Alumni news Jack Clingenpeel ‘48 of Lee’s Summit, Mo., died April 19, 2008. Jack was one of many in the Clingenpeel family to attend Central Methodist throughout the decades. His family supported two Hall of Sponsors scholarships: the Ginn Family Memorial Scholarship and the C. A. Clingenpeel Scholarship. Clingenpeel Gymnasium was named in honor of his father, Clarence “Coach Cling,” class of 1915, who taught and coached at Central in the 1910s and 1920s. Jack was born in Boonville and grew up in Fayette. He served as a flight instructor in the Navy in World War II and the Korean War. As a reservist at the Olathe Naval Air Station, he flew the F-9F Cougar. In 1947, he married Joanne Warren. They raised five children in Lee’s Summit. He was a member of the Lee’s Summit Park Board and for most of his career worked in the family trucking business. Jack and his wife also owned Wild Birds Unlimited of Kansas City. He is survived by a sister, Katherine Sue (Clingenpeel) Lay ‘47, his five children and their spouses, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Ruth (Boeger) Whitaker ‘38 of Kingsland, Texas, died Dec. 17, 2006. Catherine (Babcock) Coghill ‘39 of Germantown, Ohio, died Sept. 4, 2006. Rebecca (Gayer) Henderson ‘39 of Cockeysville, Md., died Feb. 18, 2005. Julius Marquette ‘39 of Sacramento, Calif., died June 3, 2006.
Charles Bohrer ‘43 of Alexandria, Va., died Feb. 21, 2007. Donald Cook ‘43 of Wichita, Kan., died March 26, 2006. Wanda (McCollum) Keithley ‘43 of Columbia, Mo., died April 6, 2006. Margaret (Robison) Orebaugh ‘43 of Panorama Village, Texas, died Dec. 4, 2007. Mary Jane “Mickey” (Young) Shepherd ‘43 of Kansas City, Mo., died July 30, 2007. George Sweitzer x43 of Harrisonville, Mo., died May 1, 2008. Priscilla (Opp) Teel ‘43 of San Antonio, Texas, died Jan. 2, 2008. Eileen (Newman) Gose ‘44 of Fayette, Mo., died Jan. 23, 2008. Louise (White) Kaiser x44 of Palmyra, Mo., died Dec. 5, 2007. Freeman Kidwell ‘44 of Deming, N.M., died Jan. 15, 2007. Helen (Eye) Magill x44 of Arlington, Va., died July 12, 2007. Patricia (Donaldson) Walters x44 of Independence, Mo., died Jan. 14, 2008. Ray Vanderpool ‘44 and V-12 of Tyler, Texas has passed away.
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William Francis ‘44 of Houston, Texas, died in 2007.
Edward Burke ‘40 of Rockford, Ill., died July 24, 2003.
Jean “Penny” (Penn) Bernier ‘45 of North St. Paul, Minn., died Aug. 23, 2007.
Walter Jackson ‘40 of Miami, Okla., died Jan. 7, 2007. Charles Whitmer ‘40 of Atlanta, Ga., died Oct. 24, 2007. Earl Brownfield x41 of Boonville, Mo., died March 1, 2008. Mary (Sipple) Law ‘41 of Las Vegas, Nev., died March 13, 2005. George Rayburn x41 of Lenexa, Kan., died March 6, 2008. Robert Barry x42 of Lenexa, Kan., died Feb. 4, 2008. Earl Craig ‘42 of Memphis, Mo., died March 23, 2008. Carolyn (Wilkerson) Powell ‘42 of Chapel Hill, N.C., died Oct. 6, 2007. Wayne Swinney ‘42 of Tallahassee, Fla., died Feb. 26, 2008. Roger Williams ‘42 of Kenilworth, Ill., died Nov. 23, 2007.
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Maurice Anglen ‘43 of Brentwood, Mo., died June 2, 2006.
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Margie (Fizer) Cochran x50 of Fayette, Mo., died April 27, 2008. Margie was married to Mitch Cochran, alumnus from the class of 1951 and professor emeritus of CMU. She recently served as one of the honorary co-chairs for the Campaign for Eagle Athletics. She was a well known educator throughout the state of Missouri and spent many years teaching in Fayette. Much admired by her students and her peers, she retired after 35 years in public education. She was a member of Paul H. Linn Memorial United Methodist Church, actively involved in the Howard County Retired Teachers Association, the Fayette Book Club, Delta Kappa Gamma, and served on the board of the Fayette Senior Center. She is survived by many loving relatives including one son, Mitchell Jr., and two daughters, Rebecca (Cochran) Huntsman ‘73 and Mickey Cochran ‘76.
Donald Preuss ‘57 of Nichols Hills, Okla., died March 11, 2008. Dr. Preuss worked as a medical professional in Oklahoma City for more than 35 years, most recently as a hospitalist for Integris/ Baptist Hospital. After graduating from Central he received further training at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago, Ill. Joining the Navy in 1961, Preuss served at many naval hospitals and aboard the USS Repose, a hospital ship, in Vietnam. He was passionate about medicine, his family, church, music, the German language, animals, and old cars. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Mona, a son, a daughter, and several other family members. A Hall of Sponsors scholarship was established by him in 1983 and its first recipient will be named in the fall of 2009. Harold Clotworthy ‘45 of Bella Vista, Ark., died Oct. 9, 2007. Clinton Hayes ‘45 of Clinton, Mo., died in Feb. 2008. James Fagan ‘45 of Benton, Kan., died June 18, 2006. William Foley ‘45 of Scottsdale, Ariz., died June 28, 2006. Mildred (Boettner) Sharp ‘45 of St. Joseph, Mo., died Jan. 21, 2008. Allen Berger ‘47 of St, Louis, Mo., died Aug. 14, 2007. Clement Blakney x47 and V-12 of Carson City, Nev., died June 8, 2007. James Graham ‘47 and V-12 of Chadds Ford, Pa., died Dec. 7, 2007. Jennings Grisamore ‘47 of Macon, Ga., died Nov. 3, 2006. Robert C. Lee ‘47 of Glen Ellyn, Ill., died Feb. 3, 2008. David Pegues III ‘48 of Columbia, Mo., died Aug. 25, 2006. Helen “Lucy” (Bates) Wood ‘48 of Park Rapids, Minn., died Nov. 6, 2007. Carolyn (Evans) Crow ‘49 of Lee’s Summit, Mo., died May 31, 2004. Robert Heineman ‘49 of Richland, Va., died Jan. 19, 2007. Rodney Hjelle ‘49 of Barrett, Minn., died in Oct. 2006. John Watson ‘49 of Kansas City North, Mo., died Dec. 24, 2007.
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