George A. Christy
Dec 2005
George A. Christy, 86, a retired professor of finance at the University  of North Texas, died Dec. 18 at his home in Denton, Tex. He had cancer.
A native Washingtonian, Dr. Christy graduated from Roosevelt  High School and Georgetown University. After receiving a master's degree in economics at the University of Illinois in 1942, he joined the  Army and served in the Signal Corps and the Army Air Forces as a paratrooper.
After World War II, he returned to Chicago and worked for Illinois Bell,  then moved to St. Louis and Dallas, where he worked for telephone companies.
He received a doctoral degree in finance in 1962 from the University of  Texas at Austin and began a life in academia at the University of Oregon and, from 1965 to 1990, at the University of North Texas.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth Kerr Christy of Denton; a son, Gordon Christy of Jackson, Miss. and three grandchildren.