David P. McGill, 90, longtime resident of Davey and an emeritus professor of agronomy, died Oct. 5.
McGill was born Sept. 3, 1919 on a farm north of Waverly to John and Elizabeth (Jeffrey) McGill. He graduated from the University of Nebraska before joining the Army. During World War II, he participated in the Ardennes Forest, [...]

Ernest “Ernie” Peo Jr., 84, died Nov. 10 in Lincoln.
Peo was born April 21, 1925 in Watertown, N.Y., to Ernest Sr. and Mattie (Oney) Peo. He joined the animal science faculty at the University of Nebraska as a professor in 1956 and remained with that department until his 1988 retirement.
Peo taught at both the undergraduate [...]

John Russell Teets, 60, Lincoln, died Nov. 6.
He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Born in Peoria, Ill., in 1949, Teets grew up in Wyoming and Illinois.
Teets was a technical support specialist at UNL, working in the College of Arts and Sciences since 1995. He oversaw student technicians and provided computer [...]

Eric D. Kerr, 79, of Omaha, a former UNL Extension plant pathologist, died Oct. 16 in Omaha.
Kerr was born Feb. 21, 1930, near Gipsy, Mo. He lived on the farm with his father and developed a passion for agriculture. After high school, he was drafted and enlisted in the United States Navy where he served [...]

Charles William Mignon, 75, a scholar and editor of Early American literature and former professor emeritus of English at UNL, died Sept. 25 in Lincoln.
Mignon was born in Greenwich Village, N.Y., on Dec. 11, 1933. He graduated from Kent School in 1952, received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Kenyon College in 1956 and [...]

Frank M. Hallgren
Frank M. Hallgren, 91, founding director of Career Planning and Placement, died Sept. 2.
Hallgren graduated from Lincoln High School, and the University of Nebraska with Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees and Harvard Business School with a Master of Business Administration. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in [...]

Ward Sybouts, 82, emeritus professor of educational administration, died Sept. 3, 2009. He was born at Lone Rock, Oreg., on Aug. 12, 1927 to Lawrence and Theodosia (Thomas) Sybouts. WW II U.S. Navy Veteran. Member, past deacon, and usher, First-Plymouth Congregational Church. Retired UNL professor, 1997, then employed with Talent Plus for six years. Past [...]

Leslie Thomas Whipp, 78, died Aug. 29, 2009 at his home near Poulsbo, Wash. He was born May 3, 1931 at Jacksonville, Fla. to Shannon Leslie and Margaret (Simmons) Whipp. In 1940, he and his family moved to South Dakota. He graduated from Gary High School in Gary, S.D. in 1949. He attended South Dakota [...]

Jill Hyslop-Bohling, 47, of Bennet, died Aug. 28, 2009 at her home near Bennet. She was born on June 13, 1962 at Lincoln. She was a graduate of Palmyra High School and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She married Doug Bohling at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Auburn, and they lived in Auburn and Waverly before [...]

Louis Crompton
Louis Crompton, noted scholar of 19-century British literature and a pioneer of gay studies, died July 11 in El Cerrito, Calif.
Born in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, on April 5, 1925, he was the son of Clarence and Mabel Crompton. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a master’s degree in mathematics in [...]