Husband of Barbara nee Bankhead Booker
Obituary
Prof. Frank E. Booker, August 13, 1929-May 6, 1997
Professor Frank E. Booker, 67, who resided on North Shore Drive, Eagle Lake, Edwardsburg, Michigan, passed away at 11:49 p.m. on Tuesday night, May 6, in the Emergency Room of Elkhart General Hospital, where he was taken after an apparent heart attack in his home on Eagle Lake.
Professor Booker was born on August 13, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of the late Ernest and Eula (Sherman) Booker. He is a descendant of railroaders, Baptist ministers and Cherokee Indians.
He entered into the military in 1946, served in Japan, and was discharged as a sergeant in 1948.
He was educated at Southeast Missouri State before entering Duke University, Durham, N.C., where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in Law. While at Duke, he was a member of the Law Review, a moot court champ, and was a student assistant to the Dean.
He practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri and then went to Florida to practice law, and was a tenured full professor at the Stetson Law School in Florida in eight years.
Prof. Booker came to the Notre Dame Law School in 1868 where he taught in addition he was once the director of the Notre Dame London Law Program and lived in England. He was also the director of the Legal Aid clinic with Notre Dame from 1982-1985, and again from 1989-1990. He retired in December 1996 as Professor Emmeritus after 26 years of service.
Prof. Booker was married on February 2, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri to Barbara Bankhead, who survives. He is also survived by four daughters, Elizabeth Lyons and her husband John of Bayfield, Wisconsin, Leigh Booker-Shaul and her husband fred of Santa Clara, California, Susan Booker of South Bend, Indiana and RAchael Booker of Twenty-Nine Palms, California; two sons, Tom Booker and his wife Carolyn of Knoxville, Tennessee and Rob Booker of Edwardsburg; seven grandchildren, Jean, Christopher, Brendan, Sheilagh and Patrick Lyon, Emma and Alex Booker; and by a brother, William Robert Booker of Springfield, Missouri.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to p.m. (Michigan time) on Friday at the Paul E. Mayhew Funeral Home, where a prayer service will be held at 8:30 p.m.
A Mass of Resurrection will be at noon (Michigan time) on Saturday in Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Cassopolis, officiating.
Friends may call at the church for one hour prior to services on Saturday. Burial will follow in Cedar Grove Cemetery, on Notre Dame Avenue, South Bend.
Obituary
Prof. Frank E. Booker, August 13, 1929-May 6, 1997
Professor Frank E. Booker, 67, who resided on North Shore Drive, Eagle Lake, Edwardsburg, Michigan, passed away at 11:49 p.m. on Tuesday night, May 6, in the Emergency Room of Elkhart General Hospital, where he was taken after an apparent heart attack in his home on Eagle Lake.
Professor Booker was born on August 13, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of the late Ernest and Eula (Sherman) Booker. He is a descendant of railroaders, Baptist ministers and Cherokee Indians.
He entered into the military in 1946, served in Japan, and was discharged as a sergeant in 1948.
He was educated at Southeast Missouri State before entering Duke University, Durham, N.C., where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in Law. While at Duke, he was a member of the Law Review, a moot court champ, and was a student assistant to the Dean.
He practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri and then went to Florida to practice law, and was a tenured full professor at the Stetson Law School in Florida in eight years.
Prof. Booker came to the Notre Dame Law School in 1868 where he taught in addition he was once the director of the Notre Dame London Law Program and lived in England. He was also the director of the Legal Aid clinic with Notre Dame from 1982-1985, and again from 1989-1990. He retired in December 1996 as Professor Emmeritus after 26 years of service.
Prof. Booker was married on February 2, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri to Barbara Bankhead, who survives. He is also survived by four daughters, Elizabeth Lyons and her husband John of Bayfield, Wisconsin, Leigh Booker-Shaul and her husband fred of Santa Clara, California, Susan Booker of South Bend, Indiana and RAchael Booker of Twenty-Nine Palms, California; two sons, Tom Booker and his wife Carolyn of Knoxville, Tennessee and Rob Booker of Edwardsburg; seven grandchildren, Jean, Christopher, Brendan, Sheilagh and Patrick Lyon, Emma and Alex Booker; and by a brother, William Robert Booker of Springfield, Missouri.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to p.m. (Michigan time) on Friday at the Paul E. Mayhew Funeral Home, where a prayer service will be held at 8:30 p.m.
A Mass of Resurrection will be at noon (Michigan time) on Saturday in Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Cassopolis, officiating.
Friends may call at the church for one hour prior to services on Saturday. Burial will follow in Cedar Grove Cemetery, on Notre Dame Avenue, South Bend.
