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Home Stillwater, Oklahoma November 2010 David Shelley Berkeley Pd.D January 13, 1917 ~ November 26, 2010 Dr. David Shelley Berkeley, 93, died in Stillwater, Oklahoma on November 26, 2010. A formal visitation will be held Tuesday, November 30, 2010 from 3-5 p.m. at Strode Funeral Home. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Stillwater, Oklahoma with Pastor J.B. Bond officiating. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. David was born on January 13, 1917 to Frank and Flora Berkeley in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was married to Carolin Snider Berkeley on August 20, 1943 in Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and attained the rank of Technician 5th Grade in Army Intelligence. He attended Taylor Allderdyce High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1931-1935. He received his B.A. from Juniata College located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania in 1938. He then received his M.A. from Harvard University in 1941 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1949. He was a visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma in 1965. He published 3 books, one on Milton and two on Shakespeare. He also published 50 articles in 27 journals. David served as President of the South-Central Renaissance Conference, served as Chairman of the Faculty Christian Fellowship, and was Chairman of Graduate Studies in English at Oklahoma State Univeristy. He instituted the Senior Courses, "Literacy Aspects of the King James Version of the Bible: and "C.S. Lewis" in the English Department of Oklahoma State University. He had a strong faith in traditional Christianity and Christian Values and loved to row his boat on Boomer Lake. He is preceded in death by his parents; his wife; and one sister, Marguerite Berkeley Dorer. |
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