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Lantis Ratcliff, 60, extension dairyman and ruminant nutritionist for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, died May 1 in a Little Rock hospital after a brief illness. Funeral services were held May 2 in Little Rock and burial was in Starkville, MS, on May 3, 1980.
Ratcliff joined the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service in 1964. Prior to that he worked 6 yr as a dairy husbandman with the US Department of Agriculture in Lewisburg, TN.
From 1951 to 1955 he was an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. While there he coached the only Arkansas dairy judging team to win the national event. From 1946 to 1951 he was an instructor at Mississippi State University.
He attended school at Independence, MS, and he earned a diploma from Copiah-Lincoln Junior College. He received his B.S. degree from Mississippi State University and his M.S. degree from Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. at Iowa State University in 1958.
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