Clarence C. Elebash, age 96, retired Air Force colonel and UWF professor emeritus, died on Saturday, April 16, 2022. He was born in Pensacola, the son of Ann Agee Elebash and Eugene Perrin Elebash, Sr. He attended local schools and graduated from Pensacola High School in 1943.

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1948 and was commissioned in the newly formed U.S. Air Force. Colonel Elebash served 23 years in the USAF as a pilot and staff officer. This included nine years in Washington, DC, and seven years overseas. His tours served abroad were in Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He attended the University of Michigan and received an MBA. His last assignment was Budget Director for Air Force Systems Command.

After retiring from the Air Force, he and his family moved to Tallahassee where he entered the doctoral program at Florida State University. He received a Doctor of Business Administration degree in 1974. He later qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Management Accountant. He had a 21-year career in higher education: two years on the Staff of the Board of Regents in Tallahassee and 19 years at the University of West Florida, where he taught finance. Professor Elebash's last assignment at UWF was as Chairman of the Finance and Economics Department.

Clarence Elebash was preceded in death by his first wife, Patricia Snedeker Elebash; his second wife, Mary Johnson Elebash; three siblings, Emma Randolph Hurst, Eugene P. Elebash, Jr., and Hunley A. Elebash.

Survivors include his four children, Patricia A. Elebash, Barbara E. Wasson (Mark), Alan R. Elebash (Gabriela), all of Atlanta, and Edward H. Elebash, of Jacksonville; four stepchildren, M.C. McNeil, Ill (Joyce), Keith McNeill (Becky), Carol McNeill Franklin (Paul) and Louise Heidenreich (James), all of Tallahassee; sister-in-law Maurine Ashton Elebash, of Wilmington, N.C.; many grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews also survive.

A memorial service will be at 4:00 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church on Thursday, April 21, 2022.

A committal service will be held in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.