IN MEMORIAM
Listing includes notices shared with the university between October 1 through Dec. 31, 2018.
1940s
Carl N. Wallnau Jr., Newtown, Penn., 6/29/18.
Cannie Bryant Harrell Jr., Newport News, Va., 10/13/18.
Avoy Scales Glover, Kenbridge, Va., 7/1/18.
Ray G. L'Amoreaux, Tallahassee, Fla., 9/1/18.
Mitchel P. Raftelis, Quantico, Va., 8/14/18.
Ralph W. Cline, Harrisonburg, Va., 9/23/18.
Glenn A. Main Jr., Timonium, Md., 9/25/18.
John Rayne Cropper Jr., Fair Oaks, Calif., 7/3/18.
Robert B. Fetter, Vero Beach, Fla., 7/15/18.
Julian B. Jacobs, Virginia Beach, Va., 8/31/18.
Herbert Fleming Scott Jr., Prince George, Va., 8/8/18.
Howard James Curfman Jr., Hampton, Va., 7/23/18.
William B. Smith Jr., Rocky Mount, Va., 8/31/18.
Robert Thaddeus Muse Sr., Blacksburg, Va., 8/8/18.
Francis X. Gribbon, Amityville, N.Y., 11/23/18.
Charles H. Tomlin Jr., Allentown, Pa., 8/2/18.
William A. “Al” Cobb, Lynchburg, Va., 10/19/18.
William Claude Banner Jr., Welch, W.Va., 10/1/18.
James John Neate, Silver Springs, Fla., 10/26/18.
James T. Donahue, Ashland, Va., 7/11/18.
Sidney Coplon, Wheaton, Md., 8/23/18.
Ray Steger Jones, Blackstone, Va., 7/2/18.
Beverly M. Estes, Martinsville, Va., 7/1/18.
Beverley C. Yowell, Mechanicsville, Va., 8/1/18.
1950s
Elton Yancey McGann, Williamsburg, Va., 11/25/18.
Preston H. Andrews, Altavista, Va., 7/19/18.
John T. Carver Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., 11/20/18.
Joseph Augustus “Gus” Barlow, Westborough, Mass., 7/20/18.
Cecil M. Massie, Westminster, Md., 8/20/18.
Calvin Page Woodford, Moneta, Va., 10/18/18.
Robert R. Hunter Sr., Williamsburg, Va., 10/4/18.
Marian Crouch Baldwin, Farmville, Va., 11/25/18.
Greenville “Greenie” L. Wright Jr., Virginia Beach, Va., 10/3/18.
Oswald D. Taylor Jr., Danvers, Mass., 8/10/18.
Herman W. Lutz, Winchester, Va., 7/31/18.
Charles Edward Buckley III, Durham, N.C., 6/29/18.
Robert P. McGee, Gloucester Point, Va., 11/26/18.
William P. Frost Jr., Wilmington, Mass., 8/7/18.
Harry Green, Blacksburg, Va., 3/31/18.
Stuart Mason Carbaugh, Richmond, Va., 7/31/18.
Breckinridge V. Rust, Raleigh, N.C., 10/10/18.
Walter William “Dunk” Duncan, Brodnax, Va., 10/7/18.
Altman W. Lampe II, Sebastian, Fla., 9/13/18.
William O. Purcell Jr., Fern Park, Fla., 11/14/18.
Joseph Belton Johnson, Oxford, Fla., 9/18/18.
Alan Quinter Spitler, Maryville, Tenn., 8/29/18.
Wilton B. Jackson, Richmond, Va., 8/21/18.
James Lyne Starling, Roseville, Minn., 11/3/18.
David B. Conner, Grand Junction, Colo., 11/26/18.
Joseph McCalvey Gulbronson Jr., West Caldwell, N.J., 10/18/18.
William D. McLaughlin Jr., Greenwood, S.C., 8/13/18.
Robert Henry Shultz Jr., Irvington, Va., 11/16/18.
Oley S. Poer Jr., Greensboro, N.C., 7/11/18.
Charles C. Wagoner, Canton, Ga., 9/29/18.
Carl Graham Hodnett Jr., Clemmons, N.C., 7/22/18.
Edgar Farrington Pierce, Midlothian, Va., 9/27/18.
Billups Esterbrooke Lodge, Pawleys Island, S.C., 12/1/18.
Jack F. Neel, Albemarle, N.C., 11/12/18.
