Week of June 24
Interment followed in Faith Memorial Gardens directed by Jordan Funeral Home, Inc.
Mrs. Wingate, 91, died June 15, 2015 at her residence in Darlington, S.C. She was born in Darlington to Phillip and Mable Johnson on February 20, 1924. Rosalie attended Mayo High School and Morris College in Sumter, S.C. She dedicated her life to caring for her family and educating hundreds of children in Darlington.
She is survived by: a son, Otto (Joyce) Wingate Jr.; a daughter, Linda (Dr. James H.) Gatling; three siblings, Albert (Linda) Johnson, Carolyn Walker, and Mary Louise Vanier; five grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and a host of relatives and friends.
The family is receiving friends at the residence, 305 Chestnut Street, Darlington.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery directed by Jordan Funeral Home, Inc.
Mrs. Lide was born on April 12, 1925 to the late Richard and Martha Coe. She departed this earthly life on Tuesday, June 16, 2015.
Maggie was educated in the Darlington County School System and was a faithful member of St. John United Methodist Church.
She was united in holy matrimony to the late Henry Lide. This union was blessed with eight loving children.
Survivors are: five children, Eula McCain, Bobbie Jean (Bishop Ozell) Lucas, Annie Reid, Carolyn (Casey) Forrester and Audrey (Alfred) Harrison; nineteen grandchildren; twenty-one great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; a host of nieces, nephews, and other relatives; and many friends.
The family received friends in the funeral home chapel.
Dr. Russell was born May 27, 1915, in Bedford, Pennsylvania to the late Arthur and Ruth Stearns Stevenson Russell. He received the bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degrees at Pennsylvania State University where he majored in chemistry.
On April 2, 1941, he married Judith Sexauer and celebrated almost 74 years of marriage until her untimely death on February 11, 2015. Dr. Russell joined Alcoa at New Kensington, Pennsylvania in 1940 in the physical chemistry division of Alcoa Research Laboratories. He served in various technical management positions. Dr. Russell was elected Vice President- Alcoa Laboratories in 1974 and four years later, became Vice President Science & Technology. In 1981, he was named Vice President-Chief Scientist.
Dr. Russell was a major contributor to the technological achievements of the aluminum industry. He held 10 patents and has authored or co-authored 37 published articles. Starting in the early 1950s, Dr. Russell participated in the study of many alternative aluminum-smelting processes with major emphasis on chloride technology. This research led to the development of the Alcoa Smelting Process.
Dr. Russell was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and served on its Council from 1978 to 1984. He was a Fellow both at the American Society for Metals (ASM) and of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). He was a member of the National Materials Advisory Board from 1979 to1981. In September 1979, he was named “Scientist of the Year” by the board of Industrial Research and Development Magazine. In 1980, The Pennsylvania State University named him an Alumni Fellow, and was the first American to receive the Karl J. Bayer Medal from the Seventh International Light Metals Congress (1981). In 1982, he was awarded the Gold Medal of ASM. He was the recipient of the Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists in 1983 and the James Douglas Gold Medal in 1987 (AIME).
Following retirement from Alcoa in 1982, Dr. Russell was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and visiting Professor at the University of Florida and Trondheim University, Norway. He served on engineering and research committees for the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State. He was active on committees for the National Research Council, and for various technical societies.
Dr. Russell and his wife Judy, moved to Hilton Head Island in 1986, and were active charter members of Providence Presbyterian Church, where Dr. Russell served as an Elder. They lived life to the fullest, and enjoyed ballroom dancing and world traveling with friends and family.
Dr. Russell celebrated his 100th birthday by revisiting Alcoa Research Laboratory in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. His birthday celebration continued in his hometown of Bedford with a family dinner at the home of his nephew, John (Cathy) Russell, and the next day with a dinner at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort, where Dr. Russell shared many childhood memories.
Preceded in death in addition to his parents, and his wife, are his sister Mary (Ted) Blackburn; his brother, John (Jane) Russell; brother-in-law, Wilbur Creelman; sister-in-law Louise (Bill) Menzel; and brother-in-law Gus Sexauer.
He is survived by his daughter Kay (Joe) Norris; three grandchildren, Jason,(Amy) Norris, Bryan (LIsa) Norris and Jennifer (Mitchell) Crawford; and six great grandchildren, Cameron, Karson, and Lydia Norris, Ava Grace, and Caroline and Emma Crawford; his brother, James (Betty) Russell, of Everett, PA; and sisters Beverly Creelman of Vermont, and Anna Belle (Eugene) Thomas of San Diego, California; and many nieces and nephews.
Dr. Russell, always the teacher, has donated his body to the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, South Carolina.
Memorial services will be July 10, 2015, at 10 a.m. at the Bedford Presbyterian Church 145 S. Juliana Street in Bedford, Pennsylvania with a luncheon to follow at the Church and at a later date at the Providence Presbyterian Church, 171 Cordillo Parkway, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Memorials may be made in his honor to either church.
The family would like to thank Dr. Patrick Jebailey and his staff, and the McLeod Home Hospice staff and volunteers for all of the love, care and support they provided to Dr. Russell.
A guestbook is available online at www.belkfuneralhome.com.
