Deborah Theado (1951-1999) Deborah Theado, age 48, died in Lansing, Michigan, March 15, 1999. Born March 4, 1951 in Montclair, NJ, Theado had a BA from the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College. She later worked for the State Legislature and the Department of Commerce of Michigan. As a doctoral student in Sociology and African Studies at Michigan State University, she won several awards including the Title VI African Language and Area Studies Fellowships, a Social Science Research Council Predissertation Fellowship, and a Fulbright Dissertation Research Abroad award to conduct her dissertation research in Angola and Kenya. Her PhD dissertation concerned “The Economic Sociology of Kenya’s Lake Victoria Beach Communities: The Intersection of the Economy, Communal Social Relations, and Gender.”

She obtained her PhD from MSU in 1998 while serving as a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Beloit College in Wisconsin. She was a member of the American Sociological Association, the African Studies Association, and the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, as well as a member of the Corporation of the American Friends Service Committee, where she participated on the Editorial Board for the AFSC publication A Certain Terror. She loved music and played the guitar, drums, and classical double bass. She was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and attended meetings in East Lansing, Madison (Wisconsin), and in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

She is survived by her two much loved sons, Peter and David Theado, her close companion, Jude Brandt, parents and siblings in New Jersey, and many loving friends who will sorely miss her. Cremation will be through Estes Leadley Funeral Home, Lansing, MI.

David Wiley, Michigan State University

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