Obituaries
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June Miley, 91, died October 5. She worked at Redlands Junior High in California from 1955 to 1967 as a librarian and an English teacher, before transferring to Moore Junior High for three years as a librarian. Finally she worked at Redlands Senior High until her retirement in 1979.
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Dr. Odie Henderson Tolbert Jr., 72, the first African American librarian for Memphis (Tenn.) State University, died September 22.
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Merle Pickett, 108, who served as a teacher, librarian, and assistant principal in the Manitowoc School District in Wisconsin for 43 years, died October 7.
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Ferne Beverly Hyman, 84, died June 26. Ferne worked at various universities around the county. In 1968, Ferne became reference librarian of Fondren Library at Rice University in Houston, where she served for three decades.
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Margaret Jane Bruff Lord, 92, a teacher and librarian for 35 years in Washington state schools in Peshastin, Snohomish, Bellingham, Pullman, and Arlington, died July 18. Margaret was also a member of the Washington Library Media Association.
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Mary Betty Eager, 97, former librarian at Lulu Walker Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona, died August 1.
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Richard Hupman, 98, librarian of the U.S. Senate until his retirement in 1973 and a member of the Law Librarians Society of Washington, D.C., died July 26.
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Mary Lucille Fines, 95, former librarian at Anaconda (Mont.) High School, died July 25.
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Frances Morrison, 92, died August 14. Morrison served as children’s librarian, head of reference, assistant chief librarian, and eventually chief librarian of Saskatoon Public Library in Saskatchewan, Canada, until her retirement in 1980.
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Leo I. Chang, 83, died August 24. Chang worked at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County in Ohio from 1954–1966. Then he became professor of Chinese languages and librarian at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, until his retirement in 1998.
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Barbara Jeanne Brown, 69, university librarian at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, from 1985–2003, died August 27.
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Dorothy Boone Dismuke, 80, former reference librarian at the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Public Library from 1967-1987, died August 11.