Category: 1942

Jack Wiley Westall ’42 of Asheville, died on February 10, 2006. The owner and manager of J. M. Westall Company, he attended Asheville city schools and Davidson College. His fifty years in Rotary included a term as president. The Boy Scouts of America honored him with the Silver Beaver award in 1993 for his years as outstanding volunteer and board member for the Daniel Boone Council. Mr. Westall was also a former member of the Rhododendron Brigade of Guards, Zeb Vance Debating Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Jane Westall Fox, a brother, James M. Westall ’27 and a sister, Anne Westall Paine.  Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Ann Huntington Westall; son, Jack Wiley Westall Jr. and wife, Mary Jane, of Asheville; sister, Mary Mitchell Westall Large of Augusta, Ga., granddaughters, Emily Fox Williams and husband, Alan, of Elko, Minn., Courtenay Westall Gabriel and husband, Christopher, of Atlanta and Mary Camille Westall of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; grandson, Jack Wiley Westall III of Washington, D.C.; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

William James Sexton ’42, a former Perry, Ga., city councilman and one of the founding trustees of the Westfield Schools, died November 28, 2005, in Macon, Ga. He was the chairman of Davis Oil Company. He was also a past board member of the Georgia Oilmen’s Association. He taught Sunday school at Perry United Methodist Church, and was also a member of the church’s administrative board and the church’s board of trustees. A past president of the Perry Kiwanis Club, he was also the club’s man of the year. A trustee of the Westfield Schools, he was a recipient of the school’s Heritage Award in 2002. Survivors include his wife, Billie Davis Sexton, 1411 Park Ave., Perry, Ga., 31069; four sons, Davis Cosey, William Sexton Jr., Mayo Sexton, and Colton Sexton; and seven grandchildren.

William Duncan Loy, Jr. ’42 of Charlotte, N.C., died July 26, 2005, after battling pneumonia. After graduating from Davidson College, World War II called him to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and the Alaskan Division of the Air Transport Command. The end of the war found him married to Mary Steele Hubbard, who after fifty-seven years of marriage, preceded him in death in 2000. They returned to the Steele Creek community where he was employed in the commercial division of Southern Bell. He was offered a managerial position with W.A. Buening Engraving, where he was president for ten years before retiring in 1987. An enthusiastic life member of the Queen City Optimist Club, he was presented the Distinguished President Award. An active Legionnaire for over fifty-five years, he served as commander of the Steele Creek American Legion Post 221. A lifelong member of Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, he served as deacon and elder while teaching the Bill Loy Sunday School Class for thirty-eight years. He is survived by two daughters and one son, Mary Kay Payne of Yorktown, Va., and Martha Duncan Lewkowicz of Sanford, N.C., and William Duncan Loy III, 4008 Rhodes Ave., Charlotte, N.C. 28212; a sister, Katherine Gwynn of Charlotte, N.C.; grandchildren, David Loy, Jason Loy, Ashley Lewkowicz, Michael Payne, Randy Lewkowicz; and great-grandchild, River Elizabeth.

Dr. Ernest Waddill Larkin, Jr., ’42 of Washington, N.C., died May 26, 2005. At Davidson, he was a member of the college marching band and symphonic orchestra. He received his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia and completed an internship there. He served two years as medical officer in the Army Air Corps, then completed post-graduate training in ophthalmology at Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of Tennessee–Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. He practiced eye, ear, nose, and throat medicine in Greenville, where he and his family were charter members of St. James Methodist Church. In 1957, he began an ophthalmology practice in Washington that lasted thirty-one years. He is survived by his wife of sixty-two years, Frances Crandall Roebuck Larkin, 410 Riverside Dr., Washington, N.C. 27889; his son, Dr. Ernest Waddill Larkin III ’66 and his wife, Sara Moss Larkin of Greenville; his daughter, Linda Larkin Boyer and her husband Earl Ross Boyer of Washington; four grandchildren, Rebecca Roebuck Larkin of Wiscasset, Maine, and Paul Brubeck Larkin of Bethesda, Md., Timothy Ross Boyer of Wilmington, and Amy Crandall Boyer of Raleigh; and two step-grandchildren, Dr. Sara Ashley McCowen of Chapel Hill and Christopher Andrew McCowen of Durango, Colo. His sister, Mrs. Mickey Taylor, also survives him.