EDWARD S. AVISON
Tuesday, November 7, 1989
ELLISVILLE, MO. — Memorial services for Edward S. Avison, 84, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Gambrill Gardens, Ellisville, Mo., with the Revs. John Ward and Ivan Lee officiating. Burial arrangements are pending at Mount Hope Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan..
Mr. Avison died Sunday at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Creve Coeur, Mo.
He was born June 28, 1905, in Seoul, Korea.
Mr. Avison joined Kansas University's Kansas City Division of Continuing Education and remained there until 1965, when he became statewide representative with the Continuing Education Office at the Lawrence campus.
While at the Kansas City office, Mr. Avison was involved in starting the university's program for prisoners at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth. He also secured the first Endowment Fund for Extension grant for Materials Handling Education.
As statewide representative based in Lawrence, he developed a continuing program in supervisory development for the State Highway Commission and began the first undergraduate credit program for patients at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
Mr. Avison was instrumental in developing programs to serve the educational needs of 25 Kansas cities; the Virgin Islands; Crested Butte, Colo.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Chicago.
He retired from the division in 1974 and moved to Ellisville after his retirement.
He married Alberta J. Avison. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth Anne Swenson, Florida, and Mary Louise McKean, Washington.
Lawrence Journal World
Tuesday, November 7, 1989
ELLISVILLE, MO. — Memorial services for Edward S. Avison, 84, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Gambrill Gardens, Ellisville, Mo., with the Revs. John Ward and Ivan Lee officiating. Burial arrangements are pending at Mount Hope Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan..
Mr. Avison died Sunday at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Creve Coeur, Mo.
He was born June 28, 1905, in Seoul, Korea.
Mr. Avison joined Kansas University's Kansas City Division of Continuing Education and remained there until 1965, when he became statewide representative with the Continuing Education Office at the Lawrence campus.
While at the Kansas City office, Mr. Avison was involved in starting the university's program for prisoners at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth. He also secured the first Endowment Fund for Extension grant for Materials Handling Education.
As statewide representative based in Lawrence, he developed a continuing program in supervisory development for the State Highway Commission and began the first undergraduate credit program for patients at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
Mr. Avison was instrumental in developing programs to serve the educational needs of 25 Kansas cities; the Virgin Islands; Crested Butte, Colo.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Chicago.
He retired from the division in 1974 and moved to Ellisville after his retirement.
He married Alberta J. Avison. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth Anne Swenson, Florida, and Mary Louise McKean, Washington.
Lawrence Journal World
EDWARD S. AVISON
Tuesday, November 7, 1989
ELLISVILLE, MO. — Memorial services for Edward S. Avison, 84, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Gambrill Gardens, Ellisville, Mo., with the Revs. John Ward and Ivan Lee officiating. Burial arrangements are pending at Mount Hope Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan..
Mr. Avison died Sunday at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Creve Coeur, Mo.
He was born June 28, 1905, in Seoul, Korea.
Mr. Avison joined Kansas University's Kansas City Division of Continuing Education and remained there until 1965, when he became statewide representative with the Continuing Education Office at the Lawrence campus.
While at the Kansas City office, Mr. Avison was involved in starting the university's program for prisoners at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth. He also secured the first Endowment Fund for Extension grant for Materials Handling Education.
As statewide representative based in Lawrence, he developed a continuing program in supervisory development for the State Highway Commission and began the first undergraduate credit program for patients at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
Mr. Avison was instrumental in developing programs to serve the educational needs of 25 Kansas cities; the Virgin Islands; Crested Butte, Colo.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Chicago.
He retired from the division in 1974 and moved to Ellisville after his retirement.
He married Alberta J. Avison. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth Anne Swenson, Florida, and Mary Louise McKean, Washington.
Lawrence Journal World
Tuesday, November 7, 1989
ELLISVILLE, MO. — Memorial services for Edward S. Avison, 84, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Gambrill Gardens, Ellisville, Mo., with the Revs. John Ward and Ivan Lee officiating. Burial arrangements are pending at Mount Hope Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan..
Mr. Avison died Sunday at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Creve Coeur, Mo.
He was born June 28, 1905, in Seoul, Korea.
Mr. Avison joined Kansas University's Kansas City Division of Continuing Education and remained there until 1965, when he became statewide representative with the Continuing Education Office at the Lawrence campus.
While at the Kansas City office, Mr. Avison was involved in starting the university's program for prisoners at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth. He also secured the first Endowment Fund for Extension grant for Materials Handling Education.
As statewide representative based in Lawrence, he developed a continuing program in supervisory development for the State Highway Commission and began the first undergraduate credit program for patients at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
Mr. Avison was instrumental in developing programs to serve the educational needs of 25 Kansas cities; the Virgin Islands; Crested Butte, Colo.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Chicago.
He retired from the division in 1974 and moved to Ellisville after his retirement.
He married Alberta J. Avison. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth Anne Swenson, Florida, and Mary Louise McKean, Washington.
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