CUDD Timothy Alan Cudd died peacefully at Haven Hospice Center in Gainesville, Florida August 26th, 2012.
Tim was born September 2, 1956 in Rapid City, SD.
Tim attended school through Jr. High in Worthington, Ohio and graduated from Mt. Vernon (Ohio) H.S. in 1974; earned a DVM from the University of Tennessee in 1982; practiced veterinary medicine in Lexington, Kentucky where he developed the first private practice equine neo-natal clinic in the U.S.; and earned a Ph.D in physiology at the University of Florida.
In 1994 he joined the Texas A&M faculty where he ran a large NIH funded lab devoted to diagnosing and treating fetal alcohol syndrome and worked to achieve his goal of developing compassionate and caring veterinarians.
He will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
Survivors include his beloved wife, Evelyn; daughter and son-in-law, Kathleen and Avi Baumstein; grandchildren, Anna and Caleb; mother, Bernice Daniels; father and step-mother, Kermit and Anne Cudd; sister and brother-in-law, Ann Cudd and Neal Becker; nephews, Alex and Thomas Becker; brother, Ben Cudd and sister-in-law, Lynn McCarty.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to Haven Hospice in Gainesville, FL or the ALS Society.
Published in The Columbus Dispatch on August 28, 2012.