The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
Death of Miss Corr Wingo.


year to take the place of teacher in tn
public schools Of Little Rock, Ark, an
there she suffered an attack OF append
citiS. She was taken to hospital an
two operations were performed, one OF
Sunday, the 18th inst, and one on tn
following Thursday, death taking plac
Friday morning, March 10. 1915.
The remains were shipped to he
former home in Martin. Tenn. Funera
services were conducted at the Meth
odist Church at Martin last Saturday
afternoon at O'Clock in the pres
ence of an immense throng of friends
many of whom were from Union City,
some seventy or more persons leaving
here Saturday morning and afternoon
to be present. Rev. @. NJ. Zwingle led
the service, assisted by Rev. Thomas.
The church altar was almost COM
pletely filled with flowers, many more
having been brought and left at other
places, for which no room in the church
could be found.
The pail bearers of the occasion were
Miss Wingo's former pupils here in the
High School-Fred Mailing, Howard
Davidson, Elton Mcclure, Edwin Rog-
ers, c. T. Rippy, Willie B. Forester.
Among the teachers from Union City
were Supt. A. G. Mute, Miss Rosa Neil
Morton, Mrs. j. G. McRee, Miss Eleanor
Spencer, Miss Glare Littleton, Vivian
Reynolds, and of the present senior
class were Mary Dahnke, Lila Caldwell,
Kate Kirkman, Villa Whitson, Vivi-
enne White, Jeanie Garth, Fred Nail
ling, Howard Davidson, Willie B. For
ester. In the music selected for the &C.
casion Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Carlton, of
this city, took part.
The remains were shipped to McKen-
zie, where services were continued on
Sunday and interment took place.
Miss Wingo is the daughter of j. L.
Wingo. Her mother died some years
ago, and she is survived by her father,
her brothers, Hon. Otis Wingo, of De-
Queen, Ark, Congressman from that
part of the State; Carl Wingo, DeQueen;
Floyd Wingo, Stuttgart, Ark. DR.. Tas
Wingo, Martin; Levi Wingo, Jackson,
Tenn; and her sisters, Mrs. Horace
Rigsby, Hot Springs, Ark; Miss Lii
liam Wingo, music teacher at Barlow,
KY, and Miss Kathleen Wingo, teacher
at Little Rock.
Miss Wingo was a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She
gave her heart to God and consecrated
her life to the work of teaching. She
first took the part of tutor in her
fathers family, practically educating
her brothers and sisters. She then
taught in Union City in the City School
for period of sixteen or seventeen
years and gave to the children of Union
City the best part of her life. She was
therefore better known here as teacher
and for the same reason more closely
associated and affiliated personally and
socially with our people. This was in
reality Miss Wingo's home, for where
the friends are there also are the ties of
home.
We have the duty of recording in
these columns the deaths of all our cit
liens or as many of them as the privi-
lege of recording the facts is afforded
1t is our purpose to be conscientious in
these matters. The faults are buried
in the sands, the virtues extolled. If
Miss Wingo had fault it was the i'm
notation of self upon the altar dedi-
Gated to her own brothers and sisters,
to the children of Union City and
10 those of the schools where she has
taught. The truth is that the commits
sion entrusted to her hands has been so
guarded and so faithfully kept
hat imagination fails in the task of re-
yealing her virtues. God gave her the
heart and talent, and for these gifts she
offered her life in the training of minds
Ind souls to the welfare of men and to
he glory of God Miss Wingo loved
Ter work. Her heart and soul went
tut to her pupils and this love and de-
votion was returned an hundredfold
Every recurring commencement proved
hat Miss Wingo was nearer and dearer
n the love of the children and the esteem
If the entire community. She was be-
yond the shadow of doubt one of the
most popular and one of the most con-