Student counselor Robert Wenzel Sherrod died February 24, 2010. He was ninety years old. Mr. Sherrod graduated in 1937 from North Side High School, where he was an all-district guard in football and played catcher in baseball. He attended TCU on a football scholarship in 1937 and played right guard for the 1938 national championship team. He was inducted into the TCU Hall of Fame in 2008. He was All-Southwest Conference guard in 1940 and played in the Blue-Gray Game his senior year. He was awarded the Dan Rogers Award as MVP his senior year. He graduated in 1941 with a bachelor's degree in business and received a master's degree in public administration in 1948. After graduating from TCU, he coached at North Side High School and then began a teaching and counseling career at Carter Riverside and Poly high schools. He retired from Poly in 1982 after forty years in the Fort Worth school district. Mr. Sherrod married his college sweetheart, Frances Helen Olson, in 1941. He served in the army between 1942 and 1946 and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. In 1945 he played for the Army All Stars. Mr. Sherrod is survived by his wife of sixty-eight years, Frances Sherrod; daughter, Cynthia Sherrod Ray; son, Robert W. Sherrod Jr.; grandchildren, Robert Brent Chism, Jeremy Michael Chism, and Katherine Elliott Harsha; and brother, Joe R. Sherrod.
	Peggy Ann Martin, sixty, passed away October 4, 2009. Peggy was born in 1949 in Fort Worth. Survivors include her daughter, Deanna Gentry; sons, Tommy McElroy and Jonny McElroy; brother, Joe Martin; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
	Linda Tidwell Ward, sixty, died October 7, 2009, in Fort Worth. Linda was born March 10, 1949, in Fort Worth and worked at Texas Works as an advisor for health and human services. She was a member of New Faith Baptist Church in Annetta. Survivors include her mother, Dora Orlena Tidwell; brother, Jarry Tidwell, and wife, Judy; and sister, Luann McDaniel.
	Ronnie Woodall died June 8, 2009, in Weatherford. Ronnie operated Woodall's Auto Upholstery in Weatherford for twenty years. His hobbies were raising rabbits and setting up at the First Monday Grounds in Weatherford. His wife, Nancy Clay Woodall (also class of 1967), said, "My most vivid memory was Ronnie turning the corner of Vaughn Boulevard and Hanger Street. You could hear the loud pipes of his 1955 Olds, which he called 'The Gray Goose,' his eight-track going with Johnnie Rivers's 'Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,' and that sheepish grin he always had and a look in his eyes that he knew something that no one else did." Other survivors include a son, Todd; a daughter, Rhonda; and six grandchildren.
	Norman Morrow died March 12, 2009, in Queens, New York. He was born in Waco to Norma Hoffmeyer Morrow and Thomas C. Morrow Sr. After graduation from Poly, Norman attended the University of Arkansas and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, majoring in theater. His passion was the stage, which why he moved to New York City. He and his family moved from New York to New Zealand in 1995, returning to the Fort Worth area in 1998. Norman and wife Nancy returned to New York in 2006. Other survivors include his son, David, of Queens; daughter, Megan of Austin; brothers, T. C. Morrow Jr. of Fort Worth, Tim Morrow of Corpus Christi, David Morrow of Burleson, and Michael Morrow of Newark, New Jersey.
