OBITUARY FROM JOURNAL & COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN), NOVEMBER 23, 2001:

William Jennings Black, 92, of Crawfordsville, died at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001, in Ben Hur Nursing in Crawfordsville.

He was a Latin and English teacher in Montgomery County then worked for the United States Postal Service. After World War II, he taught in occupied Japan then taught two years for the U.S. State Department in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was teaching at Hobart High School, when he retired and moved to Crawfordsville.

Born Dec. 30, 1908 in Newtown, he graduated from Crawfordsville High School in 1926 and DePauw University in 1930 and received his master's degree from Indiana University. He was a Rector Scholar at DePauw.

Mr. Black was a member of First Baptist Church, Montgomery County Retired Teachers Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Indiana Classical Conference Inc. and American Legion Post 72. A veteran of World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater.

There are no immediate survivors.

This information was obtained from Newspapers.com. The picture was obtained from the 1958 HHS Memories yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1958Images/.