Daniel C. Newbill Jr., Honolulu, Hawaii, 8/9/18.
Wellford Holton Moore, Gainesville, Va., 11/27/18.
Marion Bellfield Elliott Jr., Tetonia, Idaho, 9/22/18.
Harold W. Roller, Weyers Cave, Va., 7/22/18.
Russell Ford Stebar, Morgan, Utah, 7/17/18.
William L. Jenks, Emporia, Kan., 7/9/18.
Marion Dupre Cook, Marietta, Ga., 10/5/18.
Theodore A. Magnusdal, Richmond, Va., 6/25/18.
Robert A. Kinsey, Alexandria, Va., 11/21/18.
Algie B. Ward Jr., West Point, Va., 8/13/18.
John Apperson Heard Sr., Berryville, Va., 10/15/18.
W. Thomas Darnell, Lancaster, Ohio, 11/3/18.
Frederick Shelton Biesecker, Greenville, S.C., 9/1/18.
Hughes Critz Swain, Afton, Va., 10/25/18.
Joseph O. Bunting Jr., Alexandria, Va., 11/7/18.
William B. Meyberg, Tulsa, Okla., 10/15/18.
William F. Keehne Jr., Roanoke, Va., 7/14/18.
Robert Watts, Parksley, Va., 10/20/18.
John F. Nelson Jr., Charleston, W.Va., 12/9/18.
Dean M. Carter, Oldsmar, Fla., 10/24/18.
William Eason Price Jr., Burlington, N.C., 10/30/18.
Robert Lee Gray, Avon Park, Fla., 8/5/18.
William Carney Gibbs, Virginia Beach, Va., 8/17/18.
John H. Travis, Asheville, N.C., 6/21/18.
Arthur H. Garst Jr., Roanoke, Va., 11/18/18.
Dale Rogers Gregory, Tarpon Springs, Fla., 8/27/18.
Donald E. Bishop, Lebanon, Tenn., 9/5/18.
Franklin D. Brown, Penhook, Va., 8/24/18.
Robert P. Burwell, Greensboro, N.C., 11/6/18.
Irwin Miller, Vonore, Tenn., 11/22/18.
Emil Anthony Viola, Chesapeake, Va., 11/24/18.
James Olin Ferguson, Colonial Heights, Va., 8/29/18.
James Luther Towe, Round Hill, Va., 10/24/18.
Terry C. Drew, Fredericksburg, Va., 7/24/18.
James William Shiner, Max Meadows, Va., 11/18/18.
Frank Gordon Christian Jr., Raleigh, N.C., 6/24/18.
John William Roller, Edinburg, Va., 8/3/18.
Roger Lee Williams, Free Union, Va., 9/22/18.
Edward M. Soucek, Radford, Va., 9/19/18.
Roy Barrett, Danville, Va., 11/24/18.
Frank Blair Bishop III, Richmond, Va., 9/27/18.
Frederick Winford Finney, Vinton, Va., 10/13/18.
Ralph G. Powers, Forest, Va., 11/27/18.
Felicia Mohaupt Cornwell, Ogden, Utah, 8/20/18.
John T. Smith Jr., Lady Lake, Fla., 8/20/18.
Robert Paul Colby, Richmond, Va., 11/11/18.
Louie T. Hargett, Raleigh, N.C., 7/12/18.
Theodore G. Brna, Cary, N.C., 8/20/18.
Jonas Ryland Bryant, Parrish, Fla., 8/8/18.
Bernard F. Schmidt, Butler, Pa., 10/8/18.
James Herbert Sharrett, Portsmouth, Va., 10/15/18.
R. Eugene Nix, Clinton, S.C., 10/11/18.
Thomas Branch Worsham Jr., Edgefield, S.C., 7/13/18.
Raleigh Williamson Carter Jr., Asheboro, N.C., 10/7/18.
1960s
Ronald M. Coiner Sr., Lexington, N.C., 8/3/18.
Richard L. Crane, Stuart, Fla., 10/20/18.
Chase Morison Adkins Jr., Sandston, Va., 9/24/18.
John L. Hood, Chesapeake, Va., 7/13/18.
Robert Edwin McCubbin, Dublin, Ohio, 10/13/18.
Merrill D. Jackson, Cary, N.C., 11/24/18.
John William Hayes III, Fort Wayne, Ind., 10/6/18.
Wayne C. Garst, Salem, Va., 10/23/18.
Samuel Epes Moncure Jr., Commerce, Ga., 10/9/18.
Robert Sherril Myers, Gray, Tenn., 9/21/18.
Thomas Glenn Wilson, Radford, Va., 11/23/18.
Lloyd Alven Ward, Abingdon, Va., 7/23/18.
Archie Lee Hankins Jr., Cary, N.C., 10/11/18.
James Randolph Steele, Fredericksburg, Va., 8/17/18.
George Michael Grimsley, Smithfield, Va., 12/10/18.
Robert Bruce Rowland, Winchester, Va., 7/21/18.
Neal Lawson Lowe, Summerville, S.C., 8/7/18.
Charles Strother Jr., Delaplane, Va., 6/19/18.
Philip Michael Argabright, Salem, Va., 10/23/18.
Roy Norman Young, Newfoundland, Canada, 10/25/18.
John Harry Merold, Oak Hill, Va., 5/16/18.
Samuel Hodges McGhee III, Roanoke, Va., 9/6/18.
Rita Sutherland Purdy, Waco, Texas, 11/24/18.
McGinnis James Perkins, Natural Bridge, Va., 8/8/18.
Versille Haig Farmer, Leesburg, Va., 10/28/18.
George Elliott Fox, Englewood, Fla., 7/2/18.
Russell Lawrence Henderson, Alexandria, Va., 8/26/18.
Robert Lee Talley III, Charlottesville, Va., 11/5/18.
James Leonard Felton Jr., Raleigh, N.C., 10/15/18.
Joseph William Hatcher, The Villages, Fla., 6/22/18.
Edward Lisle Shackelford Jr., Kansas City, Mo., 7/15/18.
Douglas Ronald Fahl, Leesburg, Va., 8/13/18.
Robert Scott Southard, Boydton, Va., 1/29/18.
Frank Epperly Correll, Lexington, Va., 6/22/18.
Stuart Dale Carter, Buchanan, Va., 10/26/18.
William Edmund Alzheimer, Sandia Park, N.M., 11/1/18.
Philip Walton England, Richmond, Va., 1/5/17.
John Sidney Lewis, Fairbanks, Alaska, 11/25/18.
Ernest Early Muntzing, Atlanta, Ga., 12/5/18.
Joe David Stumbo, Sarasota, Fla., 9/5/18.
Howard Benson Dexter, Williamsburg, Va., 8/30/18.
Richard H. Bickford Jr., Lottsburg, Va., 8/1/18.
Aaron Rudolph Flinchum, Hiwassee, Va., 9/9/18.
Stanley Christian Harris Sr., Richmond, Va., 8/24/18.
Lester Owen Seal, Elkton, Va., 9/2/18.
Walter Thomas Blackshear, Smithfield, Va., 10/18/18.
Robert Harrison Kirby Jr., Finksburg, Md., 10/15/18.
Charles Leslie Walstrom Cumb, Foreside, Maine, 8/5/18.
Thomas Thaxton Baber, Charlottesville, Va., 10/15/18.
J. Pat Green, Roanoke, Va., 10/4/18.
Bruce Allan McFadden, Hillsboro, Ore., 7/26/18.
Thomas Gordon Himes, Princeton, W.Va., 8/18/18.
Phil Harold Dawson, Stephens City, Va., 8/1/18.
1970s
Marlene “Micky” Fast Jester, Virginia Beach, Va., 9/28/18.
Larry William L. Roach, Victoria, Va., 10/3/18.
William C. Perrow, Spout Spring, Va., 8/5/18.
Susan Layne Redinger Hart, Dumfries, Va., 10/17/18.
Kenneth J. Robertson, Williamsburg, Va., 8/16/18.
Bruce Elliott Allder, Berryville, Va., 8/8/18.
Joseph Ward Moore, Bristol, Va., 8/10/18.
Claire Cassell Harmon, High Point, N.C., 7/11/18.
Mark David Kavanaugh, Alexandria, Va., 6/20/18.
Ronald Burr Melvin, Newport News, Va., 7/27/18.
Larry Alan Doll, Austin, Texas, 7/21/18.
James Arthur Thompson, Eureka, Mont., 7/18/18.
John Vincent De Rito, Charleston, W.Va., 11/7/18.
Robert Steven Johnson, Deep Run, N.C., 8/9/18.
Mike Joseph M. Cassell, Wytheville, Va., 11/9/18.
Richard L. Eddings, Altamonte Springs, Fla., 8/3/18.
Steven W. Brisbane, Reston, Va., 7/23/18.
Joseph T. Martin, Orwigsburg, Pa., 10/12/18.
James Arthur Marshall Jr., Lynchburg, Va., 9/22/18.
William Samuel Hooten Jr., Peachtree City, Ga., 11/17/18.
Gary Scott Saunders, Madison Heights, Va., 11/27/18.
Debra Roop Smrchek, Longs, S.C., 7/10/18.
John Bryan Hodges, Blacksburg, Va., 11/27/18.
Robert Eugene Clarke Jr., Mount Airy, Md., 9/30/18.
Brian Patrick Clark, Midlothian, Va., 7/15/18.
Randy Richard Andrew Provan, Los Alamos, N.M., 10/30/18.
William Jennings King Jr., Culpeper, Va., 8/27/18.
John Edward Colville, Oviedo, Fla., 10/18/18.
Gordon Danny Jonas, Max Meadows, Va., 10/27/18.
William Edward Thornton, Bena, Va., 6/26/18.
George Glenn Yeatts, Huddleston, Va., 6/23/18.
Abigail R. Mumy Bacon, Mount Pleasant, S.C., 7/17/18.
Ricardo B. Jacquez, Chico, Calif., 10/18/18.
Dennis Russell Throckmorton, Wytheville, Va., 8/23/18.
Edith Houston Carter, Blacksburg, Va., 10/14/18.
Raymond Donald Hayden Jr., Shippensburg, Pa., 10/20/18.
Robert Albert Ackerman, Hood River, Ore., 11/1/18.
David Lee Mays, Kennesaw, Ga., 10/14/18.
Leonard Harold Session, Christiansburg, Va., 10/16/18.
Dean Simmons Powell, Marathon, Fla., 5/26/18.
Shannon Stinson Smith, Lebanon, Va., 10/22/18.
Thomas Curd Yancey, Waynesboro, Va., 7/27/18.
Edward Charles Polhamus Jr., Danville, Va., 10/13/18.
William B. Bartelloni, Santa Fe, N.M., 8/4/18.
David Blodgett Jones, Fernandina, Fla., 10/14/18.
Bruce Gerard Hansen, Pembroke, Va., 9/6/18.
David Bruce Lyons, Monroe, Conn., 6/3/18.
Tamara Rumsey Wittel, Williamsburg, Va., 9/24/18.
Bruce Hilton Skeeter, Midway, Ky., 7/11/18.
Thomas Edward Lawall, Centreville, Va., 8/28/18.
Joseph Leak Haymore, Knoxville, Tenn., 11/26/18.
John Howard Zechman Jr., Danville, Va., 9/29/18.
John Edward Sewell Jr., Rockville, Md., 7/23/18.
1980s
Kevin Carl Widmayer, Friday Harbor, Wash., 9/13/18.
Leslie Page Douthat, Glen Allen, Va., 10/20/18.
Terry Lee Kibler, Woodstock, Va., 11/26/18.
Dean Jeffery Marrs, Abingdon, Va., 11/27/18.
John Bennett Quade Jr., Ashburn, Va., 8/31/18.
Richard Darrell Trigg, Rogersville, Tenn., 11/11/18.
Warren Lee Hainline, Albemarle, N.C., 7/5/18.
Richard Jay Bass, Norfolk, Va., 6/27/18.
Timothy Alan Nagle, Knoxville, Tenn., 7/28/18.
David Wayne Jennings, Falls Church, Va., 12/29/17.
Randolph K. Guthrie, Bedford, Va., 10/7/18.
Michael Earle Grandstaff II, Hickory, N.C., 9/26/18.
Caroline Meredith Brown, Norfolk, Va., 6/3/18.
Eric Leonard Ellis, Portland, Ore., 9/17/18.
William Frank Coleman, Fredericksburg, Va., 8/13/18.
Marc A. Houle, Pineville, N.C., 7/29/18.
Lance Edward Wallace, Midlothian, Va., 10/24/18.
James Langhorne Houck, Lynchburg, Va., 11/10/18.
Robert Bryan Corbitt, Roanoke, Va., 6/26/18.
Jennifer Lynne Drof, Woodbridge, Va., 11/12/18.
James Andrew Jones, Capitol Heights, Md., 7/21/18.
Robert Lynn Hash, Henrico, Va., 11/14/18.