	(From a Star-Telegram obituary) BURLESON--Poly High coach Jack Quarles Whitley died February 22, 2009, at his home in Burleson. He was eighty-eight. Coach Whitley flew B-25 bombers in World War II and later led the Carswell Bombers football team to a national military services title. He became a coach at Poly, a school administrator, and a probation officer. But before he was a Poly Parrot, he was a Mighty Mite. When he was thirteen, in the depths of the Great Depression, coach Whitley arrived at the Masonic Home and School of Texas in Poly. He lived there until leaving for college, playing linebacker and center for football coach Rusty Russell. Playing against some of the state's largest schools, the Mighty Mites consistently had winning seasons, about eight victories a year, between 1928 and World War II. Coach Whitley was born September 28, 1920, in Elkhart, near Palestine, to Eula Quarles and William Elmo Whitley. His father worked for the railroad, coach Whitley's daughters said. A sister died before he was born, and when coach Whitley was nine, his father died of stomach cancer. He and his mother moved to Houston, where she had a better chance of getting a job. She found one selling cigars at a hotel. Later she sent him to live at the Masonic Home so he could be better provided for. "His happiest years growing up were probably at the Masonic Home," his daughter Donna Jones of Burleson said. He enjoyed the camaraderie, she said. After graduating as the youngest senior in his class, he went to Lon Morris College in Jacksonville on a football scholarship. There he met his wife, Durstyne Moore. Then he attended Stephen F. Austin State University until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He soon joined the Army Air Corps, his daughter Jackie Stewart of Austin said. The day he graduated from flight school--September 6, 1942--the couple married. But soon he was the captain of a B-25 bomber crew based in Okinawa. He remained on active duty until 1952 and then served in the Air Force Reserves for more than fifteen years, Stewart said. After the war he was assigned to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth. He became assistant to Bobby Dobbs, coach of the base football team, which won the national service championship in 1951. The next year he was back at the Masonic Home, this time as football coach. He stayed there for about a decade until he was asked to coach the Poly High School team. The job paid more, so he took it, Stewart said. Coach Whitley later became superintendent of the Tarrant County Children's Home and the Masonic Home. Still later he worked as a county probation officer, retiring in 1996. He liked to walk around his eleven acres in Burleson, feeding a pet donkey, goat, and catfish, Jones said. He had nicknames for all of his children and grandchildren. Every year he gave twelve gifts to his wife in the days preceding Christmas. They were married for sixty-one years. She died in 2004. Coach Whitley was buried at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Other survivors include a daughter, Karla Purcell, of Joshua.
	Peggy Parton, sixty, passed away February 21, 2009, in Waxahachie. She is survived by her parents, Charles R. Parton II and George and Peggy Montgomery; and brothers, Charles R. Parton III, Jimmy C. Parton, and Bobby Montgomery.
	Penny Goodloe Long, fifty-eight, passed away February 24, 2008, in Fort Worth. Penny was born in Fort Worth, where she spent the majority of her life, teaching for twenty-seven years, primarily at Joy James Elementary. Survivors include brothers, James Goodloe, Zane Gehring, and Keith Eberly; sister, Charlotte Reeves; and sons, Kendall Long and Cameron Long.
	Danny Crownover, fifty-eight, passed away January 2, 2008, at a local hospital. Danny was born in Fort Worth to Evelyn and J. C. Crownover. A Vietnam veteran, he served two tours as a radio control operator and earned numerous medals. Survivors include daughter, Danielle Greene; grandchildren, Madelyn and Dillon Greene; mother, Evelyn Tidwell; brother, Larry Crownover; and sister, Sandra Pounders.
	Betty Ann Vandiver, fifty-eight, a retired teacher, died September 28, 2007. Betty taught school for thirty years in the Burleson school district. She graduated from TWC and earned a master's degree from Texas Woman's University. She was a therapeutic foster mother to many children for twenty years and adopted her first child, Lisa, the daughter of her oldest sister, who died in 1973. Later Betty adopted six other children whom she had fostered. Survivors include daughters, Lisa Case, Kris Little, Nicki Vandiver, Samantha Vandiver, Kendal Vandiver, Allie Vandiver, and numerous other foster children; sister, Linda Sue Dahl; grandchildren, Abby Case and Brian Vandiver; and aunts, Gloria Stewart, C. Delight Felps, and Ada Williams.
	Glen Stanley, fifty-eight, died July 18, 2007. Glen was born in 1948 in Fort Worth and attended Eastland Elementary and Forest Oak Junior High. He was a trumpet player in the Poly Marching 100. Glen, who retired from the U.S. Postal Service after thirty-two years, was a lover of animals, science-fiction, and movies and loved reading. He also loved astronomy and geography and was known as a "walking encyclopedia." He was also known as a jokester. Survivors include his parents, Weldon and Betty Stanley; daughters, Rachel and Melissa; and grandson, Carson Proctor.
	Business teacher Anna Lou Fanning, eighty-four, died February 12, 2007. She was born in Mountain View, Oklahoma. She married Jack Fanning in Lawton, Oklahoma, in 1942 and moved to Fort Worth. She earned a BBA degree from Texas Wesleyan University and an M.Ed. degree from North Texas State University. In addition to Poly, she taught at Haltom High School and Texas Wesleyan. She was a member of Richland Hills Baptist Church, Willis Baptist Church, and Delta Kappa Gamma, Theta Theta Chapter. Survivors include her sister, Linda Harmon; children, Georgene Mais and John N. Fanning; grandchildren, Shane Mais, Lesli Mais, and Wesley, Jamie, and Loren Fanning; great-grandchildren, Michaela and Zackary Mais, Madison Fanning, and Jaxson Lee.
