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Alfred
Owen Aldridge, 89,
died Jan. 29 at his Champaign home. Aldridge, a professor emeritus
of comparative literature, taught at the UI from 1967 to 1986.
Memorials: A. Owen Aldridge Prize, Comparative Literature Studies,
Department of Comparative Literature, 311 Burrowes Building, Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA 16802.
Etta Mae Arntzen, 81,
died Feb. 7 at The Carle Arbours, Savoy. Arntzen worked as an
associate professor of art at the UI.
Candice E. Brokoski,
54, died Feb. 5 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Brokoski
had worked as a laboratory assistant in the department of crop
sciences since 1989. Memorials: Urbana Free Library.
T. Emerson Cammack, 85,
died Feb. 5 at The Carle Arbours, Savoy. Cammack was an economics
professor at the UI from 1948 to 1985.
Zane Bland Carothers,
80, died Feb. 3 at Heartland Health Care Center, Paxton. Carothers
was a professor of plant biology at the UI for 22 years, retiring
in 1991 as professor emeritus. Memorials: UI’s Allerton
Park or Heartland Health Care Center.
Glen E. Curtiss, 70,
died Jan. 29 at White River Medical Center, Batesville, Ark. Curtiss
worked at the UI for 12 years, mostly as an assistant steam operator
for the physical plant, from 1951 to 1963.
Betty Frith,
78, died Feb. 3 at The Carle Arbours, Savoy. Frith worked in food
service in the Housing Division at the UI for 10 years, retiring
in 1970.
Merle B. Karnes, 88,
died Feb. 3 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Karnes was a
professor of special education at the UI, retiring in 1993. Memorials:
Samuel A. Kirk Endowment, College of Education, Suite 38, MC-708.
Rado Leneck, 84,
died Jan. 27 in New York. Leneck taught Slavic languages and literature
at the UI from 1962 to 1965.
Gill-Chin Lim, 58,
died Feb. 9 in East Lansing, Mich. Lim worked at the UI from 1985
until 1991. He was a professor of urban and regional planning
and in the Institute for Government and Public Affairs.
Elizabeth Irene Lister, 74,
died Feb. 4 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. She worked at
the UI for 15 years, retiring in 1993. She continued as a duplicating
machine operator as extra help at the UI until 2002.
Otha Paul Miller, 83,
died Feb. 11 at Heartland Nursing Center, Casey. Miller was a
building service worker for the Division of Operation and Maintenance
for 19 years, retiring in 1983. Memorial: Heartland Nursing Center,
P.O. Box 10, Casey, IL 62420.
John E. Pearson, 90,
died Feb. 1 at Wood County Hospital in Bowling Green, Ohio. Pearson
worked as a professor of general engineering, nuclear engineering,
and environmental engineering in the department of civil engineering
at the UI. He retired in 1974 after 35 years. Memorials: First
Christian Church Endowment Fund.
Donald Harvey Skadden, 80,
died Feb. 8 in his Sanford, N.C. home. Skadden worked on the UI
accounting faculty from 1955 to 1973. He also was associate dean
of the College of Commerce. Memorials: Skadden Family Scholarship
Fund at St. James United Methodist Church, 504 N. Vermilion St.,
Danville, IL 61832.
Bruce Taylor Jr.,
84, died Jan. 29 at Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Taylor
worked at the UI for 34 years retiring in 1982 as a laborer-electrician
foreman. Memorials: Elks’ Crippled Children’s Fund.
Patrick Kay Watson,
80, died Feb. 4 at The Carle Arbours, Savoy. Watson worked as
a machinist for the UI for 38 years, retiring in 1986.
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