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Killebrew, Rosamond Lockett     23 Nov 2009    Nov 2009    Jerry Nelson  

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge):  11/23/2009

KILLEBREW, ROSAMOND LOCKETT 
Rosamond Lockett Killebrew passed away on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. She was 97
and a resident of Baton Rouge. She was the beloved wife of Joseph
Killebrew, and daughter of Emmet S. Lockett and Ella Gertrude Harlan, who
were of Canton, Miss. Rosamond was born in Grenada, Miss., graduated from
Greenwood High School, Greenwood, Miss., Delta State College, and the
University of Southern Mississippi and did further graduate studies at LSU.
During World War II, she was an agent with the U.S. Special Intelligence
Service, and was involved in anti-Nazi operations in Central and South
America. During the early years of her professional life, she did
conservation work as an ornithologist and horticulturist with E.A.
McIlhenny at Avery Island. Later in her career, she was head of the science
department at Biloxi Municipal School System, and was appointed to the
teaching and research faculty at LSU where she was employed at the Nuclear
Science Center, and the Harry D. Wilson Laboratory. While at LSU, she
attained the rank of Assistant Professor, and was a guest researcher at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She was a member of several
academic and professional societies including Alpha Psi Omega, National
Theatre Honor Society, Gamma Sigma Delta, Agricultural Science Society,
Beta Mu Kappa, Mathematics Honor Society, Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research
Society and the American Association of University Professors. Survived by
her children, Dr. Charles J. Killebrew and wife Winnie Hayman Killebrew,
Denham Springs, Linnella D. Garrett and husband F. Randall Garrett, Baton
Rouge, Regina Killebrew, Portland, Ore., Cynthia Shapiro, Ponchatoula, and
Alfred Shapiro and wife Kristina, Baton Rouge; grandchildren, Richard Carl
Kuhlmann Jr. and wife Edith, Phoenix, Derek Harlan Killebrew, Alyssa D.
Killebrew, Ashley D' Antoni Wegmann and husband Joseph A. Wegmann, all of
Baton Rouge, Keith W. Buchert, Houston, and Kevin T. Buchert, Phoenix,
Emily Winfield Garrett, Dallas, and John Taylor Garrett, New Orleans; and
six great-grandchildren, Kandice Leigh Kuhlmann, Brittanie Elyse Kuhlmann,
Nicholas Kole Kuhlmann, her namesake, Rosamond Aaliyah Richelle Kuhlmann,
and twins Richard Carlos and Richardo Carl Kuhlmann. Visitation for family
and friends at Resthaven Funeral Home, 11817 Jefferson Highway, on Tuesday,
Nov. 24, from 9 a.m. until service at 11 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Donald
Tabb. Interment in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. 

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