Bashford Power, ’41 January 14, 2013 Ruth (Briggs) Prosser, ’50 December 26, 2013 Mary Lou Pursiful-Petrey, ’87 February 20, 2013 Willette K. Reems, ’51 December 3, 2012 Dorothy (Peach) Reese, ’50 November 28, 2013 Martha (Bender) Reid, ’38 December 20, 2013 R. Cecil Rice, ’42 January 29, 2013 June (Chumley) Smith, MA ’73 April 26, 2013 George H. Smith, ’61 May 7, 2013 R. Brian Smith, ‘’54 June 3, 2013 Spencer M. Tate, ’07 MA October 31, 2010 Cheryl (Gibson) Tatro, ’71 December 30, 2013 Roger L. Truitt, ’65 April 13, 2012 Erle J. Vaughn, ’50 November 19, 2012
Dr. John Godfrey Mutambara, B.A. Philosophy ’65, died on October 21, 2013, of a heart attack in his native Mutambara, Zimbabwe, where he served as Chief of his village, succeeding his father and brother in the office. Dr. Mutambara first came to the U.S. on a Methodist Scholarship. After graduation, he attended Oxford University in England, and returned to Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) to study law. In that time, black Rhodesians could not practice court room law. Union classmates and Union President Dr. Mahlon Miller gathered resources to bring him back to Union and then to the University of Cincinnati. He taught at UC and earned his doctorate in British Colonial History there during a 10-year period. After earning his doctorate, he returned to Zimbabwe and settled into the Methodist Mission College at Nyadire where he fulfilled his career as department head and teaching professor. His wife, Grace, was an elementary school teacher and they had four children together. Dr. Mutambara retired to the capitol city of Harare in 2002, and was elected chief of his tribe in November 2011. He served until his death.
Rodney Von Gruenigen, ’52 January 3, 2013 Randall Wagner, ’48 May 9, 2013 Erma (Hammond) Waltz, MA ’76 August 30, 2013 Peter White, Jr, ’50 October 29, 2013 Robert B. Wildrick, ’71 March 28, 2013 James N. Wilkins, ’64 March 6, 2013 Jane (McDonald) Wilson, ’80 MA October 14, 2012 James D. Zaiser, ’73 December 10, 2012 Margarita (Vincent) Zito, ’56 May 24, 2012
IN MEMORIAM FORMER STAFF/TRUSTEES/BOARD John C. Anggelis, former Union College Trustee January 9, 2013 John Ladenburger, husband of Union College Trustee, Jeanette Ladenburger July 7, 2014 Rhenda Kay (Bonner) Mills, wife of former Union College Trustee, Doyle Mills January 17, 2013 Dr. James Edwin Parker, Jr., ’47, former Union College Trustee January 19, 2013 Dennis R. Rader, Associate Professor of Education from 1999 to 2004 February 14, 2013 Betty Stroud, Professor Emeritus of Music from 1979 to 2000 May 26, 2014 Wilma (Morris) Wilson, ’54, wife of former Union College Trustee, Dr. Benny J. Wilson March 9, 2013
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