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GEORGE WAYNE CHANCELLOR was born on 13 September 1930, in Mullin, Texas. In 1937 his family moved to Hot Springs, New Mexico. He graduated from Hot Springs High School in 1949. He entered the Military Academy in June 1950 and graduated in June 1954.
He married Georgeanne Rogers of Ranger, Texas, in June 1954.
George's first tour of duty was in Germany from 1955-58. He served in B Battery, 14th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany, as battery executive officer, battery commander and assistant S-3, and also spent one year as aide-de-camp to the division artillery commander, Seventh Army and the chief of staff, Seventh Army in Stuttgart, Germany.
From 1959-61, George attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he received a master of science in chemistry. In 1961, he was assigned as an instructor to the Chemistry Department, USMA. Upon completing a three-year tour, he attended the Field Artillery Career Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Bliss, Texas, and the West Coast Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California.
From July 1965-July 1966, George attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In August 1967 he returned to the Chemistry Department at USMA. During this three-year tour, George was selected as a permanent associate professor and executive officer of the Department of Chemistry.
George received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, in 1972 and returned to West Point, where he served in the Chemistry Department until his retirement on 31 August 1978.
George and Georgeanne retired to El Paso, Texas, where George worked as a math consultant for the Texas Education Agency's Region XIX Education Service Center from 1978-82.
In 1982 George joined Georgeanne in the field of real estate and became very active in the profession. He was on the board of directors of the El Paso Real Estate Credit Union, served as vice-chairman and chairman of the Board of Realtors Grievance Committee, and taught several courses at the Academy of Real Estate. He served as the local president and district director of the Exchange Club of East El Paso.
George died of lung cancer on 3 September 1988. Upon his death, the El Paso Board of Realtors instituted a Memorial Education Fund in his memory with the University of Texas at El Paso. This was a most appropriate tribute, as, above all else, George was a teacher.
He is survived by his wife, Georgeanne; a daughter, Anne Bills; two sons, Wayne M. Chancellor and William J. Chancellor; and six lovely granddaughters.
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