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- George B. Freeman
George B. Freeman
George Buckingham Freeman, 59, husband of the former Janice Eloise Robbins Sedgwick of Boothbay Harbor and Daytona Beach, Florida, died Sunday, February 20 in Little Rock, Arkansas where he had lived for the past 23 years. He was born March 13, 1940 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the only child of Otis Lewis "Nooby" Freeman and Alice Eugene McDade Freeman. He attended grammar school at the Training School of Middle Tennessee State College where his father was an industrial arts professor for 40 years. He graduated from Central High School in 1958 where he was a member of the National Honor Society, Key Club, the band and football team. He was also a member of the Order of Demolay.
Mr. Freeman attended Duke University where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and received his bachelor's degree in 1963 from Middle Tennessee State College where he majored in mathematics and physics. He was elected to the Sigma Club at MTSC.
After teaching physics at Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tenn., he worked as a draftsman in the modeling department at Marshall Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama from 1964 to 1968. In 1968, he transferred to Andros Island, Bahamas where he was a programmer for RCA in real time testing for the Navy until 1972.
He lived in Boothbay Harbor in 1972-73 at the Robbins' home on Fullerton Street with his wife and young son, Karl. Mrs. Freeman taught second grade at Wiscasset Elementary School during much of that school year. He returned to Murfreesboro, Tenn. in 1973 where he attended graduate school at Middle Tennessee State University and worked in Nashville until moving to Little Rock in 1977. He had been a senior systems analyst/programmer with Computer Linguistics and Arkansas Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
An avid model railroader, he was a life member of the National Model Railroad Association, active in the Redstone Model Railroad Club, an early member of the Muscle Shoals Railroad Club and the Arkansas Valley Model Railroad Club. He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Janice Eloise Robbins Sedgwick Freeman of Little Rock, Ark.; his mother, Alice E. McDade Freeman of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; two sons, Karl F. Freeman of Little Rock, Ark. and Nathan B. Freeman of Tampa, Fla.; a granddaughter, Lauren Elizabeth Freeman of Little Rock, Ark.; a grandson, Benjamin Cole Freeman of Tampa, Fla.; two aunts, Virginia McDade Dickey of Jackson, Tenn. and Laura Darnell Collins of Memphis, Tenn.; and several cousins.Funeral services were held February 24 at Jennings and Ayers Funeral Home, Murfreesboro, Tenn. with burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Tenn
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