In Memoriam
If you are aware of any omissions or would like to submit an obituary please email alumni@fisk.edu.
The Fisk University Family celebrates the lives of the following alumni, former faculty and friends who made their transition since 2015.
1935
Mary Lee Dyson Martin - August 20, 2015
Charles Etta Owens McPeters '35
1936
William J. Arnold - September 5, 2015
1938
Samuel Washington Allen (aka Paul Vesey) - June 27, 2015
1939
Emalena J. Davis North – January 11, 2015
1941
Barbara Logan Cooke – April 2018
Nancy Phillips Stokes – January 17, 2018
1943
John E. Hall, Sr., M.D. - March 1, 2015
1946
Frank Bernard Cox, D.D.S. - September 19, 2015
Jewel Freeman Graham - November 30, 2015
Catherine A. McKenzie - March 20, 2016
Charles U. Smith, Ph.D. – April 20, 2015
Susie Ware Thomas – June 14, 2015
Vivian Hampton Tucker – April 21, 2018
1947
Gloria Johnson Darden – January 28, 2018
Regina Jackson Duncan – December 6, 2017
1948
Leon Fraser, M.D. – September 29, 2015
Jane W. Henderson – January 12, 2018
Zanobia Bracy Jefferson, mother of Robyn Jefferson Sims, class of 1976 - January 2, 2016
Arganey L. Lucas, M.D. - November 18, 2015
Mildred Collier Wray – July 11, 2018
1949
Sarah Coker Cole – May 31, 2018
Agnes D. Lattimer, J.D. - January 9, 2018
Dr. J. Deotha Malone - January 7, 2016
Frances Dancy Hooks - January 14, 2016
1950
John William Garner – October 9, 2015
1951
Charles W. Johnson (Interim President of Fisk University, 1998-1999 and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees) – February 20, 2015
Ernest Lampkins, Ph.D. - January 12, 2018
Robert J. Sellers - February 20, 2016
1952
Georgie M. Silas Dowdell – April 19, 2015
Bettye J. Gant King - February 17, 2018
Vandetta Poindexter King - December 28, 2017
1953
Josephine Aldrich Anderson - March 2018
L. Morris "Mo" Jones, MD (husband of Adrienne Lash Jones, Ph.D. '56) - August 19, 2015
Lois Jackson Gordon ’53 (mother of Joan Gordon ’77 and Catherine Gordon ’78) -December 30, 2015
1954
Dolores Creswell Allen – May 16, 2015
Peter J. A. Buchanan - November 28, 2017
Joyce Howell Young, M.D. - September 17, 2015
1955
Harold J. Crosthwaite, D.D.S. (husband of Sarah Short Austin-Crosthwaite, class of 1954) – February 22, 2015
Shirley Lee Jackson 1955 - September 2, 2016
Barbara Bailey Johnson - February 3, 2018
Roberta C. Tyson, Ed.D. - June 25, 2014
1956
Alice Freese Church - August 24, 2018
Adrienne Lash Jones, Ph.D. - August 28, 2018
Gloria Reeves Poe - July 20, 2015
Frances Wilson Sears – April 17, 2015
Dr. John S. Stone (husband of Gertrudejane Holiday Stone, class of 1956) - December 2015
Marcus O. Tucker - August 8, 2015
Frank F. Wilson III, J.D. - Mary 30, 2018
1957
John L. Fair, Sr. - March 11, 2016
Jean Harvey Lightfoot - November 16, 2017
1958
Martha A. Smith Miller – January 24, 2015
Joyce Shokes Murray - April 7, 2016
1959
Phyllis Hannah Ellis, MSW - March 11, 2016
Thomas C. Rozzell, Ph.D. - April 12, 2018 Mary Harrison Whaley, Ph.D. - February 2016
1960
Carita Berkley - May 22, 2018
Harold O. Bernard, M.D. - November 19, 2015
Julius B. Lester - January 18, 2018
Phyllis Lett Sherrill - August 3, 2015
Joyce A. Murray-Urquhart - October 2015
1961
Alma Arrington Brown - April 3, 2016
Joyce Nance Edwards - January 27, 2018
Marie F. Smith – April 2015
1962
Helen Shores Lee - July 2, 2018
Milton L. Randolph, Jr. – June 16, 2015
Orin William Rucker - July 30, 2015
Alfred Stovall, J.D. - February 18, 2018
Ernestine R. Stovall - February 8, 2018
Rhona Y. Triggs - December 27, 2017
1963
Lynn Jones Huntley - August, 30, 2015
Brenda Barbour Tucker - March 8, 2018
Franotie A. Washington - January 18, 2018
1964
Cola Earl Ashe - August 30, 2015
