By Web Desk
Feb 12, 2021 5:29 PM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) An Indiana State University geology professor and his wife, who taught chemistry to incoming freshmen and nursing students, have been honored with the Donald and Marlowe Owen Memorial Scholarship.
The $25,000 endowment was established through generous contributions from family and friends.
“I wanted them to be remembered,” said Kim Mazur, the couple’s daughter. “I wanted to honor their passion for teaching and how much they cared about their students. My brother (Eric Owen) and I thought it would be a good idea to memorialize them in some way.”
Donald and Marlowe Owen met on a blind date on April Fools Day and were married for 47 years before Donald s passing in 2003. Marlowe passed last year.
Bob Hall, age 68, died as he lived; stubborn, ornery, hangry, and with a heart full of love and honor.
He made his own rules, fought authority and paved the way for his spirit to touch us all. He said his only regret in life was not writing a book, âBut, then again, probably only half a dozen of us would have read it,â he said. So, as a tribute to him, we selfishly publish what we would imagine Dad would want you to know about how he lived and loved. (Hopefully, at least seven people read it.)
It all started on March 5, 1952, in the big metropolis of Kokomo, Indiana. Bob was the firstborn to Walter J. and Betty Joan Hall (Morris). The family would be blessed again six years later by his baby sister, Kimberly Jo (Steve Earles), whom he would lovingly tease and adore for the rest of his life.
Donnie Leon Tyndall
NEWPORT NEWS Donnie Leon Tyndall, 75, passed away Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. A former resident of The Hidenwood retirement community, where he had many friends, he died in the loving care of the nurses, chaplain and staff at St. Francis Nursing Center, who provided excellent, loving care.
Born to Annie Ruth Harris of Farmville, North Carolina, and Leon Tyndall of Lenoir, North Carolina, he moved at a young age to Newport News. At Newport News High School, Donnie was a member of the Sigma Phi Delta fraternity and played number 35 on the football team. He was a devoted Typhoon. He went on to serve in the Newport News Fire Department as a paramedic, until a motorcycle accident left him a paraplegic, an event that would eventually illustrate his incredible resilience.
MCDOWELL, VA - Alvin Dwayne Harkleroad, 84 of McDowell peacefully transitioned from his earthly home in Virginia to his heavenly eternal home on January 14, 2021. At the time of his passing he was lovingly surrounded by his wife Jo-Ann, his daughter Franny Neil, and Pastor George Etling.
Dwayne was born on August 11, 1936, in Johnson City, Tennessee, a son of the late Beulah Dean Stone and Alvin Lee Harkleroad. On December 27, 1960, he married the love of his life Jo-Ann Decker in a candlelight communion service at St. Johns Methodist Church in North Springfield, Virginia.
Dwayne will be remembered as a good and faithful Christian servant. He responded to the invitation of Jesus as a pre-teen and lived a life embodied by Christian values and service. We celebrate his life; his accomplishments and the impact that he left on those that knew and loved him.