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Pauline Knight
Perkins
, first secretary
of TVCC founder and
president Orval Pirtle,
died May 23, 2016 at
age 90.
Troy Saunders
of
Mabank, TVCC
student and local
musician/guitar
teacher, died 0n
December 23, 2016
at age 20.
Mary Elizabeth “Liz”
McKenzie Mullins
Pettigrew
, TVCC
Terrell graduate and
owner of Liz’s Fashions
in Kaufman, died
October 9, 2016 at
age 70.
Robert Pickle
of
Eustace, HCJC
graduate and Air
Force veteran, died
November 26, 2016 at
age 85.
Bobby Eugene
Starnes
, former
HCJC football
player, died April 2,
2017 at age 84.
Alvis Wayne
Montrose
, long time
TVCC welding
instructor, died July 6,
2016 at age 76.
Bobby Lee Richards
of Murchison, member
of the 1951 HCJC football team and Navy
veteran, died May 3, 2017 at age 85.
Danny Royce
Teague
, former
TVCC journalism
instructor and
Athens Daily
Review editor, died
October 10, 2016
at age 73.
Randy Parnell
,
Jr.
,
TVCC student died,
December 20, 2015 at
age 18.
Brooke Roton
,
a 2010 TVCC
graduate and former
Cardette, died April
17, 2016 at age 25.
Dr. Henry Pearson
of
Athens, former TVCC
instructor, died March
9, 2017 at age 83.
Sadie Luster
Royall
, 1957
nursing graduate of
HCJC, and the first
African-American
nurse to work at the
Henderson County
hospital, died Dec. 3,
2015, at age 90.
Suzanna “Suzie”
Vinson
of Terrell,
TVCC nursing
graduate, died
January 27, 2016 at
age 49.
Donna Kay
Weaver
, TVCC
graduate, died
September 3, 2015
at age 60.
Melvin Swift
,
TVCC basketball
player, died
December 27,
2015 at age 21.
Emma Lea Ward
,
1987 TVCC
Computer Science
graduate and
long-time CASA
volunteer, died
August 30, 2016 at
age 75.
