Jesse Q. Sealey
Personal
Gender: Male
Date of Death: March 7, 1993
Birth Place: Mount Calm, TX
Death Place: San Antonio, TX
Jesse Q Sealey, 91
Sealey taught at Texas Tech
Jesse Q. Sealey taught biology and other sciences at Texas Tech University for about 40 years.
His research in the sciences helped him develop about 20 college course descriptions for biology classes.
Sealey died Sunday at a local hospital. He was 91.
Born in Mount Calm, he spent much if his early life on the family farm, said his wife, Frances Gilmore Sealey of San Antonio, whom he married in 1947.
His love for nature, plants and animals fueled his desire to study the sciences, she said.
Sealey received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology and geology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1928. He also received a doctorate from the university in 1951.
He served a fellowship at the University of California before beginning his teaching career at Texas Tech.
Sealey researched ecology many years before it became popular, his wife said.
He studied, researched and taught botany and microbiology until he retired in 1968.
After retiring, he continued to work in the sciences, his wife said. One of Sealey’s studies on the prospecting of petroleum was published in the Oil & Gas Journal in 1974.
“He was held in high esteem by his peers,” his wife said.
Sealey also worked on a book entitled, “A Prescription for Human Success and the Key to True Relevance.”
Additional survivors include a son, John Sealey of San Antonio; two sisters, Marie McCarver of Arlington and Lottie Proctor of Jarrell; a brother, Travis Sealey of Burnett; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Services were scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at Sunset Funeral Chapel. Private entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Published in the San Antonio Express-News (TX) – Thursday, March 11, 1993
