IN memorium ROBERT VERNON RILEY SR. (’53)—73, Newhebron; self-employed in the timber, cattle, and oil and gas businesses, Dec. 18, 2004. JOHNNIE SARTOR (’53, M.S. ’60, PH.D. ’74)—80, Starkville; retired head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Mississippi State, retired brigadier general in the Mississippi Army National Guard, and World War II veteran, Dec. 12, 2004. WILL HOYT OWEN JR. (’54, M.S. ’58)—72, Starkville; retired assistant professor of accounting at Mississippi State, Nov. 20, 2004. WILMER C. DAWS JR. (’55)—71, DeKalb; retired president of Kemper County Farm and Building Supply, Sept. 11, 2004. IRENE R. MAYFIELD (’55, PH.D. ’73)—89, Jackson; retired principal of McLeod Elementary School, Oct. 9, 2004. DAVID L. LANGFORD (’57)—69, Tupelo; retired travel editor for The Associated Press, Oct. 12, 2004. HUGH E. ADAMS (’58)—Southaven; retired field representative and agent for Mill Mutuals, Nov. 16, 2004. WENTON ROBERT WALKER (’59, M.S. ’62)—73, Ridgeland; retired president of Diversified Technology for Ergon Inc. and MSU Foundation board member, Nov. 28, 2004. ANDREW JOHN BOND SR. (’60, M.S. ’62)—73, Florence, Ala.; retired assistant director of placement at the University of Georgia and former dean of students at Mississippi State, Nov. 24, 2004. JAMES NEWTON CROWE (’60)—75, Kosciusko; CEO of Central Mississippi Office Supply and Korean War veteran, Oct. 13, 2004. CHARLES WALDEN (’64, ED.S. ’69)—66, Booneville; former state senator and businessman. GEORGE D. VAN DEVENDER II (’68)—59, Meridian; owner of Van Construction Co., Oct. 19, 2004. KENNETH F. WISSNER (’68)—58, Richmond Hill, Ga.; systems analyst for VerSIGN in Savannah, Ga., Oct. 22, 2004. 48
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ALFRED M. SEARS JR. (’71)—55, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; owner of Wyatt B. Hodges Properties, July 29, 2004. BRENDA DENSON MELOHN (’72)— 53, Brandon; associate vice chancellor for administrative affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Oct. 17, 2004. SUZY MARTIN HERNANDEZ (’73)— 52, Blum, Texas; teacher and basketball coach, Aug. 20, 2004. CHARLES B. GRIMM JR. (’78)— Dallas, Texas; golf course superintendent, Oct. 3, 2004. MARTHA MAGEE ROYALTY (’78)— 50, Madison; owner of Graphic Reproductions printing company, Sept. 16, 2004. KATHLEEN WILHITE MANSFIELD (’84)—Creve Coeur, Mo.; assistant city administrator.
WILLIAM DAVID HICKEY (’85)— 53, Cedar Park, Texas; electronic engineer for Motorola Semiconductor, Dec. 24, 2004. CHARLES R. BLOUNT (’89)—56, Madison; health administrator for state Department of Health, Oct. 13, 2004. HELEN WILKERSON SKELTON (’90)—61, Winterville; former high school and elementary librarian and English teacher at MSU, Sept. 11, 2004. LANCE ALLAN MONROE (’92)—34, Huntsville, Ala.; medical sales representative for Guidant Corp., Sept. 23, 2004. KEN SMITH (’98)—30, Terry; engineer for Milwaukee Electric Tools, Aug. 7, 2004. STEPHANIE RENEE JAMES (’02, M.S. ’04)—26, Starkville; mathematics teacher at Pickens (Ala.) High School, Oct. 22, 2004.
Fred Howard Bounds (attended)— 88, Lucedale; retired U.S. Army colonel and World War II and Vietnam War veteran, Sept. 29, 2004. Willis Terry Hinton Jr. (attended)— 69, Jackson; retired sales representative, Sept. 7, 2004. Joseph Samuel McNair (attended)—74, Magee; retired captain in the Mississippi Army National Guard, Sept. 5, 2004.
Department of History at Mississippi State and World War II veteran, Nov. 9, 2004. Ann E. Wiltrout (former employee)— Starkville; professor emerita of foreign languages at Mississippi State and the university’s 1998 Outstanding Humanist of the Year. Frances Rice Bartran Windham (former employee)—Starkville; retired human nutrition research scientist at Mississippi State, Oct. 6, 2004.
Timothy Pendleton McCullough Jr. (former employee)—93, Springfield, Va.; retired research physicist, former instructor of physics at Mississippi State, and World War II veteran, Nov. 19, 2004. William Franklin Miller (former employee)—72, Starkville; retired forestry professor and director of the Mississippi Remote Sensing Facility at Mississippi State, Nov. 5, 2004. Glover Moore (former employee)— 93, Birmingham, Ala.; retired history professor and former head of the
Daniel “Kirk” Fordice (friend)—70, Madison; former governor of Mississippi from 1992 to 2000, Sept. 7, 2004. Vadie Lorene LeCroy Gholston (friend)—83, Starkville; homemaker and gardener, Sept. 14, 2004. Hortense Pachter Leveck (friend)— 95, Pensacola, Fla.; former piano teacher, Sept. 5, 2004. Louie Glynn Wright (friend)—80, Quitman; former Quitman mayor, funeral director, and World War II veteran, Aug. 5, 2004.