Dr. Charles W. Dobson, 41, of
8073 Forest Lake Drive
, assistant professor of psychology at
Youngstown
State
University
, died of a heart attack Sunday morning at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center
after being stricken at his home.
Dr. Dobson was born July 12, 1945, in
Salt Lake City
, a son of Donald D. and Carolyn Van Anda Dobson, coming to
Youngstown
in 1983 from
Rock Island
,
Ill.
He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from
Stanford
University
in 1967, his master's in psychology from
Humboldt
State
University
in 1969, and a PhD in psychology from the
University
of
California
at
Riverside
in 1973.
He had taught at
McGill
University
in
Montreal
from 1973 to 1976 and at
Augustana
College
in
Rock Island
from 1976 to 1983, when he joined the YSU faculty.
Besides his wife, the former Denise Walters, whom he
married Jan. 1, 1983, he leaves his parents of
Colorado Springs
; a brother, John M. of
Ames
, Iowa; and two sisters,
Mrs. Julia Hawkins and Miss Pamela J ., both of Washington D.C.
Taken from "The Jambar" at Youngstown State University, published on
November 14, 1986
