Granville F. Atkinson, 93, accountant, instructor
Granville Forrest Atkinson, a certified public accountant and instructor at the Johns Hopkins University for more than 40 years, died Wednesday of Alzheimer's disease at Brightwood Center in Lutherville. He was 93.
Mr. Atkinson was born and raised in Mount Holly, N.J., and moved to Baltimore after earning a degree in accounting from Rider College in 1928.
He began his career with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., and in 1935 joined Crosse & Blackwell in Baltimore. He was a member of its executive management committee until 1962. That year, he went into practice as a full-time CPA in Baltimore, which he continued until retirement in 1996.
Mr. Atkinson taught auditing and federal and state taxation at Hopkins from 1943 to 1986.
Throughout his career, he was active in various accounting organizations. He was president of the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants in the late 1960s, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a past international vice president and president of the Baltimore chapter of the National Association of Accountants, and a member of Financial Executives Institute.
Mr. Atkinson published articles titled Minimizing Taxes and Profit Control by Territories and Products in the Food Processing Industry. The latter received a merit award from the NAA and international recognition.
Mr. Atkinson lived in his house on Bellona Avenue in Riderwood from 1948 until moving to the Brightwood nursing facility four years ago. He had been an active member of Second Presbyterian Church of Baltimore for more than 50 years, and was a former member of the Baltimore Country Club, Merchants Club, Johns Hopkins Club and Mount Washington Club.
Mr. Atkinson's first wife, Ruth L. Ehreinstrom, died in 1962. In 1974, he married Dorothy B. Sloan, who survives him.
He also is survived by a daughter, Joan A. Hamilton of Salisbury; and two grandsons.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Second Presbyterian Church, 4200 St. Paul St.