Adeola Bankole Aboyade-Cole, 39, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, and a former outstanding track and field star, died Friday, March 17, 1989, at Good Samaritan Hospital, Chicago.
Mr. Aboyade-Cole worked as an engineering associate at Austin Co., Chicago, an engineering consulting firm. Before that, he worked 11 years as an industrial engineer at the former J.I. Case, Bettendorf, Iowa, and as supervisor of manufacturing engineering ar FMP Fire Apparatus Division, Orlando, Florida, for a year.
He was the son of Moses and Mabel Aboyade-Cole of Nigeria. They survive.
He married the former Elaine Palmer in 1974. She also survives.
A native of Nigeria, he did undergraduate study on an academic and athletic scholarship at Illinois State University. He went on to receive an industrial engineering degree from the University of Illinois in 1978, and a master of business administration from St. Ambrose University, Davenport, in 1982.
As a track and field star, he participated in numerous international events, including four British Commonwealth Games. He completed for Nigeria in the hurdles in the 1972 XX Olympiad in Munich and the 1976 XXI Olympiad in Montreal. A number of his NCAA track and field and various collegiate field house records in the United States remained unbroken at the time of his passing.
In addition to his widow and parents, he was survived by five daughters, four sisters and three brothers.
SOURCE: Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA): Thursday, March 23, 1989 (page 12)
Mr. Aboyade-Cole worked as an engineering associate at Austin Co., Chicago, an engineering consulting firm. Before that, he worked 11 years as an industrial engineer at the former J.I. Case, Bettendorf, Iowa, and as supervisor of manufacturing engineering ar FMP Fire Apparatus Division, Orlando, Florida, for a year.
He was the son of Moses and Mabel Aboyade-Cole of Nigeria. They survive.
He married the former Elaine Palmer in 1974. She also survives.
A native of Nigeria, he did undergraduate study on an academic and athletic scholarship at Illinois State University. He went on to receive an industrial engineering degree from the University of Illinois in 1978, and a master of business administration from St. Ambrose University, Davenport, in 1982.
As a track and field star, he participated in numerous international events, including four British Commonwealth Games. He completed for Nigeria in the hurdles in the 1972 XX Olympiad in Munich and the 1976 XXI Olympiad in Montreal. A number of his NCAA track and field and various collegiate field house records in the United States remained unbroken at the time of his passing.
In addition to his widow and parents, he was survived by five daughters, four sisters and three brothers.
SOURCE: Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA): Thursday, March 23, 1989 (page 12)
Adeola Bankole Aboyade-Cole, 39, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, and a former outstanding track and field star, died Friday, March 17, 1989, at Good Samaritan Hospital, Chicago.
Mr. Aboyade-Cole worked as an engineering associate at Austin Co., Chicago, an engineering consulting firm. Before that, he worked 11 years as an industrial engineer at the former J.I. Case, Bettendorf, Iowa, and as supervisor of manufacturing engineering ar FMP Fire Apparatus Division, Orlando, Florida, for a year.
He was the son of Moses and Mabel Aboyade-Cole of Nigeria. They survive.
He married the former Elaine Palmer in 1974. She also survives.
A native of Nigeria, he did undergraduate study on an academic and athletic scholarship at Illinois State University. He went on to receive an industrial engineering degree from the University of Illinois in 1978, and a master of business administration from St. Ambrose University, Davenport, in 1982.
As a track and field star, he participated in numerous international events, including four British Commonwealth Games. He completed for Nigeria in the hurdles in the 1972 XX Olympiad in Munich and the 1976 XXI Olympiad in Montreal. A number of his NCAA track and field and various collegiate field house records in the United States remained unbroken at the time of his passing.
In addition to his widow and parents, he was survived by five daughters, four sisters and three brothers.
SOURCE: Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA): Thursday, March 23, 1989 (page 12)
Mr. Aboyade-Cole worked as an engineering associate at Austin Co., Chicago, an engineering consulting firm. Before that, he worked 11 years as an industrial engineer at the former J.I. Case, Bettendorf, Iowa, and as supervisor of manufacturing engineering ar FMP Fire Apparatus Division, Orlando, Florida, for a year.
He was the son of Moses and Mabel Aboyade-Cole of Nigeria. They survive.
He married the former Elaine Palmer in 1974. She also survives.
A native of Nigeria, he did undergraduate study on an academic and athletic scholarship at Illinois State University. He went on to receive an industrial engineering degree from the University of Illinois in 1978, and a master of business administration from St. Ambrose University, Davenport, in 1982.
As a track and field star, he participated in numerous international events, including four British Commonwealth Games. He completed for Nigeria in the hurdles in the 1972 XX Olympiad in Munich and the 1976 XXI Olympiad in Montreal. A number of his NCAA track and field and various collegiate field house records in the United States remained unbroken at the time of his passing.
In addition to his widow and parents, he was survived by five daughters, four sisters and three brothers.
SOURCE: Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA): Thursday, March 23, 1989 (page 12)
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