elizabethtown, Pa., 4/2/18

Walter Marvin Duncan Jr., Dallas, Texas, 3/24/18

Patricia Lou Walochik, Lilburn, Ga., 6/4/18


75 class year

Gregory James Romanowski, Cape Coral, Fla., 6/12/18

Jerry Lee Chambers, Princeton, W.Va., 4/30/18

Billy Hamner Patterson, Bedford, Va., 9/18/18

Kelvin Howard Wildman, Honeoye Falls, N.Y., 4/18/18

Roger T. Stevens, Rio Rancho, N.M., 5/30/18


76 class year

Charles Arthur Ware Jr., South Boston, Va., 5/3/18

Roberta S. Messamer, Bridgewater, Va., 5/8/18


77 class year

Richard Patrick Steele, Midlothian, Va., 6/4/18

Jesse Harold Perdue Jr., Roanoke, Va., 3/18/18

Mary Jo Shilling Shannon, Roanoke, Va., 4/2/18

Richard Eugene Lenker, Premora, Va., 4/17/18


78 class year

James Mapp Chandler, Norfolk, Va., 5/4/18

Joseph Douglas Stogner, Callaway, Va., 4/6/18

Bruce Conrad Schepens, Las Vegas, Nev., 3/3/18


79 class year

Mark Edward Vermillion Sr., Londonderry, N.H., 5/4/18

Margaret Jones Davidson Irvin, Roanoke, Va., 6/17/18

Arthur Lazarow, Hickory, N.C., 6/10/18


1980s


80 class year

Arthur Laverne Wilson, Lexington, Va., 5/10/18

William Bainbridge Hayden, Fairfax, Va., 4/12/18


82 class year

Jill Gift Lockhart, Matthews, N.C., 4/16/18

John George Heffner, Davidson, N.C., 2/5/18

Joseph Paul Fontenot Jr., Bel Air, Md., 4/17/18


83 class year

Michael Edward Brigham, Colleyville, Texas, 5/2/18

Roger Barry Shields, Marion, Va., 4/21/18

Royal Earl Jones III, Richmond, Va., 6/6/18


84 class year

Dorothy L. Martz Watts, Oakton, Va., 3/31/18

Kathleen Marie Coleman, Blacksburg, Va., 4/14/18

Susan Jackson Reid, Tampa, Fla., 9/13/18


85 class year

Robyn Costigan Rowland, Marion, Va., 5/24/18

William W. Hurt, Naruna, Va., 5/1/18


86 class year

Roman Wolodymyr Dychdala, Phoenixville, Pa., 4/25/18

Jeffrey David Morris, Smithfield, Va., 3/13/18


87 class year

Amy K. Blackburn Owens, Quinton, Va., 4/13/18


88 class year

Lisa Ann Black Starling, Virginia Beach, Va., 5/30/18


89 class year

Megan “Margaret” Helen Dorsett, Christiansburg, Va., 1/30/18.

Charles Lenwood Garnett, Boydton, Va., 6/6/18

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1990s


93 class year

Dorris Phay Cooper Taylor, Alexandria, Va., 5/7/18

Myron Howard Sipe, Elkton, Va., 5/31/18


94 class year

Ryan Thomas Campbell, Martinsburg, W.Va., 5/21/18


95 class year

Alice Mathena LoMascolo, Christiansburg, Va., 4/1/18

Timothy J. Conway, Haymarket, Va., 5/28/18

Roger Allen Asbury, Pulaski, Va., 5/15/18


96 class year

Mark D. Piechoski, Blacksburg, Va., 3/30/18

Michael Rand Bunker, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 6/17/18


2000s


02 class year

William Henderson Johnson Jr., Farmville, Va., 5/10/18


03 class year

Spencer L. Joslin, Blacksburg, Va., 4/16/18


04 class year

Kelly D. Holzhauser, Stephens City, Va., 5/1/18


06 class year

Adam Thomas Waldrop, Roanoke, Va., 6/14/18


2010s


11 class year

Jeanne Esther Goodwin, Virginia Beach, Va., 6/14/18


15 class year

April Leigh Saul, Catawba, Va., 3/26/18

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OBITUARIES

David Allen Fiske, superintendent of the Virginia Tech Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Raphine, Virginia, died Nov. 16, 2018.

Professor Emeritus John F. Hosner, honorary founding dean of the College of Natural Resources and Environment, died Sept. 13, 2018. Hosner joined Virginia Tech in 1961 as head of the newly established Department of Forestry and Wildlife, which was then part of the College of Agriculture.

Susan West Marmagas, director of Virginia Tech’s Master of Public Health program and associate professor of practice in the Department of Population Health Sciences, died Dec. 23, 2018. Marmagas joined Virginia Tech in 2008 and helped establish the university’s public health program and Center for Public Health Practice and Research.

Dilip Kumar Shome, professor emeritus of finance, died Dec. 7, 2018. A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1983, he was head of the Department of Finance, Insurance, and Business Law in the Pamplin College of Business from 1996 to 2000. He retired in 2014.

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