J.N. married C.R. Culver [Group Sheet]

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A memorial service for Dr. James F. Wygant is planned for 11 a.m. Friday, July 7, at Meadowwood Memorial Park, 700 Timberlane Road, Tallahassee, Fla. A reception will be held from noon to 3 p.m. at Dorothy B. Oven Park, 3205 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee.

Born Aug. 4, 1919, in Hornell, N.Y., to Harold and Esther Wygant, he passed away Saturday, June 17, 2006, in Houston. He has gone to rejoin his beloved wife Carol in a better place.

Jim graduated cum laude from Alfred University with a bachelor of science degree in ceramic engineering in 1941, and went to work for the Missouri Portland Cement Company in St. Louis. In 1943, he volunteered for the World War II draft. While in the Army and training at the University of Alabama, Jim met Carol Walker, a young civil engineering student. After a whirlwind wartime courtship, they married on July 3, 1944, beginning a lifelong partnership that lasted 54 years, until her death in 1998. Jim was honorably discharged in 1946 after serving overseas in North Africa. Returning to Alfred University after the war, Jim earned a master of science degree and then went on to MIT to take a doctorate in ceramic engineering in 1950. Jim worked for 30 years in research for Standard Oil of Indiana (later Amoco, now BP) in Chicago, Whiting, Ind. and Naperville, Ill. Dr. Wygant rose to director of corporate research and manager of corporate services at the Amoco Research Lab in Naperville, until he retired in 1979 to Tallahassee. Those who knew him as Dr. Wygant, as Jim or as Dad uniformly aspired to rise to his standard. And yet, he had the grace to make the humblest person feel as his peer. We are better for having known him.

Jim is survived by his brother, Foster Wygant of Cincinnati; his children, Margaret Marcum of Austin, Texas, Roger Wygant of Sandersville, Ga., Daniel Wygant of Fayetteville, Tenn., Susan Young of Houston, Charles Wygant of Tallahassee, James Wygant of Houston and Laurance Wygant of DuPont, Wash.; 15 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Arrangements were made by Culley's MeadowWood Funeral Home, Tallahassee, 850-877-8191.

(Published in The Daily Herald on July 2, 2006)

James married Carol Swain Walker 3 Jul 1944, Polk County, Florida, USA. Carol (daughter of Charles Nelson Walker and Nell Flora Kruse) was born 6 May 1924, Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA; died 11 Sep 1998, Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA; was buried 21 Sep 1998, Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park - Tallahassee, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Carol S. Wygant, 74, 1306 Francisco Drive, Tallahassee, Fla., and summer resident of Lac du Flambeau, died Friday, Setp. 11, 1998, at Community Health Care Wausau Hospital.

Carol was a nationally certified flower show judge and landscape critic.

Survivors include her husband, James Wygant; two daughters, Susan (Randall) Young, Midland, Texas, and Margaret (Brad) Marcum of Austin, Texas; five sons, Laurence (Karen) Wygant, Portland, Ore., James (Carmella) Wygant, Houston, Texas, Charles Wygant, Tallahassee, Fla., Daniel (Natalie) Wygant, Fayetteville, Tenn., and Roger (Susan) Wygant, Tennille, Ga.; one sister, Lois (Ralph) Boland, Cassadega, Fla.; 15 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be Monday, Sept. 21, in Tallahassee, Fla.

Peterson Funeral Home, Wausau, is in charge of local arrangements.

(Published in The Wausau Daily Herald on September 15, 1998)

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Rev. Walker, 86, Dies In Hospital

The Rev. Charles Nelson Walker, 86, of Laguna Beach died Friday morning in a local hospital. He had been a resident of this area for the past 20 years coming here from Graceville.

Rev. Walker was a graduate of Stedson University in 1916 and a graduate of Newton Theological Seminary in 1922. He was ordained into the ministry in the late 1910's.

After retirement, he served as pastor of the 1st Baptist Church of Panama City Beach and the Fountain Green Hill Community Church of Fountain.

Rev. Walker and his late wife Nell Walker were among the original persons instrumental in starting the Baptist Bible Institute in 1943 which later moved to Graceville in 1953.

He is survived by his wife Nadine Walker, Laguna Beach, three daughters, Mrs. Ralph Boland, Colorado Springs, Colo., Mrs. John M. Guy, Laguna Beach, and Mrs. James F. Wygant, Naperville, Ill., 14 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, one brother, Hans Walker, Spartanburg, S.C.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the 1st Baptist Church of Panama City Beach with the Rev. James F. Southerland and the Rev. Thomas Stone officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.

(Published in The Panama City News-Herald on February 5, 1977)

Charles married Nell Flora Kruse 7 Jan 1918, Volusia County, Florida, USA. Nell was born 24 Jun 1888, DeFuniak Springs, Walton County, Florida, USA; died Oct 1965, Panama City, Bay County, Florida, USA; was buried , Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery - Panama City, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet]