A member of the Board of Trustees of Harding University for more than 30 years, Doward Franklin Anguish, aged 77, of Shawnee, OH, died Sunday eve~ ning, October 9, 1983, in the Hocking Valley Community Hospital of a massive heart attack fo llowing an extended illness. He had been appointed to the Har~ ding Board in November , 1953. He was born in the Iron Point Community, about five miles from Shawnee, on March 29, 1906. At the age of 18, he became editor of the Perry County Tribune after graduating from high school. After two years, he left the newspaper to study journalism at Ohio State University where he served as reporter, sports editor, and then editor of the university newspaper. In 1929, he was employed by Standard Oil of Ohio where he held such important positions as Head of Sales and Director of Information. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Schultz-Lewis Youth Haven in Valparaiso, IN. He was owner and operator of Petroleum Publishing House and the Christian Leader Bookstore. He was a quiet , humble man who attempted to exemplify Christ in his life. Hi s first wife , Virginia Jaggi Anquish, died in 1975. He is survived by his second wife, Grace; three daughters: Linda Bent, Jackie Richardson, and Soni Hanson; three step daughters; five gran'd~ children, six stepgrandchildren, and 14 stepgreatgrandchildren. A member of the Board of Trustees of Harding University for 14 years and Chairman of the Board for 1971-72, James B. Ellers, aged 61, died suddenly on December 10, 1983, following a massive heart attack. Ellers was born January 6, 1922, in Nashville, TN, and was mar~ ried to the former Theresa Massey on June 14, 1946. He is survived by his wife and four children: James B. Ellers, Jr ., Fenesa Ellers Miliara, Henry John Ellers, and Sharon Ellers Anderson; and four grandchildren. After service in World War II , he attend~d Vanderbilt University and graduated magna cum laude in 1949 with the Bachelor of Engi~ neering degree. He was elected to membership in Tau Beta Pi, national honor society in engineering. He served many years as a consulting engineer and established his own engineering firm in Memphis. He was a Registered Professional Engineer in Tennessee and 47 other states and was a member of the National, Tennessee, and Memphis Societies of Professional Engineers. He served as a member of the State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners of T en~ nessee for 1966~ 73. He also served as a state senator for the 93rd General Assembly of Tennessee. Ellers was a charter member of the White Station church of Christ in Memphis. Later , he was a member of the Raleigh congregation where he was active on the Finance Committee and the Mission Committee. He also served as a member of the Board of Harding Academy of Memphis. He was appointed to the Board of Harding University in June, 1969. The 1983 Petit Jean staff was in Oklahoma City at the home of John and Chris Clark on March 5 proofing the final pages of the book when a call came from Searcy that Kandace L. Muncy, aged 23, a senior nursing major and daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Lee Muncy, was in a Little Rock hospital in a deep coma as the result of a self-inflicted gun shot. She died Monday morning, March 7. A Memorial Born July 30, 1959, in Bloomington , IN, where her father served for several years as evangelist for the 4th and Lincoln Streets church of Christ, she moved to Searcy at the age of five with her parents and brothers when her father joined the history facu lty at Harding. She attended Harding Academy where she was a participant in many activities and was a popular student. Kandace ~ enrolled in Harding College in the fall of 1977. After two years of successful study and after completing most of the general education courses, she worked as a nurse's aide in a hospital in Harrison during the 1979-80 school year in an effort to decide what she really wanted to do professionally. She became deeply interested in the nursing profession and returned to Harding in the summer of 1980 to complete the requirements for ad~ mission to the School of Nursing in the fall of 1981. Only a few days before her death, she had been inducted into the Epsilon Omicron Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, national college honor society in nursing. She was listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities of 1983 and was very active in the Zeta Rho social club. Kandace is survived by'her parents, Ray and Eloise, and three brothers - David and Dr. Marc, who had graduated from Harding, and a younger brother, Zac, who was serving as president of the Harding Student Association. Andy T. Ritchie, Jr., retired Bible professor and former A Cappella Chorus director, aged 74, died November 5, 1983, in Searcy. He is survived by his wife, a retired Harding Academy mathematics teacher ; four children, Andy Thomas Ill , Edward c. , Bettye Casey, and Joan , all Harding graduates; 10 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. . Born in Neely's Bend, TN, on April 25, 1909, Ritchie attended local schools until he was 14 and then enrolled at David Lipscomb High School because his father had been a student there when it was called the Nashville Bible School. He continued at Lipscomb until he received the Junior College Diploma in 1929, singing bass on some ou tstanding male quartets. In 1933, he married Kathryn Cullum, one of his Lipscomb classmates. He aspired to a career in radio and served some of the outstanding sta tions of the South as announcer and singer. He pursued musical studies at the Louisv ille Conservatory of Music and under private teachers and presented a number of concerts. In 1939, he returned to Nashville , to teach part time and direct the radio choristers at David Lipscomb College while pursuing at George Peabody College the B.A. degree in music, which he received in 1943. Shortly thereafter he moved to Washington, DC, fo r full-time work with the church. He joined the Harding faculty in the fall of 1946 and served as director of the A Cappella Chorus until 1953. He received the dedication of the 1981 Petit Jean. He took a leave of absence for 1953-54 to complete the M.A. degree in Bible at Scarritt College. From 1955 un til his retirement in 1974, he taught Bible at Harding. During his first year at Harding, he was asked by the church in Hamilton, Ontario, to bring students for a summer evangelistic effort since he had conducted a similar effort in Trenton, N], in 1943 with a group of students from Abilene Christian College. r'@ A Memorial 381
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