In Memoriam

Remembering Former Alumni Board Presidents, George Miles and John McManners

George Miles (’61), and John McManners (’62), served as Sam Houston State University Alumni Association Board presidents in back-to-back years, 2006 and 2007. Under their leadership, the Alumni Association went through several major changes and Miles and McManners were extremely instrumental on many initiatives.

“This is a great loss for the SHSU alumni association, the university, and the community,” Charlie Vienne, associate vice president for alumni relations said. “Both George and John were largely responsible for protecting the name Sam Houston State University from ever being changed. Their leadership and vision certainly impacted the successful Alumni Association we are today.”

A Farewell to

• Jeanette Patrick De Fee ‘39
• Jeanette Defee ‘39
• Velma Margaret (Holidy) Higby ‘46
• Helen Joyce (Humburg) Brown ‘48
• Isla Lou (Duncan) Collins ‘48
• Anna Bess (Hackerd) Kettler ‘48
• Nanetta (Key) Becker ‘49
• Caroline Carson (Berry) Cryar ‘49 ‘55
• Harry Glenn Gresham ‘49
• Joe Haynes Kyle, Sr. ‘49
• Jackie Wiley (Welborn) Mahoney ‘49
• Laura Sue (Holloway) Perrenot ‘49
• John E. Pickelman ‘49
• Carl James Schwartz ‘49
• Martha Victoria (Hlavaty) Thomas ‘49
• Claire Jean (Click) Clapp ‘50
• Billie Dean Conner, Sr. ‘50
• Barbara Ann (Holt) Gant ‘50
• Mary Elizabeth (Conner) Hardy ‘50
• Thomas Arrel Harrelson ‘50 ‘84
• Edwin Seth Mabry ‘50
• Laura Madeline (Shepherd) McLeod ‘50
• David Samuel Nickerson ‘50 ‘53
• Mary Ella (Arnold) Adams ‘51
• Joe Edward Dominy ‘51
• Monta Jo (Seale) Dunn ‘51
• Mary Rose (Weaver) Johnson ‘51
• Joseph “Joe” John Junek, Jr. ‘51 ‘57
• Alice Dolores (Maddux) Reed ‘51 ‘69
• Dorothy Marie (Milbourn) Reuland ‘51 ‘55
• Annie Mae (Currie) Walters ‘52
• Harold Lester Farris ‘52
• Bob Riley Ham ‘52 ‘56
• Billie Joyce (Wells) Poole ‘52
• Mary Ella (West) Zycha ‘52
• James Greer Austin ‘53
• Mary Lou (Phifer) Bailey ‘53 ‘85
• Billy Bryan Bailey ‘54
• Sara Jeanne (Northrop) Clamon ‘54
• Eleanor Paxton (Smith) Garrett ‘54 ‘55
• Jack E. Harrison ‘54
• Larry Charles Kiesling, Sr. ‘54 ‘66
• James Robert Arndt ‘55
• Mary Lee Bartlett ‘55
• Saul John “Tim” Doucet ‘55
• Olen Kenneth Kolb ‘55
• Jesse Newton Stafford ‘55
• Joyce Loraine (Cline) Todd ‘55
• Clarence Henry Witt ‘55 ‘56
• Cecil Augustus Cassity ‘56
• Clarence William Engelke ‘56
• Bufford Ray Polvadore ‘56
• Sue Ellen (Madden) Smith ‘56
• James Cary Butler ‘57
• Robert Dean “Bob” Cleveland ‘57
• Ann (Lindsay) Cloud ‘57
• Thomas Franklin Davis, Jr. ‘57 ‘58
• Lela Anne (Barnes) Lackey ‘57
• Milton Ross Nevill ‘57
• Bobby Gene Prescott ‘57
• Martha (Meek) Skinner ‘57
• Joe Franklin Teague, Jr. ‘57
• Charles Philip “Doc” Akin ‘58
• Hollis Paul Behannon ‘58
• D. A. Brian, Jr. ‘58
• Robert Louis Claussen, Sr. ‘58 ‘59
• Anna May (Ann) Covell Council ‘58
• Ralph Earl Ehren ‘58
• Bobby Gene Fair ‘58
• Gloria June (Tabb) Lansford ‘58
• Charles Jackie Minter, Sr. ‘58
• James Earl Norman ‘58
• Wanda Delores (Graham) Sheram ‘58
• Nancy Marie (Cunningham) Bastian ‘59
• Carolyn Ann (Barham) Haltom ‘59
• William Crockett Heeney ‘59
• Norwood Lange ‘59
• Daniel Elias Marek ‘59
• Sidney Carl “Tony” McFarland, Jr. ‘59
