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Subject: Dal Coger - Author

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Date Posted: October 07, 2002 8:39:37 EDT

DALVAN M. COGER, 79, of Memphis, professor emeritus of the University of Memphis, died Wednesday (Oct. 2) at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. today at St. George's Episcopal Church, where he was a member, with burial at 10 a.m. Monday in National Cemetery. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. He was a World War II Army veteran, a graduate of the University of Maryland and University of South Carolina, extensively published historian and African studies writer, member of African Studies Association, former chairman of Bibliography Sub-Committee of Archives & Libraries Committee, former book review editor for Liberian Studies Journal and recipient of the Dr. Peter Cooper Award. Mr. Coger, the husband of Greta Coger and widower of Dorothy Coger, also leaves three sons, Dal Leslie Coger of Medford, Mass., Jon-Jock Coger of Yuma, Ariz., and Kevin Craig Coger of St. Paul, Minn.; three half-sisters, Bonnie Royal of Hemlock, Mich., and Suzie Powell and Alberta Johnston, both of Saginaw, Mich.; a half-brother, Don Johnston of Saginaw, and three grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to the University of Memphis Library Fund, University of Memphis Wives' Scholarship Fund or a charity of the donor's choice. (from the Memphis Commercial Appeal)

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