Donald H. Alldritt ’41, former State of Kansas auditor, past WSU Alumni Association president, Nov. 30, Wichita.
Daniel C. Bachmann, attorney at law, one of the founders of the Wichita Jazz Festival and friend of the university, Oct. 13, Wichita.
Laura Barnett, homemaker and university friend, Oct. 5, Tyler, Texas.
Elbert L. “Bert” Beard Jr. ’38, retired chief of collections for the Internal Revenue Service, Dec. 14, Wichita.
Fred A. Beaty ’48, retired attorney, Nov. 7, Duxbury, Mass.
Gerald B. Becker ’60, retired independent geologist, July 6, Wichita.
N. June Bennett ’70, retired teacher, Dec. 13, Saint Paul, Kan.
Michael T. Blasi, retired Penny Power Shopping News president and friend of the university, Oct. 24, Springfield, Mo.
Roger D. Bolt ’90, former Sheplers employee, Oct. 7, Wichita.
Russell L. Brenner ’61, retired U.S. Government clerk of the Federal Bankruptcy Court and retired City of Wichita director of administration, Oct. 22, Wichita.
William Warren Burney ’47, community leader who served in the military from 1942-44 and retired family practice physician who began practicing medicine when racial segregation divided Wichita, Oct. 8, Wichita.
John T. Carmody, theologian, author, retired senior research fellow in the department of religious studies at Santa Clara University and friend of the university, Sept. 26, 1995, Santa Clara, Calif.
Gerald W. “Jerry” Carr fs ’51, retired Intrust Bank vice president of marketing and former interim co-director of Botanica, Oct. 16, Wichita.
Rudy R. Chambre ’61/61/61, retired Delta Airlines pilot, Sept. 20, Las Vegas, Nev.
Paul G. Chrisman, retired Wichita State University professor emeritus of speech and director of financial aid, Oct. 10, Wichita.
Elda F. Cunningham ’57/64, retired elementary school teacher and community volunteer, Oct. 10, Wichita.
Erin M. Daley ’86/87/88, attorney, Oct. 8, Wichita.
James W. “Bill” Davidson ’41, former Boeing employee and retired claims supervisor for Aetna Life Insurance Co., Oct. 5, Kansas City, Mo.
Elbert Murray DeForest, retired Vulcan chemical vice president, chemical industry consultant and university friend, Oct. 2, Wichita.
Sandra L. “Sandy” (Kelderhouse) Duck ’81/88, former neo-natal nurse practitioner, Sept. 18, Enid, Okla.
Clifford F. Edds ’51, Underwriting Services of the South life insurance sales company owner, Nov. 12, Edmond, Okla.
James C. Eller, retired WSU library associate professor, Dec. 2, Wichita.
Wauneta E. Engler ’63, retired elementary school teacher, Sept. 18, El Dorado, Kan.
Sandra J. (Beck) Flynne ’81, adjunct professor at the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tenn., and associate provost and associate professor in education leadership at Murray State University, Murray, Ky., Nov. 30, Murray, Ky.
Constance Ione (West) Fort ’46, retired teacher, Oct. 21, Wichita.
Coleen K. (Dreher) Friedel ’58/71, former English teacher, coordinator at the Kansas Elks Training Center and the Institute of Logopedics, both in Wichita, and mediator, Nov. 3, Wichita.
Jeannette P. Garton, homemaker and friend of the university, Oct. 15, Benton, Kan.
Jimmy R. Gautier ’57, retired Gautier John Deere Dealership owner, Oct. 22, Lyons, Kan.
Hazel (Thompson) Gavitt ’31, retired library assistant, Aug. 5, Escondido, Calif.
Harold W. Hogan ’72/76, artist, Oct. 9, Lawrence, Kan.
Thelma L. (Parish) Huffmon ’64/70, retired school and piano teacher, Oct. 29, Wichita.