	Judy Elaine Smith Wilkerson, fifty-seven, an award-winning singer and songwriter, died January 20, 2007. Judy was born August, 7, 1949, in Fort Worth. She treasured the friends she made through music. Survivors include her husband, Carl D. Wilkerson; daughter, Kelly Murray; stepchildren, Debbie Powell, Janet Thelen, David Wilkerson, and Tim Wilkerson; grandchildren, Taylor, Lauren, Mary, Carol, Lacy, and Harlie; parents, Charles and Vera Smith; sister, Charlotte Brannen; and nephew, Cody Brannen.
	Mark Shadle, who was president of our sophomore, junior, and senior classes, died at his home in Boise, Idaho, on October 28, 2006. He was fifty-seven. Mark was born in Fort Worth, the son of James and Juanita Shadle. He graduated from the University of Houston with a BS degree in pharmacy. He lived in Texas, Utah, Arizona, and Idaho. He was employed by Albertsons as a group vice president of pharmacy operations at the time of his death. Mark loved sailing and hiking and was an avid reader. Survivors include his wife of thirty-eight years, Kathy McIntosh Shadle (also class of 1967) of Boise; daughter, Amy Lucille Garms of Lubbock; son, Mark Corbett Shadle Jr. of Boise; mother, Juanita Shadle; brother, Dr. James R. Shadle Jr.; sister, Nancy Lu Henkell; and cousin, Rex McDaniel (also class of 1967).
	Lynn Durham died October 30, 1994, from complications from hepatitis. She was married at the time of her death to another Poly alumni, Claude Bagwell. Lynn attended ATI, where she studied commercial art. She was preceded in death by her parents, D. W. (Bill) and Rose Durham. Survivors include her daughter, Stephanie Dawn Tiede of California; grandchildren, Jinnifer, T. J., and Rosanna (Rosie); and sister, Stephanie Durham Thomason of Lillian, Texas, a Poly graduate and wife of Jackie Thomason (also class of 1967).
	Jane Webster Galloway, fifty-seven, died July 13, 2006, in Fort Worth. Jane was born July 25, 1948, in Hillsboro. She enjoyed making flower arrangements, arts and crafts, and traveling with her husband. Survivors include her husband of thirty-nine years, Jim Galloway; son, Scott Galloway; daughter, Pam Summitt; mother, Iva Webster; grandchildren, Katrina, Austin, Isabella, Kendall; twin brother, Wayne Webster; and sister, Nell Brown.
	Elizabeth Ann Moss Klinglesmith, fifty-six, died January 22, 2006, in Fort Worth. Elizabeth was born in Bridgeport. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jackie Lee Klinglesmith, in 1997 and by her father, Bill Jack Moss, in 1981. Survivors include her mother, Cleo Moss of Fort Worth; aunts, Nora West, Cletus Atkinson, and Thelma Woods; and foster brother, Allen Stevens.
	Greg Mitchamore, fifty-six, died November 7, 2005. Greg was fatally injured when a tractor fell on him at his farm at Grandview. Survivors include his wife, Holly Mitchamore; sons, Josh and Jase; daughter, Alli Mitchamore, all of Grandview; son, Byron, and wife, Shai, and their son, Zachary; son, Brett and wife, Natalie, and their daughters, Whitney and Carley; son, Blake, all of Mansfield; parents, James and Mary Mitchamore of Hurst; brother, Scott Mitchamore and wife, Leslie; sisters and brothers-in-law, Gail Killough and Buster, and Julie Westlund and Gary; father- and mother-in-law, Vernon and Kathy Roberts; sisters- and brothers-in-law, Shannon and Randy McAllister and Amber and Charles Slotnik.
	Karen Yanez Williams, fifty-six, died July 15, 2005. Karen had worked for Osteopathic Medical Center for more than twenty years. Survivors include her husband, Mark Williams; son, Roy Carter; stepdaughters, Julie and Marcia Williams; and parents, Roy and Bernice Yanez.