Sean Christopher Maisey, Lanexa, Va., 11/5/18.
Christopher Aloysius Laverty, Hackettstown, N.J., 6/28/18.
Christopher James Kurtze, Midlothian, Va., 7/7/18.
Hazel Brown Marshall, Springfield, Va., 7/7/18.
Michael Scott Elmore, Rocky Mount, Va., 7/24/18.
Milan M. Jovanovic, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 10/9/18.
Grant Howard Kugler, Stafford, Va., 7/22/18.
Christian Walter Hammerle, Virginia Beach, Va., 7/29/18.
Michael Earle Grandstaff II, Hickory, N.C., 9/26/18.
1990s
Jon Eric Adams, Mooresville, N.C., 8/30/18.
Benjamin Mortimer Stout III, Wheeling, W.Va., 8/3/18.
Ronald Shawn Phillips, Bartlett, Tenn., 9/3/18.
Alan Lawrence Eisenberg, Burke, Va., 10/8/18.
William Shendow, Winchester, Va., 10/19/18.
Elizabeth Jane Kline, Woodbridge, Va., 8/15/18.
Cathy Sue Yearout, Christiansburg, Va., 11/15/18.
Sigmund Andrew Maichak, Warrenton, Va., 11/1/18.
Deanna W. Alexander, Blacksburg, Va., 8/21/18.
Paul L. West, Lancaster, Pa., 10/23/18.
Jennifer H. Sunnucks White, Chesapeake, Va., 10/26/18.
Chris Andrade Denton, Gloucester, Va., 8/14/18.
Carlos Alberto Valero, Alpharetta, Ga., 8/14/18.
Kevin Scott Corell, Forest, Va., 8/20/18.
Amy Campbell Brueckner, Overland Park, Kan., 7/12/18.
William H. Wheeler Jr., Springfield, Va., 7/26/18.
2000s
Erin Lacy Rogers, Spotsylvania, Va., 6/28/18.
Justin D. Updike, Washington, Va., 11/14/18.
Matthew P. Venturini, Woodbridge, Va., 9/10/18.
Rebecca Kay Davidson, Denver, Colo., 12/13/18.
Peter Charles Jacobson II, Virginia Beach, Va., 11/7/18.
Joseph Adam Brenneman, North Chesterfield, Va., 7/19/18.
2010s
Justin Rance Marianetti, Huntersville, N.C., 8/27/18.
David Alan Burkhard Jr., Burke, Va., 8/12/18.
James Christopher Welch, Middletown, Md., 8/8/18.
John Barry Hall, Shawsville, Va., 7/4/18.
William Lee Dewberry, Hurt, Va., 10/31/18.
Benjamin Lee Friar, Concord, Va., 11/28/18.
Brenda Elizabeth Mcintyre-Odoms, Newport News, Va., 11/7/18.
Sarah Joy Mitchell, Oakford, Pa., 7/8/18.
Joseph Warren Rager, Virginia Beach, Va., 8/26/18.
OBITUARIES
Faculty/Staff
Edward R. Clayton, professor emeritus of business information technology, died Feb. 10.
Charles “Jack” Dudley, an associate professor of sociology who later served as director of the University Honors program, died March 25.
Richard Eisler, a professor in the Department of Psychology since 1977, died April 23.
William H. Mason ’71, M.S. ’72, Ph.D. ’75, professor emeritus of aerospace and ocean engineering in the College of Engineering, died March 27.
Timothy Mills, who served on Virginia Tech’s buildings and grounds team for 30 years, died March 10.
J. Donald Rimstidt, professor emeritus of geochemistry and former department head in the College of Science’s Department of Geosciences, died March 24.
Robert James Tracy, a longtime professor of geology and a former chair of the Department of Geosciences in the College of Science, died Jan. 6.
Alumni Leaders
Robert Barnes Delano ’44, of Warsaw, Virginia, died Dec. 5, 2017. Delano’s career included dairy and grain farming as well as serving as president of both the Virginia and American Farm Bureau federations. He was a member of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors from 1994-1998 and was inducted into the William Preston Society in 2002, serving as president from 2008 through 2010. Delano received a Virginia Tech Distinguished Achievement Award in 1991 and an Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 2000.
Thomas L. Phillips ’47, M.S. ’47, Weston, Massachusetts, died Jan. 9. The former chairman and CEO of Raytheon, Phillips was recognized with the University Distinguished Alumni Award in 1987.