TAPS Rappahannock district Virginia Pharmacists Association and of the Mending Hearts Chapter 119 in Newport News, and founding president of Chapter 135, Harrisonburg. He was a scoutmaster and a Boy Scouts of America district training chairman. He is survived by his wife, Janet James Timberlake of Harrisonburg; a son, John M. Timberlake of Harrisonburg; and a sister, Betty Timberlake Trippett of Larchmont, New York.
Frank Everts Jr. ’48B Frank Everts Jr. ’48B of Dallas, Texas, died on July 9, 2008. He was 81. Everts attended VMI for two years. He was a member of Band Company. A veteran of World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-46 in the South Pacific on the U.S.S. Natoma Bay. He was 17 years old at the time. Everts held a bachelor of arts degree in business from Hardin-Simmons University, a private Baptist university in Abilene, Texas. He was a percussionist in the school’s band. A third generation jeweler, he was president of A. A. Everts Jewelers, which was established by his grandfather in 1897. He was a graduate Gemologist and the first Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers in the Southwest. He taught appraising for the American Gem Society, SMU and other venues nationally. As the chairman of the AGS appraisal committee from 1975-81, he was instrumental in developing appraisal standards still used today. He was a past president of the Texas Jewelers Association and a past board member of the Retail Jewelers of America. He served often in many State and Federal District Courts as an accredited expert witness in his field. He was a 33 degree Mason and a member of the Masons for over 50 years, working with the Scottish Rite and as a Shrine and Highlander band member. He was active with the Salesmanship Club, the Visiting Nurse Association Board, the Boy Scouts and the Dallas Rotary Club, which he served as president in 1976. He taught Bible study at the Austin Street Center. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Boleman Everts of Dallas; six children, Roselyn Morris, Christine Hornbuckle and her husband, John, Frank Everts III and his wife, Susan, Robert D’Orazio and his wife, Gail, Victoria England and her husband, J.D., and Sandra D’Orazio; and eight grandchildren, Ruth and Rachel Morris, Laura and John Spence Hornbuckle, Hillary, Rosemary and Emily Everts, and Patricia England.
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of La Jolla, California, James Al Slayton of Edmond, Oklahoma, John B. Slayton of Palestine, Texas, and Robin Slayton Graham of Houston, Texas; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and a sister, Maggie Glauber of Alexandria, Virginia. His first wife, to whom he was married in 1950, was the late Barbara Broome Slayton. Following her death in 1972, he was married to Wanda Morris Slayton from 1972-96. His Slayton ’48B cousin was the late George J. Helms ’34.
Ofus Lee Slayton Jr. ’48B of Lynchburg, Virginia, died on July 21, 2008. He was 80 and was serving as the class of 1948B’s class agent at the time of his death. Slayton matriculated from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and held a bachelor of arts degree in liberal arts from VMI, where he was the D Company captain. He was a member of the Hop and Floor Committee for three years and of the Cadet newspaper staff and the track team for two years. He served in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command from 1948-55, attaining the rank of captain. His service included a combat tour in Korea. He was awarded one Air Medal. In 1955 he became a geological scout for Amerada Petroleum Company in Midland, Texas. He joined Getty Oil Company in land management in 1957, rising to the position of district manager in Houston before joining Texas Crude Companies as vice president in 1980. He was active in the American Association of Petroleum Landmen, serving as a director from 1974-76 as well as in state and local chapters. He was president of the Michigan Association of Petroleum Landmen from 1974-76. A lifetime member of the Episcopal Church, he was active at parish, diocesan and national levels. He served as senior warden at the Church of the Resurrection in Oklahoma City at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Lansing, Michigan, and at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Bon Secour, Alabama. He served the Diocese of Texas from 1977-99 in a variety of capacities, including as a member on the board of directors of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, as a trustee of the St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation and a trustee of the Bishop Quin Foundation for nine years, six as president. He was a stewardship consultant for the Dioceses of Texas (1982-99) and the Office of Congregational Stewardship of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. for 12 years. In this capacity, he assisted more than 200 congregations in building programs’ capitol fund drives and developing faithful giving programs. He is survived by his wife, Laura Lee Johnson Slayton of Lynchburg, a former high school sweetheart to whom he was married in 2002; four children, Lee Ann Slayton
Kenneth W. Carrington ’50B Kenneth Wilson Carrington ’50B, M.D., of Salem, North Carolina, died on July 11, 2008. He was 79. Carrington matriculated from York, Pennsylvania, and held a bachelor of science degree in pre-med from VMI, from which he graduated with distinction. He was a member of the football team for four years. He served briefly in the U.S. Air Force before attending the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1954. He was a resident in neurological surgery at the University of Michigan and a Fellow in neurological surgery at Harvard Medical School. He practiced neurological surgery in Augusta, Georgia, from 1961-77. He was a member of the American Medical Association and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, as well as of the Holy Trinity Church in Clemson, South Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Priscilla Whitt Carrington of Salem; his children, Karen Elaine Carrington of Shanghai, China, Debra Ann Carter and her husband, David, of Boca Raton, Florida, Krista Lee Gillam, DVM, and her husband, Brad, of Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Kenneth Wilson Carrington Jr. and his wife, Allyson, of Charleston, South Carolina, and Troy Wade Carrington and Casey Nicole Carrington, both of Los Angeles, California; and eight grandchildren, Dax White and his wife, Kathleen, Harrison Carter, Matthew Carter, Carrington Carter, Rachel Berkley, Reid Gillam, Kenneth Wilson Carrington III and Beckett Carrington.
Stephen M. Evans Jr. ’50B Steven Morris Evans Jr. ’50B of Garland, Texas, died on May 22, 2008. He was 78. Evans matriculated from Shreveport, Louisiana, and attended VMI for one year. He then transferred to Vanderbilt University, from which he graduated with a degree in mechanical
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