Eva Lee “Evie” Hufford, former special education teacher, former Newman University School of Education faculty member and university friend, Oct. 11, Wichita.
John R. Hughes Jr., retired Kansas Turnpike Authority toll booth collector and friend of the university, Oct. 26, Winfield, Kan.
Katherine A. Johnson-Meier ’85, substitute teacher, caregiver and former directory assistance operator, Sept. 25, Wichita.
Chester “Red” Jones, retired Beech Aircraft worker and friend of the university, Sept. 15, Wichita.
Janet C. (Conrad) Jenkins ’79/92, retired public health nurse, Sept. 26, Wichita.
Leroy King fs ’86, founder and chairman of King Construction Co., Sept. 16, Hesston, Kan.
Jay P. Koons, retired Kraft foods representative and university friend, Oct. 15, Wichita.
Marilyn L. Krager, WSU athletics business office administrative assistant, Sept. 28, Wichita.
John G. Lafond ’78, former Tavares, Fla., police chief, instructor of criminal justice at the University of Kansas and insurance fraud investigator for the Florida Department of Insurance, May 10, Tavares, Fla.
Mary P. (Yingling) Lamar ’48, homemaker, Nov. 15, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Lynda C. (Zuercher) Lambert ’75, Sedgwick County Juvenile Detention Center case manager, Sept. 20, Wichita.
William E. “Bill” Larsen ’44, retired director of medical education, Trinity Lutheran Hospital, Oct. 23, Leawood, Kan.
Buster B. “Bus” Lassen ’52, retired Columbian TecTank salesman, Nov. 23, Parsons, Kan.
Richard W. “Dick” Linn ’55, retired Professional Engineering Consultants civil engineer and City of Wichita engineer, Nov. 10, Wichita.
Harold W. Linscheid, retired WSU mathematics professor and former mathematics department head at Southwestern State College, Weatherford, Okla., Dec. 4, Wichita.
Harriet H. (Howell) Little ’48, retired Boeing Wichita chief of operations analysis, Oct. 22, Alpine, Texas.
Jack R. Lohman ’78, former rancher, retired consulting hydrologist and real estate agent with the Great Plains Land Co., Sept. 1, Sedan, Kan.
George A. London ’42, retired security guard, Dec. 14, Coffeyville, Kan.
Carol Lowe, farmer, oilfield worker and friend of the university, Nov. 3, Winfield, Kan.
Bettie L. Magruder ’58, former Wichita Eagle-Beacon women’s health reporter and editor, and owner of Phoenix Publications, Sept. 24, Wichita.
Leslie Richard Marks ’52, former teacher and music director and retired director for instructional media at Emporia State University, Oct. 22, Emporia, Kan.
Bertha E. Mayhue ’58, retired Via Christi-St. Francis dietician, Sept. 27, Wichita.
David W. McCall ’50, retired director of chemical research, AT&T Bell Labs, June 5, Far Hills, N.J.
James S. “Jim” McCluggage ’69, sales manager, Gas Compressors Inc., Nov. 1, Douglass, Kan.
Marjean Davies (Spencer) McCune ’48, retired executive secretary, Oct. 17, Wichita.
Naomi (Raines) McKenzie ’32, retired teacher, Sept. 22, Hamilton, Kan.
Donald D. McRoberts ’31/33, retired radiologist, July 12, Lewiston, Idaho.
Ann Louise (Woodman) Meahen ’79, clinical supervisor of the Nuero Critical Care Unit at Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital and former director of aquatics programs at the ymca, Sept. 25, Wichita.
Mary Elizabeth (Elder) Mouser ’37, homemaker and retired teacher, Nov. 7, Wichita.
Roy J. Payne, retired U.S. Army American Military History rotc instructor and university friend, Nov. 1, Wichita.
