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Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

Bill M. Wise (1958)

Sep 13th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Bill M. Wise, of Nashville, died July 6, 2011. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the University of North Alabama and a doctor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. Dr. Wise served in the U.S. Army Finance Division from 1957-1960. In 1997, he was [...]



James H. Aycock (1957)

Sep 13th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

James H. Aycock, of Knoxville, died August 15, 2011. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Arts and Sciences. Jim retired from T-DOT as a regional engineering geologist whose work involved Remedial Geo-Tech in the development of [...]



Edna Burkhart Carpenter (1950)

Sep 12th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Edna Burkhart Carpenter, of Maryland, died August 11, 2011. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Home Economics.



Lois Oliver Sigler (1952)

Sep 12th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Lois Oliver Sigler, of Memphis, died August 5, 2011. She earned a bachelor’s degree from East Tennessee State University and a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Home Economics. She began her career as a high school home economics teacher in Buchanan, Virginia where she worked from 1944-1946. She then became the [...]



Frank Stephen Riordan (1947)

Sep 12th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Frank Stephen Riordan, of St. Louis, MO, died April 22, 2011. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a master’s degree (1947) and a doctor’s degree (1951) both from the College of Engineering.



Donald Arnett Thomas (1958)

Sep 12th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Donald Arnett Thomas, of Memphis, died August 8, 2011. He was a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. Thomas worked for the Stone Insurance Agency, which he later purchased and eventually sold to E.H. Crump Insurance. He relocated to Memphis and was [...]



Jane Coulter Shuman (1953)

Sep 9th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Jane Coulter Shuman, of Nashville, died July 29, 2011. She graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Home Economics. She taught at Tennessee School for the Deaf and Territorial School for the Deaf in Honolulu, Hawaii.



Larry Jim Parsons (1952)

Sep 9th, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Larry Jim Parsons, of Dallas, TX, died July 25, 2011. Larry served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of Business Administration and worked as a CPA for Magnolia Petroleum in Dallas and South America. In 1959 he joined [...]



Jack B. Steuerwald (1957)

Sep 2nd, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

Jack B. Steuerwald, of Rhinelander, WI, died July 7, 2010. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Arts and Sciences.



W. G. “Dub” Currie (1950)

Sep 2nd, 2011 • Category: Obituaries

W. G. “Dub” Currie, of Humboldt, TN, died in August 2011. Following his service in the U.S. Army Air Force, he graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Business Administration. He worked in the traffic department of the GM&O Railroad for 14 years and then returned to Jackson, Tennessee, [...]