Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Childs, R.   R.   1942
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Ross R. Childs, was born abt 1888 and died 2-20-1942 (Ga. DC# 2518). Both are
buried at Oconee Hill Cemetery. Wife: Claudia (maiden name Lamb) Childs was born
1-7-1885 and died 3-2-1964 (Ga. DC# 007767)  

R.R. Childs Dies This Morning at Residence Here

Services to be held
Saturday Afternoon
From Baptist Church

R.R. Childs, well known Athenian and connected with the University of Georgia
and the Extension Service since 1909, died at his residence, 175 University
Drive this morning at 11 o'clock.

Mr. Childs was 54 years old and had been under the care of a physician since
December.

Services are to be held Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock from First Baptist
Church, Dr. J.C. Wilkinson, pastor of the church, officiating.

Interment will be in Oconee Hill Cemetery, McDorman-Bridges in charge of
arrangements and pallbearers will be Walter Brown, Frank Ward, Jack Johnson L.I.
Skinner, E.C. Westbrook and J.G. Oliver, E.D. Alexander and D.L. Floyd of the
Extension Service. An honorary escort will include members of Extension Service.

Mr. Childs is survived by his wife, Mrs. Claudia Lamb Childs; two sisters, Mrs.
S.E. Culpepper, Macon, and Mrs. D.G. Comer, Gray, GA; two brothers, Ernest
Childs and William Childs, both of Omaha, GA.

Native of Wayside
Mr. Childs is a native of Wayside in Jones County, GA having been born there on
January 22, 1888.

He received his BS degree in agriculture at the University of Georgia in 1912
and his MS in 1913.  From 1913 to 1914 he was in charge of cooperative
fertilizer investigation in south Georgia for the College of Agriculture at the
University.

From 1914 to 1918, Mr. Childs was scientific assistant to the Bureau of Plant
Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and was in charge of grain
investigations in Georgia.

During the World War, he served as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Service of the
United States Army and returned to the University of Georgia in 1919 as
associate professor and professor of agronomy in charge of cotton industry,
College of Agriculture.  He was a Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps.

Mr. Childs joined the Georgia Agricultural Extension staff in 1933, serving for
more than a year as Extension agronomist.  In 1934 he went with the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration as executive secretary in cotton adjustment and on
December 1, 1989 returned again to the Extension Service as Extension agronomist
in charge of cotton improvement. He was holding this position at the time of his
death.

He was a member of First Baptist church here, the Masons and of the American
Society of Agronomy, the American Genetics Association and the Georgia Breeders
Association.

Widely Known
Mr. Childs was a man of pleasing personality and was not only well known in
agricultural circles in Georgia but throughout the United States. He was quiet
and unassuming and commanded the respect of his fellow-workers as well as that
of many farmers throughout the state.

Mr. Childs was one of the most conscientious and capable employees we had in our
Service," Director Walter S. Brown declared here today. "His loss will be a hard
blow not only to the Extension Service but to Georgia agriculture".

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