We express sincere comfort and/or speedy healing to the following UTIA employees or retirees:

Sympathy is expressed to Cathy Bunton, administrative assistant in Carter County, whose mother passed away on September 21, 2017. Please keep Cathy and her family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

Sympathy is expressed to the family of Bob Fehling, who passed away September 26. Bob had many ties to UTIA. His wife is retired Extension Dean’s Office administrative assistant Lois Fehling, and his daughter is Office of Sponsored Programs information specialist Karin Langan.

Sympathy is expressed to Warren Gill, UTIA Retiree Association member and director of the School of Agribusiness and Agriculture Science at Middle Tennessee State University, in the death of his mother, Helen Carolyn Collier Gill of Petersburg, Tennessee, on November 12, 2017, at age ninety.

Sympathy is expressed to the family of Inez Frady. Frady—mother of Kim Frady, county director and agricultural agent in Bradley County, and grandmother to Kelley Frady, TSU agent in Polk County, passed away early Sunday, November 5. She was ninety-one years old.

Sympathy is expressed to Glen Hall, dean emeritus, CASNR, in the death of his wife, Doris Swingle Hall, on Sunday, September 17, at age ninety. The Halls have been married sixty-nine years.

Hugh Dwight Loveday Sr., father of H. Dwight Loveday, associate professor in the Department of Food Science, passed away October 9, 2017. Hugh retired from the UT motor pool and was a 4-H volunteer leader in Blount County. We express our sincere sympathy to Dr. Loveday, his wife Rita, and family.

Sympathy is expressed to the family of Murray Miles. Murray passed away in Columbia on September 13. He was a Farm Bureau executive for thirty years, but may be best known as television host of “Farm Digest,” which ran on WSMV in Nashville. Murray, a 1952 UT Knoxville graduate in agronomy, was especially passionate about our 4-H program. A former 4-H’er himself from Culleoka, Tennessee, he was an all-star champion in 1949 which influenced his lifelong interest in youth development. He was one of 4-H’s strongest supporters, attending 4-H Congress each year where he will be remembered for his stirring rendition of “God Bless America” during the closing ceremonies. He so believed in the 4-H program that it’s been said his blood ran green. Murray was a great friend of UTIA and Tennessee 4-H, and he will be greatly missed. Please keep Mary Jane, and their daughters Nancy, Pat, Mary, and Sally, in your thoughts and prayers.

We were saddened to learn of the passing of Verna Mae Brandon Steelman, the mother of UT Extension Cannon County agent Bruce Steelman. View full obituary. 

Sympathy is expressed to Brandon and Lisa Garrett Suiter on the passing of their son, Garrett Suiter. Brandon and Lisa were both Extension agents many years ago. Those agents who have worked for a while may remember working with one of them. Garrett lost his battle with cancer at the age of twenty-six. View full obituary.