Background
Furbee, Nonnie Louanna was born on May 22, 1937 in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Charles Wesley Junior and Lydia Louise (Shoup) Furbee.
Furbee, Nonnie Louanna was born on May 22, 1937 in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Charles Wesley Junior and Lydia Louise (Shoup) Furbee.
AB, West Virginia University, 1959; Master of Science, Illinois Institute Technology, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1974.
Feature writer, Morgantown (West Virginia) Post Dominion News, 1959; editoral assistant, American Veterinary Medical Association, Chicago, 1959-1963; senior manuscript editor, American Dental Association, Chicago, 1963-1967; instructor in linguistics, Illinois Institute Technology, Chicago, 1967-1969; assistant professor, U. Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1972-1974; assistant professor, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1974-1979; associate professor, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1979-1985; professor, U. Missouri, Columbia, since 1985; department chair, U. Missouri, Columbia, since 1992. Consultant United States Agency for International Development, Bolivia, 1979, I.D. Associations, Columbia, since 1987, The Idea Works, Inc., Columbia, since 1990, Oklahoma Native American Language Development Institute, since 1992.
Fellow American Anthropol. Association; member Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (president 1987-1988), Linguistic Society of America.
Married Vernon Otto Losee, July 28, 1971 (divorced March 1980). Married Robert A. Benfer Junior, May 24, 1981. 1 stepchild, Ardith Louise.