Dwight Kittelberger Parsons ’34

Dwight, a Harvard Law School graduate and practicing lawyer since 1938 — "with both appetite for, and great satisfaction from, that career," as he once wrote — died Jan. 1, 2003, two weeks after his 90th birthday. Except for the years during WWII, when he worked at the Cleveland Ordnance District, he was associated with the Akron firm Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, pursuing a mostly corporate practice. He watched companies such as Roadway Express grow from a regional trucking business to a billion-dollar enterprise.

A great family man, Dwight traveled with his wife, Gretchen (Booth), and their children by freighter to Scandinavia in 1955, by station wagon to Wyoming in 1961, and by plane to Bermuda in 1963 and 1964. More recently he and Gretchen visited Mexico, Central America, and Italy.

Surviving, besides Gretchen, are a son, Dwight L. II (named for his grandfather); a daughter, Kathryn; and three grandsons. To them, we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1934