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Paris News Service
Mon. Oct. 22, 1951
Pg. 4
Retired Educator Dies at Hugo
Hugo, Okla.--Dr. E. P. Childs, 81, retired educator and religious leader, died Sunday at 4 p.m., having been in a critical condition since last Wednesday. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage..
Funeral was set for 3 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian church, the pastor, the Rev. E. Frank Camp, having charge. Bingham-Cooper Funeral Home arranged burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Dr. Childs leaves his wife and these children: Mrs. Robert H. Warren, Choctaw County court clerk here; Edward P. Childs, Jr., Waynesboro, Va.; Mrs. Smartt Walling, McMinnville, Tenn.; Miss Katherine Childs, Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Charles F. Rasmeyer {sic: Alice Ramseyer], Old Greenwich, Conn., and eight grandchildren.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
Dr. Childs was president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., from 1917 to 1920, resigning to become dean and professor of education and psychology at Trinity University, then in Waxahachie, Tex. He also served three years as dean of the University of New Mexico, and on the faculties of Fargo College in North Dakota; Denison University, Granville, Ohio; and Pueblo, Colo., High School, and was principal of the Newark, Ohio high school.
In 1907, he had accepted presidency of the Normal and Collegiate Institute for mountain girls in Asheville, N.C., under direction of the Woman's Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. For a number of years he was field director for this school in four states.
NATIVE OF MICHIGAN
Edward P. Childs was born in Jonesville, Mich., April 15, 1870, son of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. He attended schools there and in Ann Arbor, Mich., Denison University, where he later taught, and the University of Michigan. Later he received his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin.
He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church 50 years, and had been a Mason and a Phi Beta Kappa. He was a life member of the Texas State Teachers Association and an honorary member of the Rotary Club.
He resigned his post at Trinity University in 1934, due to ill health, and had made his home in Hugo the past 14 years.
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Obit Courtesy: Veterans Researcher
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Paris News Service
Mon. Oct. 22, 1951
Pg. 4
Retired Educator Dies at Hugo
Hugo, Okla.--Dr. E. P. Childs, 81, retired educator and religious leader, died Sunday at 4 p.m., having been in a critical condition since last Wednesday. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage..
Funeral was set for 3 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian church, the pastor, the Rev. E. Frank Camp, having charge. Bingham-Cooper Funeral Home arranged burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Dr. Childs leaves his wife and these children: Mrs. Robert H. Warren, Choctaw County court clerk here; Edward P. Childs, Jr., Waynesboro, Va.; Mrs. Smartt Walling, McMinnville, Tenn.; Miss Katherine Childs, Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Charles F. Rasmeyer {sic: Alice Ramseyer], Old Greenwich, Conn., and eight grandchildren.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
Dr. Childs was president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., from 1917 to 1920, resigning to become dean and professor of education and psychology at Trinity University, then in Waxahachie, Tex. He also served three years as dean of the University of New Mexico, and on the faculties of Fargo College in North Dakota; Denison University, Granville, Ohio; and Pueblo, Colo., High School, and was principal of the Newark, Ohio high school.
In 1907, he had accepted presidency of the Normal and Collegiate Institute for mountain girls in Asheville, N.C., under direction of the Woman's Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. For a number of years he was field director for this school in four states.
NATIVE OF MICHIGAN
Edward P. Childs was born in Jonesville, Mich., April 15, 1870, son of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. He attended schools there and in Ann Arbor, Mich., Denison University, where he later taught, and the University of Michigan. Later he received his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin.
He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church 50 years, and had been a Mason and a Phi Beta Kappa. He was a life member of the Texas State Teachers Association and an honorary member of the Rotary Club.
He resigned his post at Trinity University in 1934, due to ill health, and had made his home in Hugo the past 14 years.
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Obit Courtesy: Veterans Researcher
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Paris News
Paris News Service
Mon. Oct. 22, 1951
Pg. 4
Retired Educator Dies at Hugo
Hugo, Okla.--Dr. E. P. Childs, 81, retired educator and religious leader, died Sunday at 4 p.m., having been in a critical condition since last Wednesday. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage..
Funeral was set for 3 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian church, the pastor, the Rev. E. Frank Camp, having charge. Bingham-Cooper Funeral Home arranged burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Dr. Childs leaves his wife and these children: Mrs. Robert H. Warren, Choctaw County court clerk here; Edward P. Childs, Jr., Waynesboro, Va.; Mrs. Smartt Walling, McMinnville, Tenn.; Miss Katherine Childs, Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Charles F. Rasmeyer {sic: Alice Ramseyer], Old Greenwich, Conn., and eight grandchildren.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
Dr. Childs was president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., from 1917 to 1920, resigning to become dean and professor of education and psychology at Trinity University, then in Waxahachie, Tex. He also served three years as dean of the University of New Mexico, and on the faculties of Fargo College in North Dakota; Denison University, Granville, Ohio; and Pueblo, Colo., High School, and was principal of the Newark, Ohio high school.
In 1907, he had accepted presidency of the Normal and Collegiate Institute for mountain girls in Asheville, N.C., under direction of the Woman's Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. For a number of years he was field director for this school in four states.
NATIVE OF MICHIGAN
Edward P. Childs was born in Jonesville, Mich., April 15, 1870, son of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. He attended schools there and in Ann Arbor, Mich., Denison University, where he later taught, and the University of Michigan. Later he received his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin.
He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church 50 years, and had been a Mason and a Phi Beta Kappa. He was a life member of the Texas State Teachers Association and an honorary member of the Rotary Club.
He resigned his post at Trinity University in 1934, due to ill health, and had made his home in Hugo the past 14 years.
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Obit Courtesy: Veterans Researcher
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Paris News Service
Mon. Oct. 22, 1951
Pg. 4
Retired Educator Dies at Hugo
Hugo, Okla.--Dr. E. P. Childs, 81, retired educator and religious leader, died Sunday at 4 p.m., having been in a critical condition since last Wednesday. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage..
Funeral was set for 3 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian church, the pastor, the Rev. E. Frank Camp, having charge. Bingham-Cooper Funeral Home arranged burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Dr. Childs leaves his wife and these children: Mrs. Robert H. Warren, Choctaw County court clerk here; Edward P. Childs, Jr., Waynesboro, Va.; Mrs. Smartt Walling, McMinnville, Tenn.; Miss Katherine Childs, Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Charles F. Rasmeyer {sic: Alice Ramseyer], Old Greenwich, Conn., and eight grandchildren.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
Dr. Childs was president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., from 1917 to 1920, resigning to become dean and professor of education and psychology at Trinity University, then in Waxahachie, Tex. He also served three years as dean of the University of New Mexico, and on the faculties of Fargo College in North Dakota; Denison University, Granville, Ohio; and Pueblo, Colo., High School, and was principal of the Newark, Ohio high school.
In 1907, he had accepted presidency of the Normal and Collegiate Institute for mountain girls in Asheville, N.C., under direction of the Woman's Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. For a number of years he was field director for this school in four states.
NATIVE OF MICHIGAN
Edward P. Childs was born in Jonesville, Mich., April 15, 1870, son of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. He attended schools there and in Ann Arbor, Mich., Denison University, where he later taught, and the University of Michigan. Later he received his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin.
He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church 50 years, and had been a Mason and a Phi Beta Kappa. He was a life member of the Texas State Teachers Association and an honorary member of the Rotary Club.
He resigned his post at Trinity University in 1934, due to ill health, and had made his home in Hugo the past 14 years.
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Obit Courtesy: Veterans Researcher
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