Obit of Treadwell, Hugh Wilson - Jefferson County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>    10 Jun 2007
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Tucson Citizen, Tucson AZ

Hugh Wilson Treadwell 83, passed away on Saturday, January 22, 2005 
in El Paso, Texas. He was born in Waurika, Oklahoma on November 21, 
1921, the son of Hugh and Jessie Ellen Cogdell Treadwell. He is 
preceded in death by his parents and younger brother, Ralph Simon 
Treadwell. He is survived by his wife Edith Doolittle Treadwell, 
daughter Pamela and son-in-law Bill Rubin, of Tucson, Arizona, son 
and daughter-in-law Hugh Jr. and Danica Treadwell, of Miami Beach, 
Florida and daughter Cynthia and son-in-law Stephen Miller, of 
Denver. Hugh graduated with BA and MA degrees from the University of 
Oklahoma. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. As a Rotary Foundation 
Scholar, he received a diploma with honors in French Studies from the 
Institut de Touraine, University of Poitiers, France. His business 
career was spent in primarily foreign language college textbook 
publishing with The Macmillan Company, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc, 
Random House-Knopf and W. W. Norton & Co. He also served as director 
of the University of New Mexico Press and the Texas Western Press. A 
veteran of WWII, he served as 1st Lt. with 381st Bomb Group of the 
8th Air Force in the European Theater. He was a former president of 
the El Paso chapter of Alliance Française and El Paso Council for 
International Visitors. He was a member of University Presbyterian 
Church. A memorial service will be held at University Presbyterian 
Church, 244 North Resler Drive, at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 3, 
2005. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the University of 
Oklahoma Foreign Language department, 100 Timberdell Road Norman, 
Oklahoma 73019 or to the charity of your choice in Hugh's name.
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