Category: 1964

Dan lived a life marked by devotion, integrity, and service — to his family, his community, and his country.

Born to Frances and D.D. “Jack” Adams in Oklahoma City, Dan attended Linwood Elementary, Taft Middle School, and Northwest Classen High School before continuing his education at Davidson College. At Davidson, he participated in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) for four years, played both soccer and baseball, and contributed cartoons to The Davidsonian.

He went on to earn his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he met Mary Elizabeth Burleson. They married after he accepted his commission in the United States Army. His initial post in the Military Intelligence Office in Omaha, Nebraska, was cut short when he was promoted to Captain and deployed to Vietnam as a counterintelligence advisor. He was awarded the Bronze Star.

Following his military service, Dan built a distinguished career in banking and finance. He served as Vice President at Liberty National Bank; Senior Vice President, Treasurer, and Board Member at Mid-Continent Life; and Vice President and Investment Officer at American Fidelity. His favorite jobs remained far earlier ones — working the scoreboard and press box roof for the Oklahoma City Indians, and serving as a soda jerk at Drexel Pharmacy, where he claimed to have invented the double-patty smash burger.

Dan was deeply involved in professional and civic life. He was a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the American Bar Association; the American Council of Life Insurers; the Income Property Advisory Council of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America; and served as Chairman of the Life Company Mortgage and Real Estate Council. He also served as Chairman of the Westminster School Board of Trustees; on the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, Last Frontier Council; as Committee Chair for Troop 193; Treasurer and Board Member of Rotary Club 29; Elder and Trustee at First Presbyterian Church; President of Oklahoma City Beautiful; a member of the Sunbeam Family Services Financial Committee; and on the Advisory Committee for Transcultural Family Counseling.

Above all, Dan was devoted to and dearly loved his wife, Beth; his sons, Dan and Scott; and his mother, Frances. He found great joy in coaching soccer and supporting his sons in all of their pursuits. He had a lifelong love of drawing, photography, filming home movies, and even creating animation. He also held a broad appreciation for music, humor, and the outdoors.

Dan was kind and genuine with everyone he met. He treated others with dignity and respect and had a rare ability to make people feel seen and special.

He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Beth. He will be dearly missed by his son Dan and wife Carolyn; son Scott and wife Aimee; grandchildren Elissa, Zach, and Dane; and many cherished in-laws and dear friends. His legacy of quiet strength and steady love lives on in all who knew him.

A graveside service will be held for family and close friends at Rose Hill Cemetery on March 9th at 11am. A celebration of life memorial will follow at 12:30pm in the John Nichols Room at The Petroleum Club, Oklahoma City.

