Dee J. Kelly, 1929-2015
Accomplished Fort Worth attorney was a problem solver, unifier and namesake of TCU’s alumni center.
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Carlos Gonzalez ’63 (MS) ’67 (Ph.D.)
1933-2015
Carlos “Chuck” Gonzalez ’63 (MS) ’67 (Ph.D.), a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve in Vietnam, defended one of the first doctoral dissertations in chemistry at TCU. He died in January after battling lung cancer. The research chemist and professor was the son of Spanish immigrants. He grew up in Manhattan, near the edge of
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Howard Payne ’48
1925-2015
Donning a velvet purple suit and hat every December, Howard Payne was TCU’s Santa Claus, spreading cheer before finals, to a generation of Horned Frogs from the 1980s to 2010s. He died in June at the age of 90. Alongside wife Mildred Erby Payne, who portrayed Mrs. Claus, he made his annual entrance at the
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Allene Jones ’63
1933-2015
In September 1962, Allene Parks Jones was a registered nurse. She was working at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in south Fort Worth when she learned TCU planned to integrate. Dressed in a short-sleeved yellow dress and heels the color of straw, 29-year-old Jones was older than most students. While a few stole glances
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Feature obit: Dennis Henry Burkley ’68 (MFA ’75)
1945-2013
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Feature obit: Oscar Howard Stewart ’80 (MEd ’83)
1933-2013
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