	Freddie Lopez, fifty-five, died March 30, 2005. Freddie was a veteran of the Vietnam War, serving from 1969 to 1971. Freddie loved his job as a wine consultant for Majestic Liquor and was eager to learn all he could about fine wines. Prior to that, he was an apprentice in the culinary arts. He was a great chef and loved to cook for large groups or just friends and family. He was preceded in death by a brother, Eddie Lopez. Survivors include his parents, Ernest and Mary Lou Lopez; nephews, Aaron and Christian Lopez; niece, Camille Lopez; and sister-in-law, Terri Lopez-Eager.
	Ralph George Henderson, fifty-four, died March 1, 2004, after a long battle with heart disease and cancer. Ralph was born June 11, 1949, in Fort Worth. From 1969 to 1973 he served in the Air Force, where he received Airman of the Year award while serving in Guam. Ralph delivered for Lone Star Couriers for four years. He was preceded in death by his father, George Henderson. Survivors include his wife, Belinda Joy Henderson; daughter and son-in-law, Danica L. and Chip Gowan; son, Ralph D. Henderson; grandchildren, Davis J. Gowan, Elliot L. Gowan, and Natalie A. Bickel Henderson; mother, Georgie Elizabeth Benton; brothers, Paul L. Henderson and Tony L. Henderson; and sister, Penny Ann Chamberlain.
	Luke Aunquoe, who attended Poly High during our sophomore and junior years, died in 1999 and was buried in the family cemetery in Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma. Luke was born in 1948 in rural Apache, Caddo County, Oklahoma, to Percy and Elsie (Klinekole) Aunquoe. He lived most of his life in Fort Worth, where he also attended D. McRae and William James. After high school he attended Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, earning a degree in business administration. He served in the navy during Vietnam and was wounded while facing hostile action on a river patrol. He was a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma and the Texas Indian Club, where he performed as a dancer. He was called upon to perform the hoop dance, the eagle dance, and the fancy war dance. He worked as a security guard for the Kiowa tribe and John Peter Smith Hospital and worked for several firms as a bookkeeper. He worked for the Tandy Corporation in Fort Worth as a security guard at the time of his death.
	Gladys Blair Dunkelberg, wife of the late Poly High teacher Kent "Prof" Dunkelberg, died at age ninety-eight on August 30, 2003. Mrs. Dunkelberg was born in 1905 in Bowie, the daughter of John H. Blair and Maude McPherson Blair. She was a longtime teacher in the Fort Worth schools and a resident of Fort Worth since 1927. She attended Bowie public schools and then Mary Hardin Baylor College at Belton and the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a bachelor of arts degree in 1925. She received her master's in education degree from Texas Christian University in 1951. Her teaching career began at McLean in 1925 and continued at Nocona in 1926, where she met Prof Dunkelberg, who was teaching chemistry at Nocona High School. They married in 1927; he died in 1994. She was a member of the Polytechnic Heights Woman's Club. After the birth of her children she returned to teaching at William James Junior High, where she taught mathematics, algebra, and Latin, her favorite subject. A longtime member of Polytechnic Methodist Church, she was active in the Mizpah Sunday school class for women. She was many times named "Mother of the Year" by the Sigler Men's Bible Class. Survivors include daughter, Rachel Sonntag, and son-in-law Dr. Roy Sonntag of Abilene; sons, Dr. Walter R. Dunkelberg of Austin, Stephen B. Dunkelberg of North Richland Hills, and Dr. John Roy Dunkelberg of Martinez, California; thirteen grandchildren; and twenty-three great-grandchildren.
	D. S. "Dickie" Knox Jr., fifty-four, a real estate salesman, died July 18, 2003, in North Richland Hills. Memorial service was at Crosier Pearson Mayfield Funeral Home in Burleson. Dr. Kevin Steger, associate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Burleson, officiated. Dickie was born March 13, 1949, in Fort Worth to D. S. Knox Sr. and Nellie Bly "Nell" Slay Knox. He graduated from Burleson High School. He worked in real estate sales. Dickie was preceded in death by his father in 2001. Survivors include a son, Joshua Knox of California; stepdaughter, Aisha Brauer of California; mother, Nellie Bly Slay Knox of Amarillo; and sister, JoAnn Knox Moore, and her husband, Bill, of Burleson.
	Betty Tillman died in March 2003.
