IMEMORIAM served several years on its Com-
tion and the Clark County Bar
puter Use by Lawyers Committee. He was also a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and a former president of the Bookfellows Club. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church and had been secretary of the Parish Vestry. Survivors are his wile, Eleanor Todd Patty; a son, Claiboume W. Patty, Jr.. of Little Rock: and, two grandchildren. 0
Association.
H. W. "Bill" McMillan
Claiboume Watkins Patty, Sr. Claiboume Watkins Patty, Sf., aged 82, of Little Rock. died Thursday, October 10, 1985. Patty had practiced law in Little Rock since 1948. He was the son of Lewis D. and Mildred Watkins Patty and a member of a pioneer Arkansas family. Patty was a descendant of Isaac Watkins. an early Little Rock settler; the great-grandson of George Claibourne Watkins. chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1854: and a grandson of Dr. Claiboume Watkins, an early Little Rock physician and surgeon.
Patty was a graduate of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn..
H. W. "Bill" McMillan. aged 76, of Arkadelphia. died Saturday, November 9. 1985. He was the senior member of the McMillan, Turner and McCorkle law firm in Arkadelphia. The firm was founded in 1859 by his grandfather. McMillan was graduated in 1930 from Ouachita Baptist College and attended the University of Texas Law School. He accepted a teaching position and coaching job in Norphlet (Union County) before transferring in 1931 to Arkadelphia. McMillan was admitted to the bar in 1934. A Hope native, McMillan was honored in 1984 by the Arkansas Bar Association for 50 years of practice. He was also the recipient of the Association's Outstanding Lawyer Award. He was a former chair and
member of the Association's Insurance Law Committee and a former member of its Professional
where be earned a degree in min-
Ethics and Grievances. Clients'
ing engineering and had worked for the Aluminum Company of
Security Fund and Prepaid Legal Services Committees. McMillan was also a member of the American Judicature Society, the Board of Editors of the Texas Law Review. the American College of Probate Counsel. the American Bar Association. the Southwest Arkansas Bar Associa-
America.
He entered law practice with his father alter receiving a law degree from the Arkansas Law School. Patty was a 37-year member of the Arkansas Bar Association and 16/Arkansas Lawyer/January 1986
He was executive secretary of the Ouachita River Valley Association from 1945 until 1950 and was president of the Association from 1951 to 1962. He worked for the development of DeGray Dam on the Caddo River and was active in Arkadelphia and Clark County's industrial development. McMillan was president of the Arkadelphia Rotary Club in 1962. a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary fnternational and president of the Arkadelphia Chamber of Commerce in 1972. He was named a distinguished alumnus of Ouachita Baptist University and was a member of the OBU Development Council. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees at Arkansas College in Batesville. He was a trustee of the Ross Foundation and a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where he served as an elder and a deacon. Survivors are his wife. Elizabeth McMillan of Arkadelphia: two sons, Toney Daniel McMillan of Arkadelphia and David Williams McMillan of Asheville, Tenn.: a daughter, Elizabeth McMillan of Columbia. Tenn.; three sisters. Leila Shaw of Eugene, Ore., and Frances Elledge and Juanita Barnett, both of Arkadelphia: and two grandchildren. 0
Lawrence Branch Burrow, II. Lawrence Branch Burrow. Jf.. aged 61. of Little Rock, died Tuesday, October 22. 1985. A consultant with the Wright. Lindsey and Jennings law firm, Burrow was retired in 1982 as