IN MEMORIAM
Listing includes notices shared with the university between April 2 through Sept. 30, 2018.
1930s

Edith Price Sloop, Blacksburg, Va., 4/9/18
1940s

Ernest L. Hurd Jr., Silver Spring, Md., 1/14/18
Paul M. Fletcher, The Villages, Fla., 5/29/18

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

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

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

Kearney F. McQuilkin, Annapolis, Md., 5/15/18
William P. Maddy, Springfield, Mo., 4/4/18

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

Robert H. Walton Jr., Christiansburg, Va., 4/26/18
Robert Taylor Lawson, Hampton, Va., 4/11/18

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
1950s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
1960s

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

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

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

James Richmond Fisher, Norfolk, Va., 2/18/18
Bruce Wade Asai, Malibu, Calif., 3/19/18

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

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

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

John Thomas Benton, Midlothian, Va., 4/2/18.
Timothy Barry Wilson Sr., 9/11/18
Garnett Graham Gamble, Centreville, Va., 3/15/18

Walter Leroy Ashley, Lynchburg, Va., 3/16/18
Michael Joseph Bogese Jr., Richmond, Va., 4/24/18

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
1970s

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

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

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

William Loch Bow, Hollidaysburg, Pa., 5/22/18
Danny Lee Glenn, Jonesborough, Tenn., 4/28/18
Calvin Weldon Easter, Richmond, Va., 4/28/18

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

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

Charles Arthur Ware Jr., South Boston, Va., 5/3/18
Roberta S. Messamer, Bridgewater, Va., 5/8/18

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

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

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

Arthur Laverne Wilson, Lexington, Va., 5/10/18
William Bainbridge Hayden, Fairfax, Va., 4/12/18

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

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

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

Robyn Costigan Rowland, Marion, Va., 5/24/18
William W. Hurt, Naruna, Va., 5/1/18

Roman Wolodymyr Dychdala, Phoenixville, Pa., 4/25/18
Jeffrey David Morris, Smithfield, Va., 3/13/18

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

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

Megan “Margaret” Helen Dorsett, Christiansburg, Va., 1/30/18.
Charles Lenwood Garnett, Boydton, Va., 6/6/18
1990s

Dorris Phay Cooper Taylor, Alexandria, Va., 5/7/18
Myron Howard Sipe, Elkton, Va., 5/31/18

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

Alice Mathena LoMascolo, Christiansburg, Va., 4/1/18
Timothy J. Conway, Haymarket, Va., 5/28/18
Roger Allen Asbury, Pulaski, Va., 5/15/18

Mark D. Piechoski, Blacksburg, Va., 3/30/18
Michael Rand Bunker, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 6/17/18
2000s

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

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

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

Adam Thomas Waldrop, Roanoke, Va., 6/14/18
2010s

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

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