Mangum, Eugene

Mangum, Eugene—Age sixty years. April 28, 1988. Survived by wife, Mary Jo Elam Mangum; son, David George Mangum; daughter, Geni Mangum, all of Nashville; daughter and son-in-law, Josephine and Mark Wesley McMeen, Columbia, TN; brother, Joseph Henry Mangum; aunt, Sadie Dunn Keaton, both of Nashville. Remains are at the Woodbine Funeral Home, Hickory Chapel, 5852 Honorary pallbearers, Paul Stinson, Kennedy Green, and George Hatfield. Active pallbearers, Dr. Daniel Baccus, Gene Brosky, C.W. Foster, Donald Harned, Glenn Harrison, Charles McMeen, Erlon Puckett, Merle Smith, Hoyte Nolensville Road, where services will be conducted Sunday afternoon, May 1, at three o’clock by Charles Bullington and Leo Snow. Snow, Charlie Tarkington, and Robert Wright. Private graveside services will be conducted at the convenience of the family.

The Tennessean…Sunday, May 17, 1953 Mangum-Elam Vows Are Said

Mrs. Floyd Hoover Elam announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Jo, to Eugene Mangum, son of George Thomas Mangum and the late Mrs. Mangum. The wedding took place Friday night at the home of the officiant, Samuel P. Pittman on Pittman place. For her wedding the bride chose a pink shantung suit with white accessories and a white orchid shoulder corsage. Mr. and Mrs. Erlon Fields Puckett, Jr., were the attendants and Mrs. Puckett word a brown suit with brown and white accessories and a corsage of cymbidium orchids. The couple will reside on East Greenwood Avenue. The bride, daughter of the late Mr. Elam, was graduated from East Nashville High School and received a B.A. degree from David Lipscomb College. She is now a member of the faculty of Bordeaux High School. Mr. Mangum was graduated from the high school department of David Lipscomb and received his A.B. degree from the college department. He also received his M.A. degree from Peabody College. He is a member of the Berry School faculty.

The Tennessean, December 16, 1961 Lipscomb Alumni Elect New Officers

The Davidson County chapter of the David Lipscomb College Alumni Association has elected the following officers for 1961-1962. Lynch B. Corley, Jr., president; Eugene Mangum, vice-president’ and Mrs. Hester T. Golden, secretary. They succeed Billy Akin, president; Bruce (Jack) Sinclair, vice-president; and Miss Clara Mae Benedict, secretary Corley, member of a local insurance firm, attended Lipscomb from 1946 to 1948 and received the B.A. degree at Vanderbilt University in 1950. He is married to the former Miss Marcia Crothers of Memphis. They have five children. Mangum and his wife, the former Miss Mary Jo Elam of Nashville, were graduated from Lipscomb in 1948. They have two children. Mrs. Golden, who graduated from Lipscomb in 1943, is the former Miss Hester lden is deceased, and she has one daughter.

Below is a picture of Principal Mangum escorting the first African-American child into his elementary school.