Tessel services

Mr. Tessel died Sunday, July 18, 2004, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

He was born June 9, 1944, in Cincinnati, the son of Louis and Anne Silverman Tessel.

Mr. Tessel attended Hebrew School in Cincinnati before moving to California. He graduated from Pasadena High School in California. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in experimental psychology from UCLA and a Master of Arts degree in physiological psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his doctoral degree in pharmacology at the University of Michigan.

He did postgraduate work at the University of Colorado before becoming assistant professor in the department of pharmacology and toxicology at Kansas University’s School of Pharmacy in 1975. He retired as a professor after 28 years.

Mr. Tessel was a member of the editorial advisory board of both the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. He was a member of several professional organizations, including American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Behavioral Pharmacology Society and American Society for Neuroscience.

He married Julie K. Bramschreiber on April 16, 1983, in Oconto Falls, Wis. She survives, of the home.

Other survivors include one son, Zachary, of the home; three daughters, Megan Tessel, of the home, Lauren Levin, Olathe, Jennifer Groves, Simi Valley, Calif., and three grandchildren. He is also survived by an uncle, Sam Silverman, Monrovia, Calif.

The family suggests memorial to the American Heart Assn. or to Lawrence Schools Foundation, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.