UM to Remember Lives Lost During the Year

Annual campus memorial ceremony set for Thursday

This year’s memorial service to honor the lives of faculty, staff and students who passed away in the last year is set for 4 p.m. Thursday. Each gardenia in the bowl represents a member of the Ole Miss family who has passed away in the past year. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications

OXFORD, Miss. – Each year, the University of Mississippi family pauses to honor and remember the lives of students, faculty and staff members who died during the past year.

This year’s ceremony is set for 4 p.m. Thursday (May 4) at Paris-Yates Chapel. Established by Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat, University of Mississippi Memorial Day is observed on the last Thursday of classes.

The day is important for friends and family of the deceased, said Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for student affairs.

“The university memorial ceremony gives us the opportunity to recognize the students, faculty and staff members who are taken from us and whose passing leaves a void in the Ole Miss family,” she said.

The service will include music by the University String Quartet and remarks from Hephner LaBanc; Gazel Giles, Staff Council president; Michael Barnett, former chair of the Faculty Senate; and Dion Kevin, Associated Student Body president.

The ceremony, which is open to the LOU community, will honor:

Students

Frank Anderson

Raegan Barnhart

Michael Bonner

Elizabeth Cheek

Jonathan Cleveland

Ralph Floyd

Austin McGraw

Adam Pitts

 

Faculty/Faculty Emeritus

Thomas E. Bates

Lee N. Bolen Jr.

Ronald F. Borne

Fred J. Dorn

Wallace L. Guess

Lennette J. Ivy

Terry G. Klepzig

Sylvester Moorehead

 

Staff

Loretta Agnew

Robert Forster

Edwin William Mattox Sr.

Max R. Miller Jr.

Kimberly Westerfield Perry