Services for Dr. Darrell Wayne Pogue, 43, Tyler, formerly of Ada, Okla., are 2 p.m. Friday at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev. Tony Peak will officiate. Burial will follow at Oakman Cemetery .
Dr. Pogue died Monday, Nov. 26, 2007, at Tyler. He was born Aug. 31, 1964, at Wichita Falls, Texas, to R. C. and Ruth Joplin Pogue. He lived in the Ada area most of his life and graduated from Byng High School in 1982. He received a bachelor's of science degree in biology from East Central University in May 1986. While at East Central University, he was a member of Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society, Alpha Chi National Honor Society, a Francisco Hatchett Scholarship recipient, an Outstanding Graduate in Biology, and High Honors Graduate.He received a master's of science degree in zoology from the University of Oklahoma in May 1992, where he received the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology Student Award, the James Thompson Award for Teaching Excellence and the George Miksch Sutton Scholarship recipient. And he received a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Oklahoma in May 1998. He received the UT Tyler President's Scholarly Achievement Award in 2006-2007.
Dr. Pogue was an associate professor of biology at the University of Texas at Tyler.
Dr. Pogue was a member of the American Ornithologist's Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, Wilson Ornithological Society, Oklahoma Ornithological Society, International Association for Landscape Ecology, Southwestern Association of Naturalists, Texas Ornithological Society and the Northeast Texas Field Ornithologists.
Survivors include his parents, R. C. and Ruth Pogue, Oakman , Okla.; two sisters, Cheryl Forehand and husband Charlie, Oakman , and Carol Williamson and husband Mike, Oakman ; a brother, Jimmy Pogue and wife Lisa, Oakman ; two nephews, Weston Pogue and Ryan Pogue; six nieces, Ashley Colon, Stacy Forehand, Lindsay Kates, Kelsey Williamson, Kortney Williamson, and Megan Pogue; and numerous other relatives.
Bearers will be Duane Smith, Terry Pogue, Brett Joplin, Kelly Joplin, Bobby Joplin and William G. Monks Jr.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the Dr. Darrell W. Pogue Scholarship Fund, Office of University Advancement, University of Texas at Tyler, 3900 University Blvd., Tyler, TX 75799.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
