CUMBIE IVEY, JR. ENDOWMENT FUND benefiting Coke County, TX Students ***************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 3 Nov 2000 ***************************************************************** The Observer Enterprise, Vol 113, No. 14, 27 Oct 2000 Endowment to fund ASU Scholarships for Coke County A $100,000 bequest from the estate of longtime Robert Lee business and civic leader Cumbie Ivey Jr., will be used to establish a scholarship for Coke County students attending Angelo State University. Ivey died April 9, 1998, in San Angelo and included the $100,000 provision in his will to benefit Coke County students and ASU, which will establish an endowment with the funds. Income from the "worthy and deserving students" from Coke County in the form of partial or full scholarships to ASU. A check for the endowment was presented to ASU by Ivey's daughter, Patti Lynn Ivey Petersen of Dallas, and his father, Cumbie Ivey Sr. Also representing the family at the presentation was San Angleo attorney Frank W. Rose. ASU President James Hindman and University Relations and Development Vice President Mike Ryan accepted the gift on behalf of Angelo State University and the Texas State University System. Hindman said, "We at Angelo State University are honored that Mr. Ivey chose to name the university as custodian of this gift to help deserving students from Coke County continue their education. He had done in death what he always did so well in life by serving the residents of Coke County, recognizing their needs and working to fulfill those needs." "Through the students it will serve, the Ivey endowment will continue the legacy of a great West Texan in Perpetuity," Hindman said. Ivey was a former mayor of Robert Lee, first being elected in 1956 at age 30. At the time he was the youngest Mayor in Robert Lee history and one of the youngest in all of West Texas. A Bronte native, he graduated from San Angelo High School and North Texas State College, which later became the University of North Texas. After graduation he worked for Sun Oil Co. in Dallas before entering the Air Force, where he worked in the Office of Special investigations. After he was discharged from the Air Force, he returned to West Texas and joined his father's Ford dealership in Robert Lee in 1953. He remained active in the business and civic affairs of Robert Lee and Coke County until his death at the age of 72. Permission granted by Observer/Enterprise for publication in the Coke County TXGenWeb Archives