Father: Sherman A. Minton Sr
Mother: Gertrude Gurtz
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Memorial services for Dr. Sherman Anthony Minton, 80, Indianapolis, a herpetologist and retired Indiana University professor, will be in All Souls Unitarian Church. There will be no calling. Burial will be private.
He died June 15.
Dr. Minton taught microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine for 36 years, retiring as professor emeritus in 1984.
He also had been a research associate in the department of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History; a Louisiana State University fellow in tropical medicine; and a member of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Dr. Minton had been a delegate to the U.S. Republic of China Binational Seminar on Protein Chemistry and Snake Venoms; visiting professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of New England in Australia; a delegate to World Health Organization-sponsored conferences on venoms in Switzerland in 1979 and in Japan in 1980; and a delegate to conferences on venomous animals and venoms at Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1966 and 1981.
He was author or co-author of 150 works, including technical papers, monographs, articles and encyclopedia entries. He and his wife, Madge S. Rutherford Minton, who survives, wrote two books on reptiles.
He was chairman of the committee that produced the Navy's official publication on poisonous snakes and treatment of their bites, and was a consultant on snakebite and other envenomations for various zoos.
Dr. Minton was a fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science, and he was named speaker of the year in 1982. Past president of the International Society on Toxicology, he was the recipient of its Redi Award in 1985.
He served on the board of governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and was a member of the board of directors and past president of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. He also was a member of the editorial board of Toxicon, a journal.
His father, the late Sherman A. Minton Sr., a former U.S. Supreme Court justice and U.S. senator, is the namesake of the Minton-Capehart Federal Building and the Sherman Minton Bridge, which connects New Albany and Louisville, Ky.
Dr. Minton was a Navy veteran of World War II.
A 1939 graduate of Indiana University, he earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1942.
Dr. Minton and his wife were featured in a June 15 article in The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News, which chronicled their 62-year relationship and 55-year marriage.
Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.
Other survivors include, daughters, Brooks Cervantes, April Kieser, and Holly Minton; brother, John Minton; sister, Mary Anne Callanan; and two grandchildren.
Leppert & Hensley Mortuary is handling arrangements.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Fri., June 18, 1999.
Mother: Gertrude Gurtz
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Memorial services for Dr. Sherman Anthony Minton, 80, Indianapolis, a herpetologist and retired Indiana University professor, will be in All Souls Unitarian Church. There will be no calling. Burial will be private.
He died June 15.
Dr. Minton taught microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine for 36 years, retiring as professor emeritus in 1984.
He also had been a research associate in the department of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History; a Louisiana State University fellow in tropical medicine; and a member of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Dr. Minton had been a delegate to the U.S. Republic of China Binational Seminar on Protein Chemistry and Snake Venoms; visiting professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of New England in Australia; a delegate to World Health Organization-sponsored conferences on venoms in Switzerland in 1979 and in Japan in 1980; and a delegate to conferences on venomous animals and venoms at Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1966 and 1981.
He was author or co-author of 150 works, including technical papers, monographs, articles and encyclopedia entries. He and his wife, Madge S. Rutherford Minton, who survives, wrote two books on reptiles.
He was chairman of the committee that produced the Navy's official publication on poisonous snakes and treatment of their bites, and was a consultant on snakebite and other envenomations for various zoos.
Dr. Minton was a fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science, and he was named speaker of the year in 1982. Past president of the International Society on Toxicology, he was the recipient of its Redi Award in 1985.
He served on the board of governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and was a member of the board of directors and past president of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. He also was a member of the editorial board of Toxicon, a journal.
His father, the late Sherman A. Minton Sr., a former U.S. Supreme Court justice and U.S. senator, is the namesake of the Minton-Capehart Federal Building and the Sherman Minton Bridge, which connects New Albany and Louisville, Ky.
Dr. Minton was a Navy veteran of World War II.
A 1939 graduate of Indiana University, he earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1942.
Dr. Minton and his wife were featured in a June 15 article in The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News, which chronicled their 62-year relationship and 55-year marriage.
Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.
Other survivors include, daughters, Brooks Cervantes, April Kieser, and Holly Minton; brother, John Minton; sister, Mary Anne Callanan; and two grandchildren.
Leppert & Hensley Mortuary is handling arrangements.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Fri., June 18, 1999.
