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Posts Tagged ‘1944’

Grace M. Estabrook (1944)

Aug 18th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Grace M. Estabrook, formerly of Maryville, TN, died July 6, 2011. She was a graduate of Maryville College and earned a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Business Administration. In her early years, she taught school in Ohio and Tennessee. She was a physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and in [...]



Edgar Gentry Barton, Jr. (1944)

Aug 17th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Edgar Gentry Barton, Jr., of Gainesville, GA, died July 6, 2011. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Arts and Sciences and served in WWII as an Ensign USNR. He was a retired regional sales manager in Atlanta for CIBA Pharmaceutical Company.



Charles Walter Clift (1944)

Aug 17th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Charles Walter Clift, of Knoxville, died July 12, 2011. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. He served in WWII as a radio operator on B-17 bombers, flying over 40 missions. For over fifty years he taught voice and piano to hundreds [...]



Martin Luther Black, Jr. (1944)

Jun 3rd, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Martin Luther Black, Jr. of Ann Arbor, MI, died April 23, 2011. He earned a bachelor’s (1944) and a doctor’s degree (1949) both from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee. He was employed by Parke, Davis & Co. as a research chemist and, at the time of his retirement in [...]



Josephine W. Lebrun (1944)

Mar 7th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Josephine W. Lebrun, of Ellsworth, ME, died February 26, 2011. She was a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Business Administration. She worked for the FBI during J. Edgar Hoover’s administration in Washington D.C. and later had a distinguished career as a district sales manager for Avon [...]



Suzanna Lipscomb Kennon (1944)

Dec 10th, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Suzanna Lipscomb Kennon, of Tallahassee, FL, died November 29, 2010. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, she received a bachelor’s degree from the College of Home Economics. Mrs. Kennon taught Home Economics for Bartow High School and Traviss Vo-Tech for many years.



Harriet Rankin Hunter (1944)

Nov 16th, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Harriet Rankin Hunter, of Brentwood, TN, died November 11, 2010. Harriet graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Home Economics and from the University of Mississippi with a master’s degree. She retired from the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Education in 1983.



Samuel Hopkins “Hop” Bailey, Jr. (1944)

Oct 21st, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Samuel Hopkins “Hop” Bailey, Jr., of Knoxville, died October 15, 2010. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Business Administration. He proudly served in the U.S. 9th Air Corp throughout WWII as Aircraft Commander, piloting Douglas C-47s and C-S4s for the 442nd Troop Carrier Command in Europe, [...]



Zelig O. Wise (1944)

Jul 15th, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Zelig O. Wise, of Orlando, FL, died June 24, 2010. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. During WWII he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Mr. Wise was a builder and developer in Orlando and founded Wise Brothers, Inc.



Virginia B. Hubbell (1944)

Jun 29th, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Virginia B. Hubbell, of St. Louis, MO, died May 4, 2010. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Arts and Sciences.