Long-Time Election Official of New Hopewell, Mrs. Myers, Dies
Mrs. Martha Myers, "always the first woman to vote in the New Hopewell precinct," died at 7:15 pm. yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Alice Lee, 703 Bid---- Street SE. Mrs. Myers, who was 80, had been with her daughter since being released from the hospital following an operation in April.
Mrs. Myers had been a life long resident of the New Hopewell Community and had lived for 65 years in the home on Sevierville Pike, Route 9, to which she had come as a bride.
Until ill health forced inactivity, Mrs. Myers took an active interest in political affairs and had for years served as registration clerk for the New Hopewell precinct. Friends recalled today that she had "worked in all the elections and had always been jovial and full of fun with the candidates and the voters at election time." She was also quite active in New Hopewell Baptist Church.
She was the widow of John Myers, a former employee of the Shook's Gap Post Office when it was in the Myers home.
Services will be at 2:30 pm. tomorrow at New Hopewell Baptist Church, Kimberlin Heights Road, with the Rev. Gay Harris, pastor, and the Rev. S.D. Rhodes, Morristown, officiating. Burial will be in New Hopewell Cemetery.
In addition to Mrs. Lee, she leaves another daughter, Mrs. Mattie Haun, Detroit; four sons, Fritz, Frank, and George, Knoxville, and Charlie, Morristown; 15 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren.
--The Knoxville News-Sentinel
10 Aug 1953
Long-Time Election Official of New Hopewell, Mrs. Myers, Dies
Mrs. Martha Myers, "always the first woman to vote in the New Hopewell precinct," died at 7:15 pm. yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Alice Lee, 703 Bid---- Street SE. Mrs. Myers, who was 80, had been with her daughter since being released from the hospital following an operation in April.
Mrs. Myers had been a life long resident of the New Hopewell Community and had lived for 65 years in the home on Sevierville Pike, Route 9, to which she had come as a bride.
Until ill health forced inactivity, Mrs. Myers took an active interest in political affairs and had for years served as registration clerk for the New Hopewell precinct. Friends recalled today that she had "worked in all the elections and had always been jovial and full of fun with the candidates and the voters at election time." She was also quite active in New Hopewell Baptist Church.
She was the widow of John Myers, a former employee of the Shook's Gap Post Office when it was in the Myers home.
Services will be at 2:30 pm. tomorrow at New Hopewell Baptist Church, Kimberlin Heights Road, with the Rev. Gay Harris, pastor, and the Rev. S.D. Rhodes, Morristown, officiating. Burial will be in New Hopewell Cemetery.
In addition to Mrs. Lee, she leaves another daughter, Mrs. Mattie Haun, Detroit; four sons, Fritz, Frank, and George, Knoxville, and Charlie, Morristown; 15 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren.
--The Knoxville News-Sentinel
10 Aug 1953
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