[243]RETIRED MTSU BIOLOGY PROFESSOR EMERITUS WISER DIES

Release date: Dec. 23, 2008


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RETIRED MTSU BIOLOGY PROFESSOR EMERITUS WISER DIES


(MURFREESBORO) — Dr. C. Wymer Wiser, retired professor emeritus of biology who spent nearly 40 years teaching at MTSU, died Dec. 21 in Murfreesboro. He was 85.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Woodfin Memorial Chapel (615-893-5151 or woodfinchapel.com). Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, at Woodfin Memorial Chapel.
“He served as adviser to the Beta Beta Beta Biology Honor Society for many years and was highly thought of by many students,” Dr. George Murphy, chair of the MTSU biology department, wrote in an e-mail sent to biology faculty and others.
A native of the Fairfield Community in Bedford County, Wiser attended David Lipscomb College in Nashville. He earned his B.S. in 1945 from Harding College in Searcy, Ark., his M.A. from George Peabody College in Nashville in ’46 and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in ’56.
In addition to MTSU, where he taught from 1956 until 1995, Wiser also taught at Jacksonville State University, Lipscomb University and Vanderbilt.
For many years, Wiser taught Bible classes at Minerva Drive Church of Christ, where he preached when the regular minister was away. He also preached 65 years altogether, including 36 years at Fairfield Church of Christ.
Wiser is survived by Laura F. Gribble, his wife of 63 years; sons and daughters-in-law Cy and Rhonda Wiser of Murfreesboro, Gary and Gayle Wiser of Murfreesboro; a brother, Vernon Wiser, of Shelbyville; sisters Mildred Frazier of Murfreesboro and Eunice Driver of Wartrace; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

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