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Philippine Liberation Campaign Ribbon, each with a battle star. Boswell graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine and completed his internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in general medicine. He practiced in De Kalb before completing a residency in ophthalmology. He was in private practice for nearly 40 years in New Orleans. Winston Carrington Lill, 1949, of Picayune, died Nov. 1, 2012. Lill was director of public relations for the city of New Orleans during the administrations of Mayors Chep Morrison and Moon Landrieu. He was the first director of Total Community Action from 1965-1970. The Rev. J. Wesley Youngblood, B.A.1949, of Ridgeland, died Jan. 4, 2013. He was a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He served as a pharmacist mate and operating room assistant onboard ships in the Pacific Theatre. He was a United Methodist minister who served churches in Duck Hill, Carrollton, Grenada, Moorhead, Eupora, Olive Branch, and Sardis and later was a chaplain at Methodist Hospitals in Memphis, where he served until retirement in 1985. He then served as minister of visitation at First United Methodist Church in Senatobia and St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church in Madison. Patricia Busby Clark, B.A. 1951, of Tupelo, died Sept. 30, 2012. She was the first administrator of the Renal Dialysis Unit at North Mississippi Medical Center. Clark later worked as administrator of the Central Dialysis Unit in Jackson until retirement. She was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church in Tupelo.
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Lacy Rees Baker, 1952, of Jackson, died Jan. 3, 2013. A graduate of Shurtleff College in Alton, Ill., Baker received a master’s degree from Mississippi College in 1971. She was a longtime teacher in the Jackson public schools. Carolyn Love Baria Johnson, B.A. 1954, of Berlin, Md., died Dec. 26, 2012. She was a long-time member of The Community Church at Ocean Pines in Berlin, Md., United Methodist Women, the Red Hat Ladies Society, Beta Sigma Phi, and CASA of the Lower Shore. She was known for her love of travel and the beach. Paul Atlee Wiggins, B.S. 1954, of Jackson, died November 30, 2012. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Jackson. George Woods Elliott, 1955, of Madison, died Jan. 10, 2013. He received a bachelor’s degree from Belhaven University. He was a general agent and belonged to the Million Dollar Round Table at Andrew Jackson Life Insurance Co. He served as a bailiff in Hinds County Chancery Court. He was a founder of Madison Ridgeland Academy, a charter member of River Bend Hunting Club in Rodney, a Madison County election commissioner, and a member of the Lions Club of Jackson. He belonged to Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison. John Reed Hubbard, B.S. 1956, of Jackson, died Oct. 4, 2012. Hubbard graduated from the School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University and the American Society of Association Executives Advanced School at the University of Santa Clara. He was executive director of the Mississippi Bankers Association for 17 years. He held senior officer positions at banks
in Jackson and Meridian and operated Hubbard Insurance Services. He served as chairman of the board of trustees for the School of Banking of the South and president of the Southern Conference of State Bankers Associations. He was active in Friends of Educational Television and Public Radio in Mississippi, the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, the Salvation Army, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Newcomen Society in North America. Thomas Herbert Naylor, B.S. 1958, of Charlotte, Vt., died Dec. 12, 2012. Naylor earned a B.S. in industrial engineering from Columbia University, an M.B.A. in quantitative business analysis from Indiana University, and a doctorate in economics from Tulane University. He was professor of economics at Duke University from 1964-1993, teaching economics, management science, and computer science. Naylor was an international management consultant, advising major corporations and governments in more than 30 countries. Naylor was executive director and founder of the L.Q.C. Lamar Society. The society’s 1972 publication, “You Can’t Eat Magnolias,” was a manifesto for change and growth in the modern South. He published more than 30 books. William C. Wall Jr., B.S. 1958, of Jackson, died Oct. 14, 2012. Wall worked for the Mississippi Highway Department for 27 years as a computer programmer and systems and procedures manager. He served as president of the Highway Exchange Engineering Program. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran. Frederick McKinney Belk Jr., 1959, of Holly Springs, died Sept. 29, 2012. A graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Law, he was an attorney