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ELEANOR HOWE BECKLEY '35, of Livingston, N.J., died November 30, 1998.
HAROLD MYER FIELD '35, of Malibu, Cal., died October 12, 1998.
FRANK HENRY WOODASON '35, of Wenham, Mass., died April 23, 1998. He retired in 1974 after a 36-year career with General Electric Co. He leaves no immediate survivors.
LAWRENCE WINSLOW BEAL '36, of Zephyrhills, Fla., died January 21. He was a retired assistant city engineer for Waltham, Mass., and an inveterate fan of Harvard football.
JOSEPH FRANCIS DINEEN '36 died March 21 in Newburyport, Mass. He was treasurer of Funarama, an amusement park in Hampton Beach, N.H, and a former accountant for the Lawrence (Mass.) Housing Authority.
WILLIAM CONSTANTINE EGAN '36, of Cazenovia, N.Y. He was the retired founder and longtime president of The Goulder Co. Inc., a manufacturer of women's knitted sportswear. During World War II he served as an army pilot and member of the Civil Air Patrol and later headed the knitted-outerwear division of the War Production Board. He was a past president of the National Knitted Outerwear Association, an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, and an active Harvard alumnus. He leaves his wife, Alice (Iseman), a daughter, Alison, and two sons, John and James '72.
JOHN MELVIN HARTWELL JR. '36cl, M.B.A. '38cl, died April 2 in New Jersey lumber company, The Building Center, for many years. He also owned and operated Center Property Improvement Co., a residential renovation and remodeling business. He was long active in Duxbury community affairs, serving on the town's housing authority and building committee. He leaves his wife, Katherine (Harrington), two daughters, Hope and Katherine Sogge, two sons, Samuel and Andrew, a sister, Sarah Harkness, and a brother, Frederick '50, NF '57.
WARREN RICHARDS '36, of Baltimore, died October 30, 1997. He was retired founder and president of Pharma-Plastics Inc., a Baltimore manufacturing firm, and a past president of the Harvard Club of Maryland.
JOHN MCMULLEN CASE '37, M.B.A. '39 died March 16 in Lapworth, Warwickshire, England. He was a retired banker and financial analyst whose long career included periods in Boston, New York Philharmonic, and former chairman of the Boston Tributary Theater. He was also active in Jewish affairs. He leaves his wife, Natalie (Gordon), two daughters, Elizabeth Webb '64 and Pamela Ancowitz, a son, Randall, a sister, Didi Stevens, and a brother, Irving '36.
GERSON HERZL BRODIE '38mcl, of Aurora, N.Y., died March 23. He was a former investment and publishing executive and a retired commander in the Naval Reserve; his book, PT Patrol, is an account of his years in the navy. He leaves his wife, Helen (Minton), a daughter, Jane Simonds, three sons, Edward, Alexander, and Christopher Peterkin, a sister, Elise Higgins, and a brother, Philip.
HERBERT LAWRENCE FURSE '38 died January 30 in Evanston, Ill. He was retired assistant vice president for commercial accounts at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., where he worked for 39 years. During World War II he served in the navy as an ensign on minesweepers in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. A lifelong reader with a particular passion for Dickens, he developed a second career as a collector and seller of antiquarian and out-of-print books. He was a past president of the Midwest Bookhunter's Association and a regular at the annual Dickens Conference at the University of Connecticut State College (now University). Earlier he was a professor of history and social-studies education at Cortland (Maine chapter. He also pursued a lifelong interest in farmland preservation as a board member of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. He leaves a daughter, Eleanor Seager, and two sons, Philip and Alan '73; his wife, Margaret (Brooks) '38, died in 1997.
CARLETON RUBIRA RICHMOND JR. '38, M.Arch. '42, of Scituate, Mass., died March 26. He was a retired architect. He leaves his wife, Judith (Kolos), a daughter, Agnes Rona, a son, Benjamin, and a sister, Jean Stone.
KENNETH OLIVER WILSON '38, of Los Altos, Cal., died December 27, 1998. He served in the navy in the Pacific theater during World War II; later he spent 33 years with Crocker Bank. He was a lifelong avid gardener and a world traveler. He leaves his wife, Grace (Hunter), a daughter, Helen Curtis, and a son, Robert.