	Frank Rodieck Jr., fifty-three, died November 27, 2002, at a Corpus Christi hospital. Frank was born February 2, 1949, in Fort Worth. He had been a resident of Flour Bluff, near Corpus Christi, for eight years. In high school Frank was a member of the Swordsmen band with Jerry Stewart, Neil Wilcox, and Logan Swords. Survivors include his wife, Susan Rodieck of Flour Bluff; daughters, Raeanna R. Shetron of Burleson, Mariah R. Rodieck of Flour Bluff, and Sarah Mitchell of Fort Worth; son, Davin Mitchell of Fort Worth; mother, Mary Adra Wansley Rodieck of Burleson; and two grandchildren.
	Paul Geer died at age fifty-two on New Year's Day of 2002. Paul was born November 23, 1949, in Fort Worth. He had worked as a truck driver for thirty years. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Paula Geer. Paul was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth. Survivors include a son, Michael Geer, and wife, Laura, of Fort Worth; mother, Hazel Hopkins of Fort Worth; a granddaughter, Lauryn Geer; and a nephew, Michael Geer Jr.
	Sandra Kay Timmons died October 2, 2000, at her home in Azle. Sandra was born in Fort Worth and was an active member of the Poly class of 1967 reunion committee, working to locate former classmates. She was a floral designer at the Wal-Mart Super Center in Lake Worth.
	Mrs. Julia Welch, Spanish teacher at Poly, died in July 2000 at age eighty-eight. Mrs. Welch was the mother of David Welch of our class, now living in Kamiah, Idaho. After retiring from teaching, she had continued as a volunteer aide at Atwood McDonald Elementary and as a Spanish teacher at Meadowbrook Senior Citizens Center. Vaya con Dios.
	Ed Yauger Jr. died in January 2000. He had played in the Marching 100 band at Poly, later was an MP in the Army, and worked in the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department until 1976, when he began working in the manufactured housing industry. Ed lived in Rendon at the time of his death.
	Ann Capps Trussell died in August 1999 after fighting breast cancer for ten years. She was a self-employed consultant and had received the Network for Executive Women's Ruth Marie Cox Award for outstanding leadership in 1999.
	Biology teacher Miss Katherine Rose died in November 1998. She was also the ROTC sponsor. After many years at Poly, she transferred to Southwest High in 1972 and retired in 1978. Later she was manager of the school district's Living Material Center. She was a 1934 graduate of TCU.
	Jim Henley died in 1997. He was a teacher in Arlington.
	Kathy Christy McGee Ford died in December 1995. Her family lived in Edom, near Tyler, at the time of her death. She had two children. Kathy was severely injured in the crash of Delta flight 191 at DFW Airport in 1985.
	David Foster died at age twenty-one after he was injured in an auto accident in Benbrook. David had joined the Marines in 1969 and was injured in Vietnam. He attended Tarrant County Junior College.
	Johnny Bragg died in 1994. Johnny was born in Spokane, Washington, and in 1974 moved to San Antonio, where he was a pet groomer.
	Jack Strickland died in 1993. He had been a convenience store manager for Mobil Oil for fourteen years.
	Lonnie Vessels died in August 1993.
	Distributive Education teacher Miss Edith Hudson died in 1995. She taught in Olney before teaching at Poly and retired in the early 1970s. She was from Gage, Oklahoma.
	Kent "Prof" Dunkelberg, who taught science at Poly for thirty-nine years, died in 1994 at age ninety-three. He retired after our junior year.
	Mrs. Alton Ruth Davis, math teacher, died in 1994.
	Shop teacher Clyde Butler died in 1991 in Sulphur Springs at age eighty-one.
	Lloyd Carter, drafting teacher, died in 1989.
	Joe Clark, history teacher and sponsor of Junior Historians, died in 1972.
	Mike Gilliam died in an auto accident in December 1978.
	Jimmy Brewer died in an auto accident in about 1984. He was thirty-five. Jimmy was a private investigator and a candidate for Tarrant County sheriff at the time. He was a former Golden Gloves boxing champion and bail bondsman, a member of Poly Baptist Church, the Fort Worth Jaycees, and Big Brothers of Tarrant County. Jimmy was survived by his wife, Melissa, and three sons. (Thanks to Jack Hotchkiss for supplying the newspaper clipping.)
	Joe May died in 1985 in Fort Worth. He was thirty-six. Joe had lived for eighteen years in New York City, where he was an artist. He was survived by his father, Joseph May; mother, Marie May; and sister, Marilyn Russie.
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	David Dykes served two tours in Vietnam. He was killed in a highway accident in 1974.
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