NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 26 number 2 - Winter 2006

Friends of the Library News--In Memoriams

By Anne Schnatter, Friends of the Library

Thelma K. Bartley

Thelma K. Bartley of Cary, North Carolina, died on September 25, 2005, at the age of ninety-two. She was born in Missouri, the daughter of William and Lillie Brock. At age twenty, she began teaching in a one-room school. In 1941 she graduated from the University of Missouri where she met Andrew J. Bartley. They were married in 1942. Thelma Bartley worked as a county extension agent during World War II while her husband served in the U.S. Army. In 1948 the Bartleys moved to Raleigh, where Andrew Bartley taught economics at NC State. Thelma Bartley began teaching fourth grade classes in 1957, and she taught Sunday school at Swift Creek Baptist Church. The Bartleys retired to their historic farm, the Barnabus Jones Place, in Wake County in 1975. The Bartleys, life members of the Friends of the Library, established the Andrew and Thelma Bartley Library Endowment in support of the NCSU Libraries’ management collection.

Thelma Bartley is survived by her husband Andrew, professor emeritus of economics in the College of Management; brother Fred Brock and his wife, Ina; son Jon Bartley, former dean and current faculty member of NC State’s College of Management, and his wife, Kathryn; grandson Brandon Bartley and his wife, April; and granddaughter Laura Bartley, all of Wake County.

For information on contributing to the Bartley endowment, please call Jim Mulvey at (919) 515-3339 or send an electronic-mail message to jim_mulvey@ncsu.edu.

Margaret Belle Stuckert Davis

Margaret Belle Stuckert Davis of Raleigh died on October 10, 2005, at the age of eighty-seven. Davis, who was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on April 26, 1918, was the daughter of James Lamar and Ethel Kate Mulkey Stuckert. She graduated from the University of Texas and did graduate work at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she met her future husband, Philip Harvey Davis, of Coshocton, Ohio. Philip Harvey Davis taught in the Department of English at NC State for thirty-four years. Margaret Davis taught social studies at Needham Broughton High School for eighteen years. She also was a member of the Edenton Street United Methodist Church and served in many capacities.

Davis was a life member of the Friends of the Library and established the Philip Harvey Davis Library Endowment at the NCSU Libraries in memory of her late husband. This generous endowment supports the botany collection.

Davis was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and her sister, Frances Ann Stuckert Hallmark. She is survived by a brother, James Lamar Stuckert Jr.; two sons, Arthur Brian Davis and his wife, Barbara; Stephen Lamar Davis and his wife, Marsha; daughter Susan Lynn Davis Van Dyke; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.