Joel David Morrisett passed away at the age of 83 from complications due to Parkinson’s Disease. Joel was born on May 2, 1942, to Stephen and Mary Morrisett in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The third of four children, “Joey” loved growing up on a farm in the small town of Boiling Springs, raising cattle and spending his days outside. After graduating from Shelby High School with academic honors and as an Eagle Scout, Joel attended Davidson College where he majored in Chemistry. While attending Davidson, Joel was set up on a blind date with Mary Myers, who was a senior at Myers Park High School. They began dating. Both attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where Mary studied teaching while Joel pursued a PhD in Organic Chemistry. After graduation, they married and enjoyed 58 years of love and joy together. After serving as a captain in the U.S. Army at the Edgewood Arsenal Army base in Maryland for two years, Joel and Mary moved to Palo Alto, California where Joel was a post-doctoral fellow under the mentorship of Harden McConnell at Stanford University. Three years and two children later, Joel moved his family to Houston, Texas where he began a fulfilling career as a biochemist in the Atherosclerosis Section of the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center. His biomedical research on heart disease supported through National Institute of Health grants resulted in hundreds of peer-reviewed publications that addressed multiple aspects of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors. Notably, he refined a diagnostic technique, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for the non-invasive diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease. Joel was also an educator and, in this capacity, he trained many graduate students and fellows, some of which now hold positions of leadership at institutions around the world. Joel was also an institutional leader, serving as director of a research training grant from the National Institutes of Health and as Director of Research in the Atherosclerosis Section. The Morrisetts purchased a home in the Southgate neighborhood, which was so close that Joel could bike to work. Joel and Mary decided that Houston was where they would put down roots and make their lifetime home. Through the years, their family grew to seven children. When he wasn’t performing lab experiments or spending time at home with his wife and children, you would most likely find Joel one block away from home at 6409 Greenbriar serving his church. He started each day with his Bible open, seeking what God had to tell him for that day. He was an active deacon at Rice Temple Baptist Church and enjoyed playing trombone in the church orchestra, serving on various committees, and changing out the weekly message on the church sign. He wrote letters to inmates through the Prison Fellowship Ministry for years and even kept correspondence and mentoring with young men after they were released. Throughout his time at Baylor, Joel enjoyed traveling to Russia, Germany, Japan, Austria, and Nigeria. Joel was adventurous; he loved snow skiing, running (including in two marathons), and whitewater rafting. After serving on BCM staff for 40 years, Joel retired to Professor Emeritus status. After retirement, Joel served through several Christian humanitarian service organizations including Living Water, Habitat for Humanity, and Samaritan’s Purse. Joel is survived by his wife, Mary; his seven children Elizabeth Smith (Brian), Samuel (Jennifer), Sarah Bartlett (Jeff), Daniel (Kerry), Miriam Sperring (Ray), Paul (Kristen), and Philip (Emily); and his twenty-two grandchildren Abigail Reitmeyer (Andrew), Lilly Smith, Charlotte Smith, Melissa Morrisett, Micah Morrisett, Susannah Morrisett, Ellie Bartlett, Anna Bartlett, Keeley Bartlett, Luke Bartlett, Selah Morrisett, Joel Morrisett, Will Sperring, Charlie Sperring, Cate Sperring, John Sperring, Weston Morrisett, Grant Morrisett, Thomas Morrisett, Caroline Morrisett, Lauren Morrisett, and Mary Charlotte Morrisett. To celebrate his life, a Memorial Service will be held at Rice Temple Baptist Church, 6409 Greenbriar Street, Houston Texas on Sunday, December 28 at 3:00 p.m.

Edward Hampton Rudert of Ithaca, NY died peacefully on November 28, 2025. He was born November 12, 1942, the son of Ernest and Doris Rudert, in Rome, GA, where he lived most of his life until moving to Ithaca in 2006 to be near children and grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Nancy McBride Rudert; their daughters Angela Rudert (Zach Shulman) of Ithaca, Kathy Rudert (Christian McKeithen) of Ithaca and Karen Rudert of Portland, OR; grandchildren Kayla Shulman, Nicole Rudert, Kieran Shulman and Tegan Sims; brother and sister-in-law Bob and Sally Rudert. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother John Rudert.

Edward was a retired CPA, an Army veteran and a graduate of Darlington School, Davidson College and Georgia State University. He was deeply involved in church, charitable, civic and professional activities, accepting leadership positions in many such organizations. However, he hoped to be best remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend.

A memorial service will be planned for a later date, in Rome, depending on family travel considerations. In lieu of flowers, anyone wishing to make a donation in his memory is encouraged to consider the Davies Homeless Shelters (daviesshelter.com), which Edward was proud to have served as chair of its founding board, or Hospicare (https://www.hospicare.org/). Arrangements have been entrusted to Bangs Funeral Home Ithaca, NY online condolences can be left at www.bangsfuneralhome.com

