Stanford Alumni Magazine May/June 2003:
Thornton Young Booth, PhD ’51 (English), of Logan, Utah, July 2, at 84. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young U. in 1941. During World War II and the Korean War, he served in the Army, rising to the rank of captain.
He became an assistant professor at Utah State U. in 1953 and, after serving as head of the English department and dean of the College of Humanities and Arts, he retired in 1988 as professor emeritus.
Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Nan; two sons, James and Geoffrey; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two sisters.
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Thornton Young Booth
Date: July 6, 2002
Thornton Young Booth, (TY) age 84, died July 02, 2002, in Logan, Utah, of natural causes. He was son, brother, husband, father, master teacher, scholar, author, soldier, and above all else, friend to all he knew and touched. He will be missed.
Born March 14, 1918, in Provo, Utah, to Judge Alfred Lewis and Edith Young Booth, third of six children and only son. He married Nan Chipman, Dec. 26, 1945. Educated in the Provo schools; graduated 1935; LDS Mission (England) 1937-39 where he was the...
Author: The Salt Lake Tribune
Page: B7
Word Count: 483
Publication: Salt Lake Tribune, The (UT)
Article ID: 100E449F9D5F0378
Thornton Young Booth, PhD ’51 (English), of Logan, Utah, July 2, at 84. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young U. in 1941. During World War II and the Korean War, he served in the Army, rising to the rank of captain.
He became an assistant professor at Utah State U. in 1953 and, after serving as head of the English department and dean of the College of Humanities and Arts, he retired in 1988 as professor emeritus.
Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Nan; two sons, James and Geoffrey; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two sisters.
Article 1 of 1
Thornton Young Booth
Date: July 6, 2002
Thornton Young Booth, (TY) age 84, died July 02, 2002, in Logan, Utah, of natural causes. He was son, brother, husband, father, master teacher, scholar, author, soldier, and above all else, friend to all he knew and touched. He will be missed.
Born March 14, 1918, in Provo, Utah, to Judge Alfred Lewis and Edith Young Booth, third of six children and only son. He married Nan Chipman, Dec. 26, 1945. Educated in the Provo schools; graduated 1935; LDS Mission (England) 1937-39 where he was the...
Author: The Salt Lake Tribune
Page: B7
Word Count: 483
Publication: Salt Lake Tribune, The (UT)
Article ID: 100E449F9D5F0378
Stanford Alumni Magazine May/June 2003:
Thornton Young Booth, PhD ’51 (English), of Logan, Utah, July 2, at 84. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young U. in 1941. During World War II and the Korean War, he served in the Army, rising to the rank of captain.
He became an assistant professor at Utah State U. in 1953 and, after serving as head of the English department and dean of the College of Humanities and Arts, he retired in 1988 as professor emeritus.
Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Nan; two sons, James and Geoffrey; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two sisters.
Article 1 of 1
Thornton Young Booth
Date: July 6, 2002
Thornton Young Booth, (TY) age 84, died July 02, 2002, in Logan, Utah, of natural causes. He was son, brother, husband, father, master teacher, scholar, author, soldier, and above all else, friend to all he knew and touched. He will be missed.
Born March 14, 1918, in Provo, Utah, to Judge Alfred Lewis and Edith Young Booth, third of six children and only son. He married Nan Chipman, Dec. 26, 1945. Educated in the Provo schools; graduated 1935; LDS Mission (England) 1937-39 where he was the...
Author: The Salt Lake Tribune
Page: B7
Word Count: 483
Publication: Salt Lake Tribune, The (UT)
Article ID: 100E449F9D5F0378
Thornton Young Booth, PhD ’51 (English), of Logan, Utah, July 2, at 84. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young U. in 1941. During World War II and the Korean War, he served in the Army, rising to the rank of captain.
He became an assistant professor at Utah State U. in 1953 and, after serving as head of the English department and dean of the College of Humanities and Arts, he retired in 1988 as professor emeritus.
Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Nan; two sons, James and Geoffrey; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two sisters.
Article 1 of 1
Thornton Young Booth
Date: July 6, 2002
Thornton Young Booth, (TY) age 84, died July 02, 2002, in Logan, Utah, of natural causes. He was son, brother, husband, father, master teacher, scholar, author, soldier, and above all else, friend to all he knew and touched. He will be missed.
Born March 14, 1918, in Provo, Utah, to Judge Alfred Lewis and Edith Young Booth, third of six children and only son. He married Nan Chipman, Dec. 26, 1945. Educated in the Provo schools; graduated 1935; LDS Mission (England) 1937-39 where he was the...
Author: The Salt Lake Tribune
Page: B7
Word Count: 483
Publication: Salt Lake Tribune, The (UT)
Article ID: 100E449F9D5F0378
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