UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 19, 1983
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OBITUARY
Comptrollers officer Tillman dead at 58
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
Ben Tillman, associate director of the KU comptrollers office, died early yesterday morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital from apparent heart failure. He was 58.
Tillman came to KU in 1978 and moved to Lawrence in 1986 from Baldwin City. He started in and worked his way up through the comptrollers office, which is in charge of paying bills and collecting receipt payments for the University, including payroll and tuition.
"It's a great loss to our office and the University," said Katie Shin-
ham, director of the comprollers office.
"All the
Beverly Nightingale, comptroller administrative officer, said she enjoyed working with Tillman.
Ben Tillman
employees liked him a lot," she said.
"He was a very generous man."
Nightingale said that several times Tillman gave students some money out of his pocket when they were
short on funds while paying tuition. The students would pay him back that night.
"He was sort of a soft touch," she said.
"Ben was a tremendous asset for this University," he said.
Dennis Moss, internal audit supervisor, said Tillman had an uncanny ability to work out conflicts between the state government and KU about fiscal matters.
Gary Laws, director of systems development for the comptrollers office, said Tillman was dedicated to his work but always had time for his family.
"He was always talking about his family and grandchildren and how proud he was of them," he said.
Tillman was born Oct. 7,1935, in Crestline,the son of Ben and Alice Davis Tillman.
Services are pending at Warren-
McElain Mortuary.
Survivors include his mother, Alice Vestal, Girard; his wife, Evelyn Tillman, Lawrence; three daughters, Tina Gammon, Lawrence, Pamela Jones, Monnet, Mo., and Katrina Pierce, Olathe; and two sons, John Tillman, Lawrence and William Tillman, Eudora.
Lawrence tradition dies as Woolworth's sets to close store
Kansan staffwriter
Lawrence will lose a piece of American heartland tradition with the coming of the new year when Woolworth's, 913 Massachusetts St., shuts its doors for good.
In the United States and Canada, 970 Woolworth's will be closed as part of the corporation changing their image from a variety-store chain to a specialty retailer corporation.
Some Lawrence residents said they hated to see the dime store era go, but many KU students say they are unaffected by the store's closing.
Tara Givens, Junction City sophomore, said she thought the Woolworth's closing and restructuring had the most impact on parents and grandparents who grew up with Woolworth's.
"The closing doesn't make much difference to me because I usually shop at places like Wal-Mart anyway," Givens said. "It seems like Woolworth's had a lot of old stuff so I'd just as well go to a place where I can find just the Need."
other Woolworth's in Kansas besides Lawrence — Pittsburgh, Wichita, Topeka and Junction City — the Christmas of 1993 will be the last time employees will stock the store's shelves with dolls, stockings and cards to sell to customers.
The Lawrence Woolworth's is by no means the only store being closed in Kansas by the Woolworth Corporation based in New York. For four
Margaret Bishop, Lawrence Woolworth's manager, said she did not know specific dates for closing sales.
"We're planning to be here until Christmas, but after that we're doing whatever they're telling us to do," she said.
Francis Trachter, Woolworth's New York headquarters spokesperson,
said the corporation had set financial objectives for each of its stores. The stores that did not meet the objectives were being closed.
The F.W. Woolworth company now operates 10 Burger King franchises, Footlocker stores, Northern Reflections and other retail stores.
More than 13,000 jobs will be cut. In Kansas alone, 20 full-time and 32 parttime employees will be jobless in January. But Trachter said the corporation will attempt to place present Woolworth's employees with jobs in their other retail stores.
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