T.-Brent-Obituary

T. David Brent

Chicago, Illinois

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Brent, T. DavidT. David Brent, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1977, died August 18, 76 years of age. He leaves behind his widow Jataun Martin and two sons, Robert and Matthew, from his first wife, Margaret O'Dell. The eldest son of Stuart Brent, a noted bookseller in Chicago, and Jeanette Levin...

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I am sorry I was unable to be at the graveside to say my final farewell to my friend and colleague. His guidance and encouragement meant a lot me and a Iearned much from him about both careful reading and concise and clear writing. May his memory be for a blessing.

I knew David for almost my whole life, and found him to be a mountain of a man despite his modest stature. Dr. Brent had a deep love of knowledge, spirituality, and humanity which he shared liberally with anyone brave enough to get past his occasionally gruff persona. Over the many summers I visited him at his lake house in northern Wisconsin, David became like an uncle to me; sharing words of wisdom over a gin and tonic and under a star streaked night sky. I will forever think of him when I...

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