Obit of Gentry, Theodore Roosevelt - Pushmataha County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 15 Apr 2007 Return to Pushmataha County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pushmataha/pushmataha.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::NOT LISTED Gentry, Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Gentry Ted Gentry passed away in Walnut Creek on April 4, 2006. He was born on Oct. 17, 1907, in Indian Territory (now the State of Oklahoma) in a town called Antlers. He attended the University of Oklahoma for two years and then went to Fairbanks Alaska in 1927. He was the high school basketball coach and math and physics teacher at Fairbanks High School for four years. Ted came to California in 1931 where he attended the University of California and received his BA degree in 1934. He then went to Upper Lake, CA, in Lake County and taught at Upper Lake High School. He was also the high school basketball coach and he was always very proud of the fact that the team won the basketball championship while he was there. This is where he met his wife, Alice. Her family owned Saratoga Springs, a mineral springs resort near Upper Lake. They were married in 1935 and lived in Upper Lake until Ted took a teaching position with Visalia Junior College from 1939 until 1942. During this time he also returned to Cal where he received his masters degree in physics in 1940. In 1942 Ted became a Navy instructor of meteorology (then called airology) at the Livermore Naval Air Station and remained in that position until the end of the war. After the war, he taught math at Castlemont High School in Oakland until 1952. He was a professor of physics at Oakland Junior College, now Merritt Community College, from 1952 until 1970 when he retired. In 1978, he and Alice moved to Rossmoor in Walnut Creek from Oakland and have lived there ever since. Ted was an avid golfer, and shot the same score as his age many times when he was between the ages of 70 and 85 years old. He had a keen intellect and a zest for life until the end. In the last 15 years he particularly enjoyed family picnics in the summer. He is survived by his wife, Alice; sister-in-law, Betty; three children, Rudy, Alice and Bill; grandchildren, Keil, Laura, Nicole, Valerie and Jack; and great grandchildren, Zoe and Josef. A celebration of his life will be held on May 21, 2006. Published in the Contra Costa Times on 4/25/2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Pushmataha County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pushmataha/pushmataha.html