Published in the Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, WA December 23, 2012
Winifred Anderson Huddle, age 91, with her family by her side, passed away at her Bellingham, WA home Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012.
The oldest of four sisters, Winifred was born Oct. 8, 1921 in the rural family home of her father and mother, Garnet and Mamie Anderson, at Flatridge in Grayson County, VA.
Among the first 20,000 women volunteers inducted into its ranks, Winifred in July 1943 enlisted in the newly formed United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve completing basic training at New River (Camp Lejeune), NC. She served with great pride and dignity attaining the rank of sergeant in the USMC Women's Reserve in an ordinance supply unit at the Corps' Depot of Supplies in Philadelphia, PA and was honorably discharged at Arlington, VA in November 1945.
Before her service to her country, Winifred attended and graduated from Oak Hill Academy, a private rural preparatory school at Mouth of Wilson, VA. After World War II she enrolled in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville graduating in late 1948 with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree focusing on Social Geography also