Richard L. Disney Jr. (1916-2010)

DISNEY, ARCH, TAUBER, YORKE, BAKER

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 9/11/2010 at 09:56:16

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, September 9, 2010.

Richard L. Disney Jr., 93, of Ames, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, at Green Hills Health Care Center in Ames after a short illness. Burial will be in Iowa State University Cemetery in Ames, following a private family gathering. No services will be held.

Richard was born Oct. 26, 1916, in Muskogee, Okla. He grew up in Ardmore, Okla., and Oklahoma City; received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma; and did graduate work at Columbia University, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Minnesota. He joined the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa State University in 1962 and retired as a full professor (emeritus) in 1982, having previously taught at Montana State University and the University of Wisconsin. Before beginning his academic career, he worked as a reporter for the Muskogee, Okla., Phoenix and Times-Democrat, a news analyst for the National Housing Agency, a reporter for the Washington Star, and an editor and public relations officer for the University of Oklahoma. He served in Italy in World War II and left the U.S. Army with the rank of captain.

He is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Terry Arch, of Reno, Nev., and Mrs. Jean Tauber, of Des Moines; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and his sisters, Dawn Yorke, of Bryan, Texas, and Elizabeth Baker, of Friday Harbor, Wash.

He was preceeded in death by his wife, Jean; his daughter, Elizabeth Disney, of Tucson, Ariz.; and his brother, Mitchell, of Melbourne, Fla.

Memorial contributions may be made to Ames Public Library or the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Adams Funeral Home and Cremation Service assisted the family with arrangements.

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