Thomas Ralph Agnew was born August 6, 1942, the only child of Homer R. Agnew and Emma Ralph Agnew in Ocala, Florida. He died November 3, 2025 as a result of complications from a traumatic brain injury in 2022. He is survived by his wife Greta and daughter Anna.
Tom was an avid athlete and scholar from childhood on. He played short stop and was a pitcher for the Little League Baseball Team and was selected to play on the All Star Team at age 9. He was a member of Boy Scout Troup 72 and at age 12, he became the youngest Eagle Scout in Florida. He was on the golf team in high school and in college. He played trumpet in the high school band, served as President of his senior class at Ocala High, and was in ROTC. He graduated with honors and received a land grant to Davidson College, where he was in Sigma Chi fraternity. After receiving his degree in political science, he went to Army Intelligence Training and was deployed to Vietnam, a service of which he was always proud. Following his 2 year service, he moved to Atlanta and joined First Union Bank, staying through several acquisitions until his retirement from Wells Fargo in 2005. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Atlanta Law School in 1970 and a Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University in 1972.
He was a member of the Atlanta Athletic Club for 56 years where he enjoyed golfing and dining. He was an avid reader and enjoyed the ASO and Spivey Hall. He loved dogs and never met a dog that did not love him. His first dog, Tuck, followed him to school and waited to walk home with him. There were articles in the Ocala paper about Tom and his beloved dog following him throughout Ocala!
A Celebration of life service will be held on Sunday, December 7, 2025 at the Atlanta Athletic Club from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Shriner’s Hospital for Children, Tunnels to Towers, Vietnam Veterans of America, the Humane Society, or your favorite charity.
The family expresses sincere gratitude to the staff at Alto John’s Creek for their loving care and respect to Tom, and to Family Hospice for keeping him comfortable in his final days.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements by Crowell Brothers Peachtree Chapel Funeral Home, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Norcross/Peachtree Corners, GA 30092. (770)448-5757.

John Ivor Hollenbeck, “Jack” was born in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from Upper Arlington High School where he was a star swimmer and track athlete for the Golden Bears. He went on to attend Davidson College in North Carolina where he joined the Sigma Xi fraternity, continued athletics, served in the ROTC and met his wife Caren Camicia (a student at Queens College in Charlotte).

They would return to Columbus where he would attend medical school at The Ohio State University and become interested in Surgery. He entered the General Surgery program at the University of Florida where he would develop a love for his surgical career and create many lifelong friends. After 2 years in the residency program at UF and shortly after the birth of their first child Cathy, Jack was called to serve in Vietnam in 1969. He spent over a year treating many trauma victims from the war. Later, he and Caren returned to Gainesville where their second child Scott was born in 1972, while Jack was finishing his training. Jack and Caren then moved back to North Carolina where Jack started his career with the Charlotte Surgical Group.

Jack was the consummate general surgeon performing a variety of services in his busy practice in the Charlotte community. Still, he would have the most impact in his career utilizing the skills he learned in Vietnam to manage trauma patients. He was critical in establishing helicopter service to Carolinas Medical Center and updating the trauma centers in Charlotte to manage a higher volume of more severely injured patients. He also served as the lead racetrack surgeon for the Charlotte Motor Speedway and the team surgeon for the Charlotte Hornets for a number of years in the 1980’s and 90’s. Jack did all this while being dedicated and involved with his family, especially his children’s extra-curricular sports activities.

He enjoyed playing golf, listening to Motown records and visiting the Rocky Mountains for skiing and fishing. He eventually retired and moved back to Gainesville with Caren where he would join the surgical faculty at UF. At the age of 70, Jack retired from surgery. He lived out his remaining 12 years with Caren in their home in Gainesville where he passed away on July 7th, 2025.

Jack is survived by his wife Caren, of Gainesville, Florida; his daughter Cathy Hollenbeck Martin and husband Dan and grandchildren Will and Audrey, of New York City; and his son Scott Thomas Hollenbeck and wife Julie and grandchildren Zeph and Charles of Charlottesville, Virginia.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made on Jack’s behalf to the Woodward Society at the University of Florida. https://surgery.med.ufl.edu/education/acute-care-surgery/woodward-society/