Howard Odell Morris, Jr. ’65 died in Clear Lake, Texas, on September 14, 2005. Howard moved to Winston-Salem with his parents in 1947. He graduated from Reynolds High School in 1961 and was active in football, basketball, and track. He was a National Merit Scholar and graduated from Davidson College in 1965. He served with the U.S. Army for a brief time and then returned to the University of Florida Law School in 1968. He practiced law in Jacksonville, Fla., and presented cases before the Supreme Court. In 1981, he moved to Houston, Texas, to pursue other business interests. He is survived by his parents, Nita and Howard Morris of 804 Chancy Lane; his four children, Amy M. Curry and her husband, Alan Curry, Robert Morris and Sally Morris of Atlanta, Ga. and Michael Morris of Richmond, Va.; his brother, Wade and his children, Lindsay and Mitchell; his uncle, Charles Bracey and aunt, Dot Bracey of Aberden; his aunt, Jo Ann Bracey of Fayetteville; and numerous cousins in the Piedmont area.
Tim Kimrey ’65
Tim Kimrey ’65 died peacefully in his Chapel Hill home on February 22 at the age of 63. After graduating from Davidson, he attended Union Theological Seminary in New York, earning a master of divinity degree in 1971. He spent a sabbatical year at Union Theological Seminary and Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, earning a master of sacred theology degree in Biblical studies in 1980. Tim was ordained in 1970 as a Minister of Word and Sacrament by the former Granville Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, US. He served intern positions at various Presbyterian churches in New York and at Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church and Davie Street United Presbyterian Church in Raleigh. He served a stated supply position at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Durham and served as pastor at the Church of Reconciliation in Chapel Hill. He honorably retired as a member of New Hope Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1991. Following his ministry, he devoted himself to art and to promoting house concerts through Afternoon Nap Productions. Tim served various positions with the Durham-based Low Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina, and then as director of the Experimental Housing Allowance Program of the Durham County Department of Social Services. He served two terms as chairperson of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Ministers’ Association. He was appointed by the Orange County Commissioners to serve as the first Chairperson of the Orange County Human Relations Commission and received the commission’s first annual Pauli Murray Human Rights Award in 1990. He also served on the advisory board of Manbites Dog Theater in Durham. Tim is survived by his daughter, Erin Kimrey, 2417 Shenandoah Ave., Durham, N.C. 2704-4257, and her partner, Jen Snider; his uncle, Willis Kimrey, of Huntsville, Ala.; cousins, Bill Kimrey, Joie Black and David Kimrey, all of Alabama; his sister, Elizabeth Kimrey of Raleigh.
Ronald E. Rudolph ’65
Ronald E. Rudolph passed on April 12, 2004. No additional information is available at this time.
Austin Kellett Letson, Jr. ’65
Austin Kellett Letson, Jr. passed on August 27, 2003. No additional information is available at this time.
Austin K. Letson, Jr. ’65
Austin K. Letson, Jr. , husband of Lynn Gregory Letson, died August 27, 2003 in Charleston, SC. Friends and relatives are invited to attend The Requiem Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at eleven o’clock in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. A visitation will be held Monday in the Church between five and seven o’clock. Mr. Letson was born June 28, 1943 in Atlanta, GA, the son of Austin Kellett Letson, Sr. and Sue Simpson Letson. He was a graduate of Davidson College. He served in Vietnam as Captain in the US Army Medical Service Corps from 1968-1970. He retired from the Army Reserve in 2000 as a Lt. Colonel. He served as President and CEO of Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center from 1972-1985. He served as Vice President of Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham. He served two years in the State Department and at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He served from 1985-1990 as President and CEO of Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC. In 1991, he became President and CEO of the Carolinas Hospital network and regional facilities based in Charlotte, NC. He served as interim CEO of Norton Health Care System based in Louisville, KY, and, in 2000, was named CEO of the Aga Khan Health Services East Africa, with hospitals in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. He is survived by his wife, Lynn Gregory Letson of Birmingham; three children, Austin Kellett Letson, III of Asheville, NC, Jackson Goodwin Smith of Charleston, SC, and Carter Smith Bond of Anchorage, Alaska; and two grandchildren, Austin Letson, IV and Leila Bond. Memorials may be made to St. Stephen’s Church, 67 Anson Street, Charleston, SC 29401, or Hospice of Charleston, 3896 Leeds Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405. Arrangements by J. Henry Stuhr, Inc., Charleston, SC.Published in The Birmingham News on Aug. 31, 2003.