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In Memoriam Kathryn Leucht Angsten ’61 (master’s)
87, died Feb. 14 in Kansas City. She was a retired elementary teacher from the St. Joseph School District. Arch Beach ’49
88, died April 18 in Holts Summit. He had played professional baseball with the St. Louis Browns and was a retired educator, serving as a high school football, basketball, baseball and track coach, principal and superintendent in various towns across northwest Missouri. He also was a high school sports referee for many years and worked for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as area supervisor and director of Title One programs. Arthur Buckingham Jr. ’57
74, died April 9 in St. Joseph. He was an executive with Sears, Coast to Coast Stores and Checker Automotive and was president of White’s Home and Auto Stores in Wichita Falls, Texas. After retirement, he worked part-time for GladdenStamey Funeral Home. He also was one of TKE’s founders at Northwest. Kathryn Carlson Campbell ’66
of Shenandoah, Iowa, died April 28. She was a retired elementary teacher and had taught in Omaha, Neb., Denver, Colo., and in the Essex (Iowa) School District. Odis Cate ’60
72, died Jan. 28. He retired from Lehigh Portland Cement Co. in Wichita, Kan.
Amber Cremeens ’96
34, died Feb. 17 in Wheat Ridge, Colo. She was employed at Charles River Laboratories. Clarice DeShazer Clemons
96, of Grain Valley, died Jan. 29. She was a teacher and served as recorder of deeds in Nodaway County for many years before retiring in 1973. Bill Coulter ’50
80, of Lexington, died April 11. He was a teacher and coach in Dexter, Iowa, and Maryville. He was a teacher, coach and counselor for 15 years at Wentworth Military Academy and was the elementary and middle school principal in the Richmond School District. He retired as an academic adviser at the University of Central Missouri and a consultant at Wentworth.
She then worked for Show-Me Real Estate in Plattsburg.
Richard Moyer ’42
88, died Sept. 25 in McMinnville, Ore. He was a teacher and had played the piano at Hillside Manor for the past 20 years.
Weldon Hogan ’50
83, of Salina, Kan., died April 18. He was a corporate pilot for Morrison Grain.
Mary “Vicky” Sanders Oxley ’84
Carol Jorgenson
45, died June 27, 2007, in Germany. She worked 20 years for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
82, died Jan. 30 in Maryville. He was the audiovisual and cable television technician at Northwest for 20 years.
Gary Randall ’66
Robert “RALPH” Kurtright ’48
94, died Jan. 22 in Albany. He taught industrial arts and physical education, coached football, basketball and track and was C.O.E. coordinator and high school principal in the Albany R-III School District.
64, died Feb. 2 in Carlsbad, Calif. He was president and CEO of Flowers by Hi/Lo in Carlsbad. J.R. Russell ’55
67, died Feb. 27 in Olathe, Kan. He practiced law in Wyandotte County, Kan., for more than 40 years.
Let us know If you learn of the death of a Northwest graduate, please submit in writing or via news clipping the name of the deceased (and maiden name, if appropriate), year(s) of graduation from Northwest, date of death, age, city of death, city of residence and a brief listing of accomplishments. In addition, submit your relationship to the deceased and your daytime telephone number
Etta Mae Dougan Langley ’58 (Horace Mann)
Virginia Kelly Bean Schrunk ’40
69, died April 17 in Maryville. She was a babysitter for many years.
90, died March 3 in Independence. She retired after 30 years of teaching.
Richard Ferris ’43
Jack Lasley ’61
August Steeve ’50
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83, died Jan. 27 in Portland, Ore. He was the promotional art director for U.S. West Direct, retiring in 1986. He also was a commercial pilot.
died Aug. 26, 2008. He was Northwest’s dean of men from 1961 to 1966. He taught government and economics and coached high school football, basketball and track in the Grossmont School District in Bonita, Calif.
84, of Hopkins, died Feb. 20. After teaching for two years, he returned to farming.
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Michael Gates ’72, ’73
61, died Feb. 4 in Liberty. He was director of real estate and finances for Dickinson Theatres. Pete Greve ’74
57, died March 21 in Omaha, Neb. He was a member of the TKE professional staff from 1975 to 1980. He then was a sales associate with Safeguard Business Systems. Shirley Golden Harless ’74
60, of Plattsburg, died March 14. She taught in the Lathrop School District, retiring in 2004.
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JOAnn Stamm Marion
69, died April 16 in Maryville. She taught at Horace Mann Lab School for 37 years and retired from Northwest as an associate professor of education. Glenda Rice McCleave ’57
73, died Jan. 1 in Harrisonville. She was a substitute teacher in the Harrisonville School District for many years.
Ruth Denny Turner ’35
97, died Feb. 20 in St. Joseph. She was an elementary teacher in the St. Joseph School District, retiring in 1975.
to the Office of University Advancement, 800 University Dr., Maryville,
alumni@nwmissouri.edu. No pictures please. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.
VIRGIE CAROL TWOMBLY WATSON ’64
66, died Dec. 17 in Overland Park, Kan. She was a homemaker and had taught two years in the St. Joseph School District. Jim Williams III ’70, ’73
60, died Jan. 31 in St. Charles. He was a teacher and coach for 33 years.
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