Services for David Owen Justice, 64, of Oak Park, Ill., were held Sunday in the Church at Pleasant Hill in Clinton Township

He died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2008, at his residence.

Born in Logansport, Sept. 29, 1943, he was the son of John T. Justice and Martha Been Justice. He was married to Marina Christensen who preceded him in death. In 1989, he was married to Pamela Tate, who survives.

A 1961 graduate of Logansport High School, he was vice president of Lifelong Learning and Suburban Campuses at DePaul University, Chicago, where he also taught and served as dean for over 25 years. He was educated at Wabash College, graduating in 1965, and at Indiana University, majoring in history, education and sociology. He also studied at La Sorbonne, in Paris, and taught and conducted research at Universitat Hamburg in Germany. He was visiting Professor of Education at the University of Memphis.

A varsity wrestler in high school and college, he was a nationally recognized educator and an innovator in adult learning. He led a team of American university educators to assist the new South African Republic's national program for education of adults whose learning needs had been ignored by the apartheid government.

At a critical moment in its organizational structure, he was appointed trustee of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin, Spring Green, Wis., where his unique talent for achieving consensus without rancor brought about the revitalization of a national institution.

Deeply committed to the principle of education for all, particularly adult learners, he was the originator and the driving force behind the extraordinary growth of DePaul University's School of New Learning, a program especially tailored to the needs of adults who, because of circumstances or low expectations, had no chance of college just after high school.

In 2005, he was honored by the establishment of the David O. Justice Professorship of Developmental Economics at Wabash College, endowed by Bruce Baker, L.H.D., and created for the study of economic development in third world countries.

In 2007, he was presented with the Via Sapientae Award by DePaul University; the highest academic honor De- Paul bestows on faculty and staff who have made distinctive and extraordinary contributions to the University. That same year, he received the Keeton Award from the Trustees of the Counsel for Adult and Experiential Learning.

He grew up on his parents' farm in Clinton Township, Cass County, attended Clymers Elementary School and graduated in a class of five to a class of 300 at Logansport High School. He has donated over one mile of riverbank along the south shore of the Wabash River opposite Georgetown, and the farm adjoining it, to the Northern Indiana Citizens Helping Ecosystems Survive (NICHES). Recently, he donated a second farm where had established a forest, to the same environmental organization.

Also surviving are his parents, John T. Justice and Martha Been Justice of Logansport; a daughter, Kirsten Justice, Raleigh, N.C.; a son, Owen Justice (wife: Catherine), St. Paul, Minn.; two grandchildren, John Bundy and Marina Bundy, Raleigh, N.C.; a brother, Courtney B. Justice (wife: Diana), Logansport; a brother-in-law, Larry Tate (wife: Julie), Rock Island, Ill.; three nieces Susannah Hall-Justice (husband: Brian Coulter), West Lafayette, Emily Justice, Logansport, and Andon Tate. Chicago; two nephews, Adam Tate and Lt. Larry Tate III USN (wife: Jeanette); and grandniece Ella Monet Justice-Coulter, West Lafayette.

Burial will be at Keeps Creek Cemetery, the Church in Clinton Township. A Memorial Gathering will also be held from 4 pm until time of service at 5 p.m. on the following Sunday, Sept. 21, at Unity Temple, 875 W. Lake Street, Oak Park, Ill.

Memorial donations may be made to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, 383 Main Ave., Norwich, CT 06851, or www.active.com/donate/umbrellamarathon08/ run4justice.

Funeral arrangements by Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home 708.383.3191.