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From: "Mary Ann Booher" <>
Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Deeter/McCrae at age 104- very interest. as hobbywasgenealogy
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:20:13 -0400
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Pam and Patrick.

Mrs. Deeter's Obit is available on line from Baird Funeral Home website.

Mary Ann
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From: "pam holeton" <>
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Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Deeter/McCrae at age 104- very interest. as hobby
wasgenealogy


>I am connected through the Deeter line. I am also still trying to get ahold
>of last tuesdays Troy paper. I looked in all this past weeks Piqua papers,
>but didnt see any thing about him
> Roeth-Edison Biology.
> --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Patrick McGarry <> wrote:
> From: Patrick McGarry <>
> Subject: [OHMIAMI] Deeter/McCrae at age 104- very interest. as hobby was
> genealogy
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> Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 11:27 PM
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> This is interesting. My father used to work with Hugh Morton
> (1920-2007)(Great
> photographer and well missed), who owned Grandfather Mountain near Boone
> NC.
> They have the Scottish Highland Games there every year. Hugh's grandfather
> was Hugh Macrae of Wilmington NC, and has park named after him- same
> family as
> hers:
> If somebody has her Deeter husbands connection, please send:
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> http://www.tdn-net.com/main.asp?SectionID=12&SubSectionID=13&ArticleID=95062&TM=83616.59
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> Mary McCrea Deeter
> TROY - Mary McCrea Deeter, 104, formerly of Troy, died Wednesday March 18,
> 2009, at the Larksfield Place Health Care Center, Wichita, Kan.
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> She was born Feb. 23, 1905, to Frederick Augustus Bradford McCrea and Rose
> Adelaide Hicks McCrea in Wetaskiwin, then Northwest Territory, Canada.
>
> She attended Sisters of Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Edmonton
> Alberta,
> Canada, and did post graduate work at St. Mary's Hospital School of
> Nursing,
> Rochester, Minn.
>
> She continued her studies at Cleveland Clinic Hospital where she also held
> a
> supervisory position for five years. In 1930, she wed Don Favorite Deeter,
> M.D.,
> resident surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, who later became a prominent
> surgeon
> in Miami County. He preceded her in death in 1949.
>
> She is survived by her daughter, Diana Williams (Richard) of Wichita,
> Kan.; a
> grandson, Benjamin Deeter Williams (Kim); a granddaughter, Jane Gillett
> (James);
> great-grandchildren. Rebecca and Angus Williams and William Gillett.
>
> She had four brothers, deceased.
>
> Since 2002 she has lived in Wichita. Mary was a lifelong member of the
> Anglican
> Church, a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, Troy, since 1937 where she
> served
> as president of Trinity Church Woman's Auxiliary, director of the Altar
> Guild and Book of Remembrance Secretary.
>
> She also was a member of St. Hilda's Guild. St. Hilda's sent parcels of
> clothing to Miss Connie Schlosser, nurse at a front line medical station
> in
> Vietnam.
>
> Mary served on the Woman's Auxiliary to the National Council for the
> Diocese of Southern Ohio as Supply Secretary to the Missions.
>
> Mary was a past president of the Miami County Medical Auxiliary, and was
> appointed to the State Board of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Ohio State
> Medical Society as Chair of Medical Careers. Mary researched and compiled
> the
> first resource book in Ohio for students interested in health sciences. It
> was
> titled "Sources of Scholarships and Loans for Students Interested in
> Para-Medical Careers in Ohio."
>
> The publication brought recognition to the state auxiliary and an award to
> the
> Miami County Auxiliary.
>
> Mary was interested in genealogical research. She was a life member of the
> Fort
> Edward, N.Y., Historical Society and a member of the Clan McCrea Society
> of
> North America, Wilmington, N.C.
>
> She also supported the Miami County Historical Society, the Troy
> Historical
> Society and the Troy Historical Museum Society.
>
> Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Episcopal
> Church,
> Troy.
>
> Visitation for friends of the family will be held prior to the service
> from
> 10:30-11 a.m. Saturday. Internment will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery,
> Pleasant Hill.
>
> The family requests no flowers. Memorial contributions may be made to the
> Troy
> Foundation's Don F. and Mary McCrea Deeter Family Fund, which benefits
> Brukner Nature Center and Friends of Hayner, or the Don F. Deeter Memorial
> Fund
> benefiting Trinity Episcopal Church.
>
> Baird Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
>
> Friends may express condolences to the family through
> www.bairdfuneralhome.com
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