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Subject: [TNSCOTT] Obits From The Oak Ridger 26 Apr 2002
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:16:28 EDT
>From The Oak Ridger 26 Apr 2002
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, at St.
Stephen's Episcopal Church forALICE LEONA MIKEL DUFFIELD, 105, of Oak Ridge.
Mrs. Duffield died Sunday, April 14, 2002, at the home of her daughter and
son-in-law, Audrey and John James "Jim" Henry of Pennsylvania Avenue, where
she had lived for the past 30 years. She was the oldest woman veteran in the
state and served stateside with the Army Nurse Corps during World War I.
Upon learning of Mrs. Duffield's death, Commissioner Wendell Gilbert,
Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs, said "she was our state's oldest
living female veteran and, with her passing, reminds us all of the service
and sacrifice of Tennessee's more than one-half-million living veterans."
Five weeks before her death, Mrs. Duffield was interviewed as part of a
project sponsored by the Library of Congress to record the memoirs of the
veterans of both world wars. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs
in Nashville, only three of her fellow "doughboys" survive in Tennessee. Two
of them were unable to be interviewed by the Library of Congress. Mrs.
Duffield, however, was able to describe the civilian clothes she bought when
the armistice was signed.
She met her third husband, McKinley Hobart Duffield, in Whipple, Ariz., where
he had been hospitalized for six years. It was another six years before she
was convinced he would not die a premature death, as did her first two
husbands. They married in May 1934 in Prescott, Ariz. He died March 29, 1985,
at the age of 88.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations in Mrs.
Duffield's name to the music department of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
212 N. Tulane Ave., Oak Ridge, TN 37830.
Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home handled the arrangements.
MARY ELLEN PERRY, 76, of Oak Ridge, died Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at her
home.
Born Aug. 18, 1925, she was the daughter of Walter and Etta Vowell Wells, who
are deceased.
Mrs. Perry was a former resident of the Medford community of Lake City and
attended Clinch River Baptist Church. Her family described her as a loving
mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
She is survived by her son, Anthony Steve Perry; and four daughters, Brenda
Sue Maloy and her husband, Gary, Sandra Kay Wetmore and her husband, Bill,
Janis Elaine Stamper and her husband, Clifford, and Teresa Ann Vance and her
husband, Steve.
Mrs. Perry is also survived by three brothers, Walter Wells, William Wells
and Eugene Wells; three sisters, Anna Belle Shelton, Kitty Payne and Viola
Shelton; and by nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by another brother,
Vantroy Wells.
The funeral will be held at 8 tonight, April 26, in the chapel of Cox-Martin
Funeral Home in Lake City with the Rev. Tom Byrge officiating.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, at Foust
Cemetery in the Medford community.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
JOHN HENRY LETT, 73, of Clinton, died Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at St.
Mary's Medical Center of Campbell County.
Mr. Lett is survived by his wife, Betty Disney Lett; his daughter-in-law,
Jackie Lett of Knoxville; his brother, Horace Lett Jr. and his wife,
Charlotte, of LaFollette; and a granddaughter.
The funeral will be held at 8:30 tonight, April 26, in the chapel of
Cox-Martin Funeral Home in Lake City with the Rev. Lowell Elkins officiating.
A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Oak
Ridge Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:30 tonight at the funeral home.
ROBERT "Bob" KEMPER Jr., 76, of Oak Ridge, died this morning, April 26, 2002,
at the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville.
Weatherford Mortuary is handling the arrangements, which were incomplete this
morning.
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