Funeral services for Charles M. Amyx, 86, of Bowie, Md., will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Military graveside services will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Amyx died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md.
He was born March 29, 1914, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Shouse M. and Mildred M. (Alexander) Amyx. He grew up in Lawrence and later moved to Maryland.
Mr. Amyx earned a bachelor's degree in entomology from Kansas University in 1938 and received a teaching diploma in 1940. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1946, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a plant quarantine inspector, working from 1946 to 1961 in New York and Baltimore. He served as an agriculturist in Hyattsville, Md., where in 1982 he became the senior staff officer.
He received the U.S.D.A. Unit Award for Distinguished Service for Aircraft disinspection and quarantine treatment. He also received the Entomological Society of American Distinguished Achievement Award in Regulatory Entomology. He retired in the mid-1980s.
Mr. Amyx was a member of the Entomological Society of America, the American Registry of Professional Entomologists and the International Society of Citriculture.
He married Beatrice Hagedorn on March 17, 1941, in Olathe. She survives of the home. Other survivors include a daughter, Jennifer Stegall, Yucaipa, Calif.; two sons, Charles M. Jr., Summit, N.J., and George R., Bowie, Md.; a sister, Ruth Riggs, Tucson, Ariz.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Sunday, February 25, 2001 ljworld
Mr. Amyx died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md.
He was born March 29, 1914, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Shouse M. and Mildred M. (Alexander) Amyx. He grew up in Lawrence and later moved to Maryland.
Mr. Amyx earned a bachelor's degree in entomology from Kansas University in 1938 and received a teaching diploma in 1940. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1946, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a plant quarantine inspector, working from 1946 to 1961 in New York and Baltimore. He served as an agriculturist in Hyattsville, Md., where in 1982 he became the senior staff officer.
He received the U.S.D.A. Unit Award for Distinguished Service for Aircraft disinspection and quarantine treatment. He also received the Entomological Society of American Distinguished Achievement Award in Regulatory Entomology. He retired in the mid-1980s.
Mr. Amyx was a member of the Entomological Society of America, the American Registry of Professional Entomologists and the International Society of Citriculture.
He married Beatrice Hagedorn on March 17, 1941, in Olathe. She survives of the home. Other survivors include a daughter, Jennifer Stegall, Yucaipa, Calif.; two sons, Charles M. Jr., Summit, N.J., and George R., Bowie, Md.; a sister, Ruth Riggs, Tucson, Ariz.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Sunday, February 25, 2001 ljworld
Funeral services for Charles M. Amyx, 86, of Bowie, Md., will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Military graveside services will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Amyx died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md.
He was born March 29, 1914, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Shouse M. and Mildred M. (Alexander) Amyx. He grew up in Lawrence and later moved to Maryland.
Mr. Amyx earned a bachelor's degree in entomology from Kansas University in 1938 and received a teaching diploma in 1940. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1946, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a plant quarantine inspector, working from 1946 to 1961 in New York and Baltimore. He served as an agriculturist in Hyattsville, Md., where in 1982 he became the senior staff officer.
He received the U.S.D.A. Unit Award for Distinguished Service for Aircraft disinspection and quarantine treatment. He also received the Entomological Society of American Distinguished Achievement Award in Regulatory Entomology. He retired in the mid-1980s.
Mr. Amyx was a member of the Entomological Society of America, the American Registry of Professional Entomologists and the International Society of Citriculture.
He married Beatrice Hagedorn on March 17, 1941, in Olathe. She survives of the home. Other survivors include a daughter, Jennifer Stegall, Yucaipa, Calif.; two sons, Charles M. Jr., Summit, N.J., and George R., Bowie, Md.; a sister, Ruth Riggs, Tucson, Ariz.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Sunday, February 25, 2001 ljworld
Mr. Amyx died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md.
He was born March 29, 1914, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Shouse M. and Mildred M. (Alexander) Amyx. He grew up in Lawrence and later moved to Maryland.
Mr. Amyx earned a bachelor's degree in entomology from Kansas University in 1938 and received a teaching diploma in 1940. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1946, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a plant quarantine inspector, working from 1946 to 1961 in New York and Baltimore. He served as an agriculturist in Hyattsville, Md., where in 1982 he became the senior staff officer.
He received the U.S.D.A. Unit Award for Distinguished Service for Aircraft disinspection and quarantine treatment. He also received the Entomological Society of American Distinguished Achievement Award in Regulatory Entomology. He retired in the mid-1980s.
Mr. Amyx was a member of the Entomological Society of America, the American Registry of Professional Entomologists and the International Society of Citriculture.
He married Beatrice Hagedorn on March 17, 1941, in Olathe. She survives of the home. Other survivors include a daughter, Jennifer Stegall, Yucaipa, Calif.; two sons, Charles M. Jr., Summit, N.J., and George R., Bowie, Md.; a sister, Ruth Riggs, Tucson, Ariz.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Sunday, February 25, 2001 ljworld
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