 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas   The Sherman Democrat July 5, 1961 P.S. WHARTON, 52, AC PROFESSOR DIES Park Street Wharton, 52, chairman of the chemistry department at Austin College, died at 5 a.m. Wednesday at a Sherman hospital after an illness of several weeks. His home was at 1809 W. Brockett. Mr. Wharton had completed his work for the college year and was planning to spend the summer teaching in Colorado when he became ill. He was a native of Sherman, a son of Mrs. Floy Hurt Wharton, 1211 N. Woods, and the late Dr. T.A. Wharton, pastor of First Presbyterian Church here for many years. Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church Thursday afternoon, conducted by the minister, Rev. Archibald McD. Tolbert. Burial was in West Hill Cemetery. LOSS TO AC Austin College president Dr. John D. Moseley, expressing the loss to the college in Mr. Wharton's death said he was one of the finest and most able members of the faculty, recognized over the state for the excellence of his teaching. This recognition, Dr. Moseley said, is revealed in the records of many of Mr. Wharton's former students. He received one of the first Austin College awards for outstanding teaching. Mr. Wharton attended Sherman schools and was graduated from Austin College with a B.A. degree in 1930, and from the University of Texas with a M.A. in 1933. He later studied at Cornell and Stanford Universities. Before joining the Austin College faculty as an assistant chemistry professor in 1934, he had been instructor in biochemistry at the University Medical School in Galveston and taught 1 year at Lutheran College, Seguin. WAR SERVICE He was a Captain in World War II, serving with the ordinance branch of the U.S. Army from April 1942 to December 1945, with more than 2 years in the Pacific Theater. His professional connections were wide, including membership in the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Mr. Wharton was a past member of the executive council of Boy Scouts of America, an elder in First Presbyterian Church, and past president of Men of the Church. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Alice D. Heflin, of Sherman whom he married December 21, 1956; his mother; a brother, Dr. T.A. Wharton, Jr. of Dallas; and 3 sisters, Mrs. Catherine W. Gray of Sherman; Mrs. Chalmers Vinson of Wenonah, New Jersey; and Mrs. C.E. Allen of Newburn, Alabama. Pallbearers were Dr. Frank Sporer of Van Alstyne; Tom Jefferson, Jack Birge, Nat Birge, J.R. Strickland, Dr. George Landolt, Adm. W.K. Phillips, and Tom Newcomb, all of Sherman.  Sherman
- Graveside services for Alice Heflin Wharton, 78, of Sherman native
who died Friday in an Arlington hospital were held this afternoon at
West Hill Cemetery, with Dr. William Poe officiating. Dannel
Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Wharton was born May 9, 1909 in Sherman, daughter of Rufus and Leigh Alice Darracott Heflin. She attended Hockaday School in Dallas and Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia. She married P.S. "Bill" Wharton December 21, 1956, and he died in 1961. Mrs. Wharton did volunteer work and helped organize the STEP program. She was a Methodist. Mrs. Wharton was employed by Texaco, Chapman, Inc. and Miss King's Kitchen. Surviving are nieces and a nephew.  West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2019 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |