Dr. Andrew Smith Moreland passed away on September 11, 2016 in Lawton, Oklahoma. Private funeral arrangements are being arranged through Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Born in Chester, Pennsylvania on September 14, 1924 to Isabelle and Robert Moreland, the family relocated to Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1927. He attended the Atlantic City Public Schools and graduated from high school in the Class of 1943.

Enlisting as a cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, Andrew trained in the Gulf Coast Command and was awarded his pilot wings as a 2nd Lieutenant at Brooks Field in San Antonio, Texas in 1944. He was assigned as a flight instructor at Blackland Army Air Base at Waco, Texas, where he remained for seven months. Volunteering for overseas duty, he joined the 235th Troop Carrier Command, located in England and France. During the remainder of the war, he served as a pilot ferrying gasoline to the front and returning wounded to hospitals behind the lines. He participated in the Rhine River Crossing and the Battle of the Bulge as a glider pilot for which he received Air Medals.

Following his discharge, he enrolled at Trenton State College in New Jersey and graduated with a B.S. in Education. He then attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received a Master of Arts Degree. His terminal degree was a Doctorate in Educational Administration from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

In December of 1949 he married Virginia Wright in Margate, New Jersey and both began their teaching careers in Atlantic City, N.J. During his 30 years in the field of education, he was a Teacher, Principal, City Superintendent, County Superintendent and President of the first two-year college in New Jersey, Ocean County College in Toms River.

Upon retiring from New Jersey, Andy directed a nationwide research project, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which measured productivity in twenty-two large two year colleges throughout the United States. Thereafter, he assumed the presidency of Cochise Community College in Douglas, Arizona, and then retired to Rockwall, Texas. The family moved to Denison, Texas in 1999.

He is survived by his wife, Virginia, and their two daughters: Dr. Cindy Sheppard, her husband, Dr. Ernest Sheppard of Lawton, OK, and their three children, Dr. Scott Sheppard of Lawton, Brooke Sheppard of Oklahoma City, and Wade Sheppard, of Conroe, Texas; and Jill Berg, her husband, Pete Berg, and their two daughters, Lana and Jaime, of Montana.

Memorial contributions to Home Hospice of Grayson County Texas, 505 West Center Street, Sherman, Texas 75091 would be greatly appreciated by the family.