Husband of Barbara nee Bankhead Booker
Obituary
Prof. Frank E. Booker, August 13, 1929-May 6, 1997
Professor Frank E. Booker, 67, who resided on North Shore Drive, Eagle Lake, Edwardsburg, Michigan, passed away at 11:49 p.m. on Tuesday night, May 6, in the Emergency Room of Elkhart General Hospital, where he was taken after an apparent heart attack in his home on Eagle Lake.
Professor Booker was born on August 13, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of the late Ernest and Eula (Sherman) Booker. He is a descendant of railroaders, Baptist ministers and Cherokee Indians.
He entered into the military in 1946, served in Japan, and was discharged as a sergeant in 1948.
He was educated at Southeast Missouri State before entering Duke University, Durham, N.C., where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in Law. While at Duke, he was a member of the Law Review, a moot court champ, and was a student assistant to the Dean.
He practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri and then went to Florida to practice law, and was a tenured full professor at the Stetson Law School in Florida in eight years.
Prof. Booker came to the Notre Dame Law School in 1868 where he taught in addition he was once the director of the Notre Dame London Law Program and lived in England. He was also the director of the Legal Aid clinic with Notre Dame from 1982-1985, and again from 1989-1990. He retired in December 1996 as Professor Emmeritus after 26 years of service.
Prof. Booker was married on February 2, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri to Barbara Bankhead, who survives. He is also survived by four daughters, Elizabeth Lyons and her husband John of Bayfield, Wisconsin, Leigh Booker-Shaul and her husband fred of Santa Clara, California, Susan Booker of South Bend, Indiana and RAchael Booker of Twenty-Nine Palms, California; two sons, Tom Booker and his wife Carolyn of Knoxville, Tennessee and Rob Booker of Edwardsburg; seven grandchildren, Jean, Christopher, Brendan, Sheilagh and Patrick Lyon, Emma and Alex Booker; and by a brother, William Robert Booker of Springfield, Missouri.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to p.m. (Michigan time) on Friday at the Paul E. Mayhew Funeral Home, where a prayer service will be held at 8:30 p.m.
A Mass of Resurrection will be at noon (Michigan time) on Saturday in Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Cassopolis, officiating.
Friends may call at the church for one hour prior to services on Saturday. Burial will follow in Cedar Grove Cemetery, on Notre Dame Avenue, South Bend.
Obituary
Prof. Frank E. Booker, August 13, 1929-May 6, 1997
Professor Frank E. Booker, 67, who resided on North Shore Drive, Eagle Lake, Edwardsburg, Michigan, passed away at 11:49 p.m. on Tuesday night, May 6, in the Emergency Room of Elkhart General Hospital, where he was taken after an apparent heart attack in his home on Eagle Lake.
Professor Booker was born on August 13, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of the late Ernest and Eula (Sherman) Booker. He is a descendant of railroaders, Baptist ministers and Cherokee Indians.
He entered into the military in 1946, served in Japan, and was discharged as a sergeant in 1948.
He was educated at Southeast Missouri State before entering Duke University, Durham, N.C., where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in Law. While at Duke, he was a member of the Law Review, a moot court champ, and was a student assistant to the Dean.
He practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri and then went to Florida to practice law, and was a tenured full professor at the Stetson Law School in Florida in eight years.
Prof. Booker came to the Notre Dame Law School in 1868 where he taught in addition he was once the director of the Notre Dame London Law Program and lived in England. He was also the director of the Legal Aid clinic with Notre Dame from 1982-1985, and again from 1989-1990. He retired in December 1996 as Professor Emmeritus after 26 years of service.
Prof. Booker was married on February 2, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri to Barbara Bankhead, who survives. He is also survived by four daughters, Elizabeth Lyons and her husband John of Bayfield, Wisconsin, Leigh Booker-Shaul and her husband fred of Santa Clara, California, Susan Booker of South Bend, Indiana and RAchael Booker of Twenty-Nine Palms, California; two sons, Tom Booker and his wife Carolyn of Knoxville, Tennessee and Rob Booker of Edwardsburg; seven grandchildren, Jean, Christopher, Brendan, Sheilagh and Patrick Lyon, Emma and Alex Booker; and by a brother, William Robert Booker of Springfield, Missouri.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to p.m. (Michigan time) on Friday at the Paul E. Mayhew Funeral Home, where a prayer service will be held at 8:30 p.m.
A Mass of Resurrection will be at noon (Michigan time) on Saturday in Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Cassopolis, officiating.
Friends may call at the church for one hour prior to services on Saturday. Burial will follow in Cedar Grove Cemetery, on Notre Dame Avenue, South Bend.
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