Harriette Bias Insignares, Ph.D.- May 10, 2015
Enoch Jones, Jr. - February 20, 2018
Jerold O. Lawson, M.D. - November 19, 2015
Julyette Matthews Marshall - November 3, 2015
Marlaina Kiner McIver – February 9, 2015
Ralph C. Reynaud, Jr. - December 18, 2017
Leon W. Shannon – Mary 27, 2015
1965
Ollice C. Holden - January 3, 2018
Thomas B. McKeel, N.D. - October 29, 2015
Valeria Sweeney - June 2, 2018
1966
Joan Wilson-Epps, Ph.D. – January 11, 2015
Bernard A. Wiggins, J.D. - February 3, 2015
1967
John F. Kilby - March 18, 2016
Gail Jackson Rowe - February 14, 2018
Joan D. Vanderpool - December 20, 2017
1968
Mei Ling Moran - April 2018
Nelda Wells Spears - March 20, 2018
1969
Judith Gibbs Carol - January 7, 2016
1970
Lee M. Thomas, Jr. (husband of Sheryl Benning Thomas, Ph.D., class of 1969) – May 26, 2015
Dr. Charles E. White - July 2015
1971
Dennis W. Miller, N.D. - August 16, 2018
1972
John Bell, Jr. - August 8, 2018
Rudolph V. McCully, M.Ed. - September 13, 2015
Lynne Harris Ware – June 13, 2015
1973
Lillian Kindle Cooper - August 16, 2018
1974
Gayle Alexis Smith Lacy - December 1, 2017
Rev. Dr. Valentino Lassiter - June 12, 2015
1975
Eddie James Boatwright (husband of Angela Boatwright ’74 and father of Alyce Boatwright ‘11) - January 18, 2016.
1976
Linda Briggs - March 20, 2015
Ricky E. Mitchell – April 2015
Deborah Phillips Russell - April 17, 2018
1977
Thomas F. Adams, M.D. – March 25, 2015
Robert A. Copeland, Jr., M.D. - April 11, 2016
Gwen Booker Jones – March 16, 2015
Eric K. Wood, Sr., D.D.S. (husband of Thomasena Myers Wood, class of 1976) – January 21, 2015
1979
Thomas Webster - June 28, 2018
1980
Dwight A. Butler - February 9, 2018
Westley J. F. Kershaw
Sheila Vaden Williams (wife of James M. Williams, Jr.. class of 1982) – April 19, 2015
Aaron E. Johns, M.D. - August 1, 2015
Karen W. Roper - September 14, 2015
1981
Aaron E. Johns, M.S. - August 1, 2015
Sheila Vaden Williams - April 19, 2015
1983
Willis E. Blackshear, Sr. - February 19, 2018
1985
Renee Lewis - March 12, 2016
Enid Harris Smith, wife of Eric Smith, class of 1985 - December 10, 2015
1994
Clarence Martin Pope III - November 10, 2015
2000
Taisha Aquila Thompson - November 11, 2017
2003
Marcellus V. Brooks - February 12, 2016
Dale I. Williams - April 2018
2016
Joseph M. Gilmore - January 2, 2018
Former Faculty, Trustees and Friends
Mrs. Evelyn Autry, Former Faculty - February 11, 2017
Julian Bond (son of Julia Washington Bond '29 and Horace Mann Bond who taught at Fisk, grandson of Fisk graduates George and Daisy Washington)
Monte Irvin, father of Pamela Irvin Fields ’64 and Patricia Irvin Gordon ’70 - January 11, 2016
Robert Banks, father of Kevin Banks, class of 1980
Carroll J. Bourg, Ph.D. (former faculty) – April 12, 2015
Lula Vaughn Brooks (long-time volunteer in the Fisk Library and widow of former instructor and Fisk faculty member, Marcellus Brooks) - June 2, 2015
Mr. Davis H. Carr, Former Trustees - December 11, 2016
Warren I. Cassidy, Jr. - May 20, 2015
Dr. Carrie Filer Davis (mother of Helen Davis Gardner, M.D. 1980 and Gina R. Davis, Esq. 1982) - October 10, 2015
Jerald Doochin (longtime supporter of Fisk University) – February 23, 2015
Mrs. Bethridge S. Egan, Former Staff - April 5, 2016
Mrs. Jane Eskind , Honorary Degree – August 4, 2016
Elnora B. Hansen (wife of Axel C. Hansen, M.D., class of 1941, deceased) – January 14, 2015
Walter Leonard, former Fisk University President - December 8, 2015
David A. Payne – July 4, 2015
Darius Louis Thieme, Ph.D. (former faculty) – February 9, 2015
Riad Nassib Yammine (Former Trustee) – June 22, 2015
If you are aware of any omissions or would like to submit an obituary please email alumni@fisk.edu.