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Mexico public schools. Mary Josephine Holmes (BA ’32, MED ‘71)—1-5-04. She was a teacher and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Ruth Knight (BS ’32)—12-16-02. She was a retired secretary who majored in English. She also attended the Training School. Aleise Maxine Cline (BA ‘34)—10-19-03. She was retired as the director of counseling and guidance at the Abilene (TX) ISD. Lloyd Elvy Gilbert (BS ’35, MA ‘40)—10-19-00. He majored in history and education. Dorothy Marie Leinart Farr (BA ‘37)—1-28-04. She was a homemaker in Caddo Mills, TX. Joe Dale Hunt (BS ’37)—9-30-03. He was a Fort Worth resident who had majored in industrial arts education.
Lera Inez Jacobs Rash (BS ‘38)—11-20-03. She was a longtime teacher in Hunt County and the Borger school system. Olevia Geraldine Lawson Bobo (BS ’40)—1-11-04. She was a retired teacher from Arizona who began her teaching career in the Wallace Community, near Canton, Texas. Frances Castle Lee (BS ’40, MS ‘53)—12-3-03. She had retired from teaching after 42 years, 39 of them in Caddo Mills, TX and most in second grade. She also was active in church education and music. Mary Elizabeth Johnson (BS ’41)—1-2-04. She was a retired vice president from a Dallas bank. Velma Golden Shoemake (BS ’41)—1-1-04. She was a Commerce resident and was a teacher and artist. T.P. “Jake” Trice. Jr. (BS ’42, MS ‘47)— 12-8-03. He had retired from Port Isabel (TX) ISD. Ouida L. Guest (BS ’44, MED ‘69)—1-6-04. She once directed the Baptist Student Union at East Texas State Teachers College, and went on to teach for 33 years in several Texas towns. In 1984 she retired as the counselor at the high school in Atlanta, TX. She was a chamber of commerce Woman of the Year in 1995. Duane Lee Phillips (BS ’47, MS ‘46)—1-1-03. He had majored in industry and technology and was a resident of Texarkana, TX. Florence Neel Vinson (MS ’55)—8-11-02. She majored in library and information science. Lois Thelma Wallace Crouch (BS ’57)—12-6-03. She had retired as an art teacher from Dallas ISD. George E. Peacock (BS ’59, MED ‘61)—11-14-03. He was a Korean War veteran who taught school in Slocum,Texas. Linda Lou Greer Chandler (BS ’60)—12-14-03. She was an artist who also taught school for 18 years. James Herrington Short (BS ’62)—11-02. He had majored in industry and technology. Meryle Toone Wright (BS ’62)—11-13-03. She was a retired teacher who taught Sunday school for more than 50 years. Rodney Grey Franklin (BS ’63)—3-04-03. He was affiliated with M.L. Leddy and Sons Boot Company for 20 years and served as general manager of the Rusty Franklin Boot Company for 17 years. Louise Thompson Gilbert (BS ’63, MS ‘70). She majored in elementary education and library science. Sonja Sue Hilliard (BS ’64, MED ‘73)—12-14-03. A resident of Canton, TX, she taught school for more than 36 years. Joyce Aphine Tarlton Sparks (BS ’64)—11-20-03. A resident of Gun Barrel City in Texas, she was a teacher, speech coach and drama coach. Ernest E. Stephens Jr. (MED ‘64)—12-2-03. In 1979 he retired as superintendent for business of the Clear Creek ISD. Dorothy Bivin Murchison (MED ‘67)—12-2-03. She was a music teacher in Corsicana, TX. Roger Dale Raulston (BBA ‘68)—11-11-03. He majored in human resource management and lived in Texarkana, TX. Ruth Ann Davis Rivers (BA ‘68)—10-22-03. She majored in English. Patricia Ruth Tucker Todd (MS ’68)—11-7-03. She was a librarian for more than 20 years at the Brownwood, TX, library. Jamie Loughmiller Matthews (MS ‘71)—1-19-04. She was an organist at First United Methodist in Canton, TX, for more than 20 years. John Randel Jones (BS ’74)—He was an elementary education major. David Lynn Cannon (BS ’75, MS ‘77)—1-5-04. He had been a probation officer and college professor. In 1991 David started Appleseed Book Series for children, which he writes for. He was an Alumni Ambassador for the Department of History in 1998. Gabe Nesbitt (BS ’76)—12-5-03. He was a member of the city council in McKinney, TX. Chester Clayton Pratt (MS ‘88)—12-2-03. He was a clinical care manager for Value Options in Coppell, TX. Julia Lea Cartwright Mitchell (BS ’90, MED ‘93)—1-1-04. She was a member of Chi Omega and a fourth-grade teacher in Greenville, TX. Only 36 years old, she was the daughter of A&M-Commerce retired associate professor Carolyn Cooper Cartwright (MED ‘81, EDD ‘86) and Don Cartwright (BMED ‘56). Don directed the jazz orchestra that played for the first Last Dinner Dances, the Centennial and ROTC Reunion balls, and President McFarland’s Inaugural Ball. In Memory of Faculty and Former Students Pradeep Sada—2-2-04. He was a graduate student in industrial technology. Lovie Christine Hubbard Shaw—11-15-03. Known as “Granny,” she was a dietician at a nursing home in Commerce. Charles G. Thompson. He was on campus in the early ‘40s as a member of an Army specialized training unit. Dr. George Preda—12-03. The University flag flew at half staff Dec. 22 in memory of the retired faculty member in the Department of Literature and Languages. University will miss longtime employee who led campus beautification
Ken also could be counted on to lend a hand to many Alumni projects such as the annual Distinguished Alumni breakfast. A memorial fund in Ken’s memory has been established with the Texas A&M University-Commerce Foundation. The fund will be used to honor Ken and compliment one of his favorite projects, the Heritage Garden. With sufficient contributions, an endowment will be established to provide perpetual care for the garden. Contributions should be made to: Texas A&M
University-Commerce Foundation, P.O. 3425, Commerce, TX 75429.
Please indicate that donations are for the Ken Woodall Memorial
Fund. For more information, contact Glenda Anderson at 903-468-3020
or Jan Ainsworth at 903-886-5712. Dr. Doyce Dees (BS ’50), a retired obstetrician-gynecologist and colonel in the Air Force, died in January following a long illness. Doyce earned a degree in chemistry from ETSU. As a student he was a founding member of the Tejas Club, a social organization for men. After graduation, he went on to Southwestern Medical School in Dallas where he earned a medical degree. He spent the next 20 years in the U.S. Air Force medical branch, and then returned to Fort Worth as a professor and assistant director of the UT Southwestern residency program at John Peter Smith Hospital. Friends say he was considered a “stabilizing influence in the medical field and was highly regarded in the medical community as a physician, teacher, friend and gentleman.” He was known, they say, for his positive attitude, passion, work ethic, teaching skill, and confidence. Doyce’s son, Doyce B. Dees III (BS ’93, MS ’98), is a laboratory coordinator at A&M-Commerce working on his doctorate. Memorial contributions may be made to the Texas A&M University Commerce Foundation. Dr. Wadie Moore Dr. Wadie Myrel Moore (BS ’62, EDD ‘72) died in January, just a couple of months after he participated in the annual Veterans’ Vigil at A&M Commerce in November. His story as a U.S. Marine who was severely wounded while fighting in Korea was featured later in a local newspaper. “They slaughtered my company,” he told a reporter. “I think there were 228 of us who went up there out of my company. Only thirty-seven or thirty-eight survived.” He said he still struggles with guilt over having survived, even though an 81mm mortar blew away half his face and caused him to spend three years in a Navy hospital. In 1950 Wadie graduated from West Delta High School in Delta County, Texas, and he joined the Marine Corps later that year. In May 1951 he went to war in Korea, and on Sept. 11 of that year received extensive facial injuries at what would become known as the Battle of the Punch Bowl. He spent the next three years undergoing facial reconstruction at naval hospitals, and would wear literal battle scars the rest of his life. He was a life member of the Brotherhood of Survivors of H-3-7. After earning his degrees, he spent many years in education, teaching in classrooms from the elementary to university levels. He retired as a full professor from Cumberland College in Kentucky in 1989. Upon his death, the newspaper in Greenville, TX, published an editorial, “Semper Fi, Wadie Moore” in tribute to him, saying that “Hunt County and Uncle Sam lost a good man. ... He will be missed.” Memorials may be made through the Texas A&M University-Commerce Foundation to establish the Dr. Wadie Moore Endowment.
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