Services held for Edward L. Moyers, Jr., Millsaps Life Trustee

Former Millsaps trustee Edward L. Moyers, Jr., 77, died Monday, June 5, in Naples, Fla. Funeral services were held in Ruston, La.

Mr. Moyers served on the executive committee and the development committee of the Millsaps Board of Trustees and was named a Life Trustee of the College in 1998. He was a member of the Founders Society and the Heritage Society and helped to establish The Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve in Yucatan.

A native of Vicksburg, he was a 1947 graduate of Chamberlain-Hunt Military Academy in Port Gibson. He served in the United States Navy in the Korean War and was a 1955 graduate of Louisiana Tech University.

Mr. Moyers had a long and distinguished career in the railroad industry, mainly with the Illinois Central Railroad in Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky and Illinois. In 1985, he became President and C.E.O. of MidSouth Rail Corporation in Jackson. In 1989, he was named President and C.E.O. of Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, serving in that position until 1993. Following a short retirement, he became President and C.E.O. of Southern Pacific Railway in Denver, Colo., in 1993, a position he held until 1995.

He is survived by his wife, Helen H. Moyers of Naples, Fla.; son and daughter-in-law Paul and Alison Moyers and their children Meredith and Alex of Jackson; daughter and son-in-law Nancy and Todd Scarlett and their sons Ben and David of Charlotte, NC; his sister Mary Ann Barker of Hamburg, Ark. and brother and sister-in-law Pat and Linda Moyers of Ruston.

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