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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
The following is the complete obituary listing that appeared in The Inyo Register on April 29, 2008.
Charles Alan Tichenor
1916-2008
No funeral services have been announced for three-year Bishop resident Charles Alan Tichenor.
Born in Portland, Ore. to Charles Frances Tichenor and Esther Virginia Eagle on Sept., 25 1916, Charles died peacefully the evening of April 27, 2008. He was 91.
Charles spent a carefree childhood in Oregon and enjoyed fishing and scouting where he graduated from Franklin High School in 1934. His education continued in Illinois, where he graduated from Wheaton College in 1939, and married Ella Marie Tichenor. They moved to Philadelphia and he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Theology in three years. He used a Stevenson Scholarship to continue studies in Semitics at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught Hebrew and Old Testament History through 1945 and then continued graduate study at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, receiving his Ph.D in May 1948.
Charles was ordained a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, later transferring to the United Presbyterian Church where he was minister in Aledo, Ill. In 1952 he became chaplain pastor of the Protestant Fellowship among the employees of the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He was there for five years and then relocated his family to Davenport, Iowa where he was minister at the United Presbyterian Church. In 1960 he obtained a position as history professor at the Lebanon- Haigazian College, an Armenian college in Beirut, Lebanon for three years.
He was the assistant headmaster and chaplain at the American Community School in Beirut until 1967 when the Six Day War forced their return to the United States. Dr. Tichenor was a professor of History at Allegany Community College until his retirement in 1979. He has made many friends around the world during his years of travel, and enjoyed corresponding with them.
After relocating to Bishop while living with his niece Ruth Nielsen, Charles wrote his memoirs, much to the delight of his friends and family.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ella, in 2003.
Charles is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Peter and Eileen Tichenor of California, Mark and Mary Tichenor of Prince Edward Island, Canada and Samuel Tichenor of Canada; daughter, Karen Patton of Maryland; grandchildren and their spouses, Thorsten and Julie Tichenor of California, Melia Tichenor of Oregon, Aaron Kolezar and Luke and Ruth Kolezar-Green of Prince Edward Island, Soleil Main and Rowan Leif Tichenor of Canada and Hillary Norton and Jessica Ann Norton of Maryland; and great-grandson, Riley Ashton Scarlett. |
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