• Nora Faye (Dollins) Nobles ‘59
• Claude Enloe Phillips, Jr. ‘59
• Dorothy Mildred (Ylitalo) Schmidt ‘59
• Norman Ercell Wallace, Jr. ‘59 ‘62
• Arthur Leon Bagwell ‘60
• Charlie Estrada Castro, Jr. ‘60
• Harland O. Doyle, Jr. ‘60
• Cynthia Joan (Woolverton) Fox ‘60
• Paul Glenn Franklin ‘60
• Larry Dale Galyean ‘60
• John Glyn Pou, Sr. ‘60
• Charles Arthur Robinson ‘60
• Teddy LaVerne Barclay-Pope ‘61
• James Leroy Dreyer, Sr. ‘61
• Kenneth D. Jordan USMA (Ret.) ‘61
• George Delphia Miles, Jr. ‘61
• Larry James Chaloupka, Sr. ‘62 ‘65
• Joe Allen Fullen ‘62
• Nadine Sue (Jaster) Kujawa ‘62
• John Arthur McManners USA (Ret.) ‘62
• Patricia Ann (Alexander) Murphy ‘62
• Frederick Lee Reagan ‘62
• Norma Katherine (Sowers) Rives ‘62 ‘73
• Marshall Ray Rogers ‘62
• Daniel Grady Shaw ‘62
• Glenda Ann (Sanders) Cammack ‘63
• Dan Allen Curlee ‘63
• James Rufus Hunt ‘63
• Shirley C. (Phillips) Porter ‘63
• Luanne G. (Hicks) Schmedemann ‘63
• Frederick Marrs Weinzierl ‘63
• Billy L. Williams USMC (Ret.) ‘63
• Danny Lee Atkinson ‘64 ‘74
• Monte Anson Crawford, Sr. ‘64
• Charles Edward Crim ‘64
• Allen Frederick Crooke ‘64
• Peggy Jeanette (Hahn) Harrington ‘64
• William Kenneth James ‘64
• Gordon Fowler Kellogg ‘64
• Glenn Nethery Owens ‘64
• Judy Carolyn (Williams) Richardson ‘64
• Margaret Rose Allison ‘65
• Hulon Leroy Farrell, Jr. ‘65
• Ivey Reeves Ham ‘65
• Carolyn Sue (Bledsoe) Karber ‘65
• Earl Lynn Neves ‘65 ‘70
• Bera Joan (Howard) Pettus ‘65
• Lynn Ray Pomerenke ‘65
• Jackie Dean Willingham ‘65
• Minnie Ellen (Rampy) Anderson ‘66
• James Jay Corbett ‘66 ‘76
• Dorothy Marie (Massey) Finkel ‘66
• Donna Jean (Kincheloe) Gullett ‘66
• Joan (Barrington) Schmidt ‘66 ‘68
• William Addison Tarver ‘66
• Lillian Jean (Hearne) Thompson ‘66
• Olamae (Underwood) Davis ‘67
• Darryl William Evans ‘67
• Norma Elizabeth (Caldwell) Farris ‘67
• Henry Charles Henze, Jr. ‘67
• Charles Marvin Maybin ‘67 ‘70
• Fred Robert Niccum ‘67
• James William Bock ‘68
• Cynthia Ann (White) Boenig ‘68
• Dorothy Loraine (Wied) Clayton ‘68
• Leonidas Lafayette “Butch” McMurrey, Jr. ‘68
• Rudolph Lawrence “Rudy” Mikulec ‘68
• William Bryan Shaver, Jr. ‘68
• Allen W. Sylvester, Sr. ‘68
• Joseph Leo Werner, Jr. ‘68
• James Marlin Brown ‘69
• Emily Elizabeth (Lee) Carter ‘69
• James Milton Keese ‘69
• Donna Jean (Harwood) Miller ‘69
• Ronald Althen Niederhofer ‘69
• Rodney Robert Poe ‘69
• Eleanor Florine (Calvert) Smith ‘69
• David Carl Thatcher, Sr. ‘69
• Denman Ray Watson, Jr. ‘69 ‘70
• Ronnie Royce Webb ‘69
• Minta Lue (McAninch) Wilson ‘69
• Reed Darwin Arney ‘70
• Michael O’Donnell Dunlap ‘70
• Barbara Sue (Brzozowski) Larrison ‘70
• Robert Kenneth Morrow, Jr. ‘70
• Dolores M. (Payne) Platt ‘70
• Juan Modesto Salazar ‘70
• Ronald Glen Smith ‘70
• Charles Lee Isaac, Jr. ‘71
• Curtis Charles Thompson ‘71 ‘73
• Jesse Carroll Youngblood ‘71
• Janice Carol (Hanson) Aragon ‘72
• John Michael Britt ‘72
• Carlos P. Cortez, Sr. ‘72
• Donna Fellows ‘72
• Patrick A. Geistman ‘72
• Mabel Adella Harris-Floyd ‘72 ‘76
• Jack Ernest Stork ‘72
• Linda Gale Whisenant ‘72
• Ruby Alice Johnson ‘73
• James Baldwin Jonte’ ‘73
• Judy Thurston Kent ‘73 ‘03
• Charles Edward Mooney ‘73
• Nona Pebworth ‘73