Father: Sherman A. Minton Sr
Mother: Gertrude Gurtz
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Memorial services for Dr. Sherman Anthony Minton, 80, Indianapolis, a herpetologist and retired Indiana University professor, will be in All Souls Unitarian Church. There will be no calling. Burial will be private.
He died June 15.
Dr. Minton taught microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine for 36 years, retiring as professor emeritus in 1984.
He also had been a research associate in the department of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History; a Louisiana State University fellow in tropical medicine; and a member of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Dr. Minton had been a delegate to the U.S. Republic of China Binational Seminar on Protein Chemistry and Snake Venoms; visiting professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of New England in Australia; a delegate to World Health Organization-sponsored conferences on venoms in Switzerland in 1979 and in Japan in 1980; and a delegate to conferences on venomous animals and venoms at Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1966 and 1981.
He was author or co-author of 150 works, including technical papers, monographs, articles and encyclopedia entries. He and his wife, Madge S. Rutherford Minton, who survives, wrote two books on reptiles.
He was chairman of the committee that produced the Navy's official publication on poisonous snakes and treatment of their bites, and was a consultant on snakebite and other envenomations for various zoos.
Dr. Minton was a fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science, and he was named speaker of the year in 1982. Past president of the International Society on Toxicology, he was the recipient of its Redi Award in 1985.
He served on the board of governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and was a member of the board of directors and past president of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. He also was a member of the editorial board of Toxicon, a journal.
His father, the late Sherman A. Minton Sr., a former U.S. Supreme Court justice and U.S. senator, is the namesake of the Minton-Capehart Federal Building and the Sherman Minton Bridge, which connects New Albany and Louisville, Ky.
Dr. Minton was a Navy veteran of World War II.
A 1939 graduate of Indiana University, he earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1942.
Dr. Minton and his wife were featured in a June 15 article in The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News, which chronicled their 62-year relationship and 55-year marriage.
Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.
Other survivors include, daughters, Brooks Cervantes, April Kieser, and Holly Minton; brother, John Minton; sister, Mary Anne Callanan; and two grandchildren.
Leppert & Hensley Mortuary is handling arrangements.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Fri., June 18, 1999.
Mother: Gertrude Gurtz
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Memorial services for Dr. Sherman Anthony Minton, 80, Indianapolis, a herpetologist and retired Indiana University professor, will be in All Souls Unitarian Church. There will be no calling. Burial will be private.
He died June 15.
Dr. Minton taught microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine for 36 years, retiring as professor emeritus in 1984.
He also had been a research associate in the department of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History; a Louisiana State University fellow in tropical medicine; and a member of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Dr. Minton had been a delegate to the U.S. Republic of China Binational Seminar on Protein Chemistry and Snake Venoms; visiting professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of New England in Australia; a delegate to World Health Organization-sponsored conferences on venoms in Switzerland in 1979 and in Japan in 1980; and a delegate to conferences on venomous animals and venoms at Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1966 and 1981.
He was author or co-author of 150 works, including technical papers, monographs, articles and encyclopedia entries. He and his wife, Madge S. Rutherford Minton, who survives, wrote two books on reptiles.
He was chairman of the committee that produced the Navy's official publication on poisonous snakes and treatment of their bites, and was a consultant on snakebite and other envenomations for various zoos.
Dr. Minton was a fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science, and he was named speaker of the year in 1982. Past president of the International Society on Toxicology, he was the recipient of its Redi Award in 1985.
He served on the board of governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and was a member of the board of directors and past president of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. He also was a member of the editorial board of Toxicon, a journal.
His father, the late Sherman A. Minton Sr., a former U.S. Supreme Court justice and U.S. senator, is the namesake of the Minton-Capehart Federal Building and the Sherman Minton Bridge, which connects New Albany and Louisville, Ky.
Dr. Minton was a Navy veteran of World War II.
A 1939 graduate of Indiana University, he earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1942.
Dr. Minton and his wife were featured in a June 15 article in The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News, which chronicled their 62-year relationship and 55-year marriage.
Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.
Other survivors include, daughters, Brooks Cervantes, April Kieser, and Holly Minton; brother, John Minton; sister, Mary Anne Callanan; and two grandchildren.
Leppert & Hensley Mortuary is handling arrangements.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Fri., June 18, 1999.
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