Duane Walter Kline

DUANE WALTER KLINE, born Wausau, Wisconsin, September 3, 1924, son of Phoebe Evelyn Jones of Wausau and Arthur Laverne Kline of Chicago, died Saturday, August 28, 2004. He was Manager of the Department of Bank and Public Services of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank from 1954 until his retirement in 1986. A graduate of the University

of Michigan-Ann Arbor, he was fluent in German and an enthusiastic debater and lifelong student of philosophy. A congenital heart defect brought him to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston in 1947. He was the 12th person to receive corrective heart surgery from Dr. Robert E. Gross, who pioneered the procedure. At The Brigham he met a student nurse, Margaret Agnes Mc Williams of St. Albans, Vermont. Two years later he contracted polio. He and Margaret married, and honeymooned at the Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center in Georgia. He successfully coped with severe physical limitations imposed by polio and won the respect and admiration of his colleagues at the Bank. He is survived by his wife Margaret, one daughter, Betsy Dorminey of Athens, Georgia, a grandson, Sterling Dorminey, and a host of friends. The family requests that no flowers be sent. Donations may be made in his memory to the Georgia

Council on Economic Education, of which he was an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors. A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Wednesday , September 1 at Turner Funeral Home in Decatur by Bishop Mark Haverland of St. Stephen's, Athens, Georgia and The Rev. Jack Murray of Charleston, South Carolina.