• Rebecca “Becky”
• Crout Reed ‘73 ‘78
• Oscar Floyd Shinpaugh ‘73
• Leon Layton Boone ‘74
• Mark Steven Halamicek ‘74
• James Joseph Hanley ‘74
• Grover Michael Kent ‘74 ‘74
• Brooks Streetman Lovejoy ‘74
• Stephen Gary Marshall ‘74
• John McNeill “Mac” Phillips ‘74
• Bonnie L. (Cassill) Wilkinson ‘74
• Sharon Diane (Cant) Camp ‘75
• Chung Kwon Chi ‘75
• Joy Glenn Wooley ‘75
• Tibbie Elizabeth Lynch ‘75
• Bobbie Jean (Skinner) Marshall ‘75
• Donald Wayne McQueen ‘75
• Vera Rae (Mahlmann) Parcell ‘75
• Robert Charles Vail ‘75
• Randal Gar West ‘75
• Mary Ellen Hake ‘76
• Richard Alfred Hallmark ‘76 ‘77
• Chris Evans Mabie ‘76
• Kelly Jerry Martino ‘76
• George C. “Skip” Adams ‘77
• David Luther Barrett ‘77 ‘84
• Sarah Marie Gutekunst ‘77
• Frankie L. Harper ‘77
• Glenda J. Kramer ‘77
• Donna Lois (Bludau) Nevlud ‘77
• Mary Adella Stanton ‘77
• Terry Don Willingham ‘77
• Devere Earle Braund ‘78
• David Kawonde George ‘78
• Scott Ray Gilbreath ‘78
• Jay Michael Massey ‘78
• Deanie (Roach) Merritt ‘78
• Jacquelyn Jeanne Summerlin ‘78
• James Samuel Walker ‘78
• Marc Evan Wilson ‘78
• Robert Dingler Herrington ‘79
• Vance Roland Neal ‘79
• Jose Gustavo Zambrano ‘79
• Bettye Jo (Shelton) Wakefield ‘80
• Mary Ellen (Cross) Hanke ‘81
• Susan Kay (Phillips) Hayter ‘81
• Cathy Denise (Winfrey) Louis ‘81
• Carol Ann Cooper ‘82
• Sally (Jones) Parker ‘82
• Nadine Horne ‘83
• Ronnie Lee Huegler ‘83
• Kitty (Wyble) Lindley ‘83
• Jonathan MacDonald Austin ‘84
• Bynum L. Doyle, Jr. ‘84
• Richard Dean Goebel ‘84
• Ted M. Hammett ‘84
• Marilyn Elaine Watson ‘85
• Brent Marshall Brentzel ‘86
• Chikeziri Apugo Onyekwere ‘86
• Mark Edward Kirchgessner ‘88
• Carlos Mario Alvarez ‘89
• Kristin Diane (Herren) Lester ‘89
• Donnegan “Don” Milam Willemin, II ‘90
• James Bret McCabe ‘91
• Billy Earold West, Jr. ‘91
• Michele Rene (Reaves) Brown ‘92
• Peggy Sue (Francis) Engelhardt ‘92
• Carolyn Elizabeth (Rowe) McDaniel ‘92
• Keri Lee Phillips ‘92
• Brigitte Annette Smith ‘92
• Rebecca Ann (Koos) Sullivan ‘92
• Margaret Scott Terrell ‘92
• Luther Henry Berry ‘93
• Mary “Catherine” Bradford Roland Johnson ‘93
• Kathleen Shannon Story ‘93
• Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert ‘93
• Eugene Irving Clay ‘94
• Stanley (Cresap) Mead ‘94
• Patricia Ann (Murphy) Phillips ‘97
• Thomas Lawrence Nolen, Sr. ‘98
• Kevin Andrew Estis ‘00 ‘08
• Ronald Leroy Whitlock II ‘01 ‘05
• Tina Marie (Barron) Ainsworth ‘03 ‘07 ‘11
• Laura Ann (Wilson) Dzwigalski ‘04 ‘11
• Aimee Renee Mouton ‘06
• Daryl Dean Bohls ‘07
• Lindsey Jo Donegan ‘07
• James Patrick Warkentine ‘07
• Jhoanna Marie Crawford-Schriver ‘09
• John Erik Collier ‘10
• Mary Catheryne (Holman) Naugle ‘10
• Peter Michael Gottsponer ‘11
• Matthew Allen Hill ‘11
• Blakle Rhone Subinsky ‘12
• Chance Payton Davis ‘16 ‘18
• Omari K. Adams ‘19
• Colt Winston King ‘20

2/1/22 to 6/15/22 

Heritage Magazine reports the death of alumni through the ‘In Memoriam’ section of the publication by name and graduation year without further comment. ‘In Memoriam’ features are occasionally considered for the publication to report the death of a past or present administrator, faculty member or member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors.