ROBERT MACKENZIE RUMMELL

RUMMELL, ROBERT MACKENZIE, husband of Gail McWhorter Rummell, formerly of Birmingham, died in Pittsboro, North Carolina, on July 24 at age 93. Born in Buffalo, New York, on October 12, 1917, he grew up in Oxnard, Calif, and graduated from Pomona College. His graduate work in biology at the University of California, Berkeley, was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Pacific Theater on the Navy aircraft carrier U.S.S. Suwannee. After the war, he embarked on a long career in international banking, which took him and his family to Panama, Mexico City and London. He retired from the Chase Manhattan Bank in 1980 and returned to the United States, living in Massachusetts and, finally, North Carolina. Besides his wife of 59 years, he is survived by two sons, Alexander Rummell of Birmingham and Robert Rummell Jr. of Lawrence, Kansas, a daughter, Abigail Rummell Joseph of McLean, Virginia, and six grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at Elmwood Cemetery on Wednesday, August 24, 11 a.m.