Obituary of Berkley P.h.D

CHAUTAUQUA, NY - Please join us in celebrating the life of Berkley Branche Eddins, born 23 September 1926 in Memphis, Tennessee, passed away 13 August, 2009 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and uncle. A Celebration of his life will be held on Sunday, 16 August, 3 pm, in the Hall of Philosophy on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution. A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School, Howard University, and the University of Michigan, he was a leader in his field of Social Philosophy. He taught for almost 30 years on the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo, serving briefly as the Department Chair for Philosophy, and mentoring many students through their collegiate life. An amateur musician as well, he sang in choirs for 66 years, and music was always one of the greatest joys of his life. For the past 19 years he and his wife, Essie, lived on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution where he was active in the Motet Choir and an ardent supporter of the Arts. Berkley is survived by Essie, their son William and his wife Jennifer, his grandsons Raef and Riley, daughter Gloria Jean and her daughters NaTasha and NaTesha, his great grandson Dylan Elijah Roberson, his sister Barbara, niece Ramelle, nephew Lovell and wife Annette and their son Deangelo Lovell, his niece Karen, and many family and friends too numerous to mention. He will be greatly missed. Memorials are suggested to the Chautauqua Institution, One Ames Avenue, PO Box 28, Chautauqua, NY 14722. Funeral arrangements are by the MASON Funeral Home, Westfield, NY 14787. Logon to www.masonfuneral.com to send a message of sympathy to his family.