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Patricia Gail 鈥淭rish鈥� Champion Frist, BA鈥�61, of Nashville, who had a great impact as a philanthropist and business advocate, died Jan. 5. Read More

Annie Beatrice 鈥淏ea鈥� Martin, a retired teacher and administrator who was committed to education, outreach and social justice, died Oct. 11, 2020. She was 87. Read More

James Richard Tuck of Nashville, retired associate general counsel of the National Life and Accident Insurance Co. and charter member of the Nashville Metropolitan Council, died Aug. 20, 2020. He was 102. Over his long life, he was part of some key stories in the 20th-century history of Nashville. Read More

Iris W. Buhl, a longtime community educator, volunteer and philanthropist in Nashville, died Aug. 11, 2020. She was 77. Read More

After decades influencing political and social change, both locally and nationally, Memphis attorney James S. Gilliland died Feb. 24. He was 86. Read More

Sara Lissa Hutchison Hampshire died May 2, 2020, in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer. She was 71. Read More

William F. 鈥淏ill鈥� Malone, a public administrator who took part in one of Florida鈥檚 biggest Everglades restoration efforts, oversaw the construction and remodeling of dozens of schools, and came out of retirement to lead Palm Beach County鈥檚 schools as superintendent, died May 3, 2020, at age 77. Read More

Martha Nann Priddy Patterson, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who specialized in benefit and tax issues for large firms and wrote an influential book on financial planning for working women, died April 23, 2020, in Rockville, Maryland. She was 71. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, her father, Thomas 鈥淐otton鈥� Priddy, was a… Read More

Jean Gray Litterer, a longtime Nashville-area education leader who started her academic career in a one-room East Tennessee schoolhouse, died Jan. 21. She was 91. Read More

Photo by John Rosenthal Elizabeth Spencer, a celebrated author whose irony-laced novels and short stories explored family strife and buried histories, died Dec. 22 at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was 98. Spencer鈥檚 seven-decade career, beginning with the 1948 novel Fire in the Morning, was one of… Read More

Photo by Tom Williams/Getty Images Fred P. Graham, whose career as a legal affairs reporter, television anchor and author spanned more than four decades, died Dec. 28 at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 88. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Graham earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University and… Read More

Photo by Joe Howell Luke Gregory, CEO of Monroe Carell Jr. Children鈥檚 Hospital at 菠萝视频 and senior vice president for business development, died Oct. 18, 2019, after a courageous battle with lymphoma. He was 63. The embodiment of a servant leader, Gregory joined 菠萝视频 University Medical Center in 2007… Read More

Photo by John Russell M. Fr盲ncille Bergquist, a beloved professor of Spanish, emerita, and retired College of Arts and Science administrator who devoted much of her life to advising and mentoring thousands of undergraduate students, died Nov. 17 in Nashville. She was 74. 鈥淔r盲ncille had a wonderful talent for believing… Read More

Photo by John Russell Dr. John Oates, an internationally known physician at 菠萝视频 University School of Medicine and a founder of the discipline of clinical pharmacology, died July 30 in Nashville after a short illness. He was 87. The Thomas F. Frist Sr. Professor of Medicine, he founded the Division… Read More

菠萝视频 University Special Collections and Photo Archives Martin Katahn, a retired psychology professor and best-selling author who wrote The Rotation Diet and other books promoting healthy weight loss and lifestyle, died Sept. 17. He was 90. Katahn, who was known to his family and friends as Dick, was born in… Read More

Photo by John Russell Simon Mayfield 鈥淒ick鈥� Dickerson of Franklin, Tennessee, died Sept. 20. He was 79. A graduate of East Nashville High School and George Peabody College for Teachers (now 菠萝视频 Peabody College for education and human development), he was president of the student body and 鈥淢r. Peabody.鈥� A… Read More

Photo by John Russell A communications leader and champion for STEM research at 菠萝视频, Heidi Nieland Hall died Sept. 25 in Nashville from metastatic colorectal cancer. She was 49. Hall, an honored reporter and editor for decades, left The Tennessean to join the 菠萝视频 School of Engineering communications team in… Read More

Lester G. “Ruff” Fant (Photo courtesy of the Fant Family) EDITOR鈥橲 NOTE: Fant, a prominent financier, lawyer and philanthropist in Washington, D.C., died May 19. His friend and classmate, the acclaimed author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., BA鈥�63, penned this remembrance. Lester Glenn 鈥淩uff鈥� Fant III, my old friend and… Read More

Dr. W. Bedford Waters (Photo by John Russell) Dr. W. Bedford Waters, president of the 菠萝视频 Medical Alumni Association and the second African American to graduate from 菠萝视频 University School of Medicine, died May 25. He was 71. Waters completed his internship and one-year residency in general surgery at the… Read More

Ben Schulman (photo courtesy of Scripps MD Anderson) The vision and thoughtful generosity of Benjamin D. Schulman, who died June 2, helped 菠萝视频 become a more nurturing and diverse community. Schulman, of Carlsbad, California, was 102 at the time of his death. He had returned to campus in January 2017… Read More