Robert J. “Bobby Joe” Pinkerton ’50, retired U.S. Army colonel, whose tours of duty included assignments with the 509th Airborne Infantry near Mainz, Germany; the Studies and Observation Group, Military Assistance Command in Vietnam; and the 8th Special Forces Group Airborne in Fort Gulick, Canal Zone, Panama, Oct. 15, Norman, Okla.
Paul J. Preston ’43, retired physician, Apr. 23, Cheyenne, Wy.
Ruth P. Priboth, homemaker and friend of the university, Oct. 22, Wichita.
Nancy L. (Baugh) Prosser ’51, homemaker, Oct. 25, Lawrence, Kan.
Jan K. Purcell ’78/82/83, artist, May 30, Wichita.
Jack D. Rahm, friend of the university, Oct. 10, Wichita.
William E. “Bill” Sheridan III ’73, Raytheon Aircraft Co. crew chief, system analyst, jig builder, Oct. 23, Wichita.
Daniel Conlee “Dan” Smith III ’53, World War II veteran serving in the U.S. Army in the Pacific, former Wichita Union Stockyards vice president and retired Boeing Wichita engineer, Oct. 3, Andover, Kan.
Elmer E. “Smitty” Smith, retired Equitable Life of Iowa district agent and friend of the university, Oct. 28, Derby, Kan.
Nadine W. Sneed fs ’75, former teacher who pursued graduate studies at Pepperdine University, the University of Southern California and WSU and who worked in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and California, where she taught bilingual children and trained student teachers, Oct. 31, Muskogee, Okla.
Lenna M. Snyder ’58, retired elementary school teacher, Nov. 3, Peck, Kan.
Avanelle Jane (Clark) Stuffing ’40, homemaker, Sept. 7, Des Moines, Wash.
Dale M. Stucky, senior partner at the Wichita law firm of Fleeson, Gooing, coulson & Kitch and friend of the university, Oct. 26, Wichita.
Kristen S. (Schroeder) Swartzendruber ’87, Haysville, Kan., school superintendent, Sept. 28, Kingman, Kan.
Gladys Martha “Tag” Taggart, retired Wichita State University professor emeritus of women’s health, physical education and recreation, Oct. 12, Wichita.
Harold R. Trapp ’63/67, geologist, Nov. 16, North Newton, Kan.
Raymond H. Trobaugh, farmer and friend of the university, Oct. 1, Burden, Kan.
Milton E. Tuell, retired J.I. Case advertising and sales promotion manager in the light industrial division for North America and university friend, Oct. 15, Wichita.
Lewis M. Turner ’71, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, Nov. 2, El Dorado, Kan.
Eleanor S. (Nold) Underwood, former Wichita nightclub owner, former manager of the Serfs who was in the studio with Jimi Hendrix while he recorded Electric Ladyland and the Serfs recorded their own album, and friend of the university, Oct. 14, Los Angeles, Calif.
Marylyn VanDresser, retired City of Wichita controllers office accountant and university friend, Nov. 2, Wichita.
Dallas C. Voran, U.S. Government diplomat and university friend, Oct. 24, North Newton, Kan.
Judith A. (Bell) Weldon ’97, Kansas Children’s Service League social worker and former special needs adoption social work with Lutheran Social Services, Nov. 17, Wichita.
Thelma (Bardwell) Winn ’76, watercolor artist, retired Bank IV and Wichita State University secretary, Nov. 17, Wichita.
Donald D. Wurth ’61/61, president of First Municipal Corp., a Wichita investment and securities company, and of Wurth Enterprises, former Kansas Corporation Commission securities commissioner and former officer of the wsu Endowment Association Board of Governors, Oct. 25, Wichita.
Dan L. Zollars ’55/62, retired teacher who began his teaching career in 1956 as a navigation instructor for the U.S. Air Force and who retired in 1994 as coordinator of the division of fine arts at Shawnee Mission, Kan., High School, after 38 years of teaching choral music, conducting musical theater and coaching football in a number of public schools, Sept. 18, Overland Park, Kan.
