IN MEMORIAM
IN MEMORIAM
Northwest extends its condolences to the families and friends of these individuals. Ronald Acord ’68, age 75, of Advance, Missouri, died July 19. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as a captain in Vietnam. After nearly a decade in logistics and manufacturing for large national companies, he launched his own industrial adhesives business and later retired from the corrugated manufacturing industry. Bob Beeson ’77, age 75, of Riverside, Iowa, died Sept. 20. He taught social studies and physical education while coaching numerous sports in Carroll, Council Bluffs, Treynor and Solon. Paul Boedeker ’60, age 83, of Maryville, died Sept. 13. He served in the U.S. Army reserves and spent 39 years as an accountant and financial analyst in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Utah before retiring with LaRoche Industries Inc. in Atlanta. Daniel Bohlken ’84, age 59, of Shawnee, Kansas, died Aug. 1. He served in the U.S. Army from 1985 to 1987 and founded a wine and spirits distributorship, Valley Beverage. Matthew Bosisio, age 68, of Seattle, died Sept. 5. He served in the U.S. Air Force and then worked as a newspaper journalist in Portland, Maine; Ruidoso, New Mexico; Roswell, New Mexico; Hays, Kansas; and Richmond, Missouri; as well as a news writer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Peoria, Illinois, and he owned The New Mexico Senior Digest in Albuquerque. He was an associate professor of journalism at Northwest from 1992 to 2005 and then at Augusta State University in Georgia before retiring.
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Dr. Patricia BowersSchultz, age 80, of Lenexa, Kansas, died July 13. She was a Northwest faculty member in music from 1985 to 2002. A coloratura soprano, she soloed on national television, toured Europe with Dave Brubeck and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and she sang in New York’s Philharmonic Hall. She also researched, wrote and performed a historical drama throughout the United States and the United Kingdom with her husband, Charles. David Catherall ’98, age 46, of Bellevue, Nebraska, died April 5. He taught music at Bellevue West High School. Maxine Christensen ’62, age 87, of Carroll, Iowa, died Oct. 12. She taught elementary school for 10 years in Ohio before returning to Iowa. Effie Moffitt Crawford ’50, age 93, of Osceola, Iowa, died July 24. She began her career as a home economics teacher at Osceola High School, where
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she taught for 41 years, retiring in 1991. She served on several boards and was honored in 1976 as Iowa’s most outstanding home economics teacher. James Davis ’56, age 91, of Overland Park, Kansas, died July 28. He served in the U.S. Air Force. He worked with the Missouri Inspections Bureau and was a property manager on the Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, which led to a 27-year career in sales and sales management with Mead Corporation. David Duvall ’74, ’76, age 68, of Maryville, died May 7. He began his career as a vocal music teacher and then taught electronics and applied physics. Beginning in 1996, he worked at Northwest for 12 years as a project manager and environmental services director. Bob Gragg ’60, age 85, of Bolckow, Missouri, died July 24. He served with the Missouri National Guard and worked for Continental Can, the state of Missouri as an inspector and Energizer Battery. He owned and operated Gragg’s Mini Mart and later DMR Plastics for 20 years. Leona Ringold Greever ’53, age 89, of Stanberry, Missouri, died Aug. 2. She taught in Hopkins and Moberly. Daryl Hane ’72, age 74, of Cameron, Missouri, died Feb. 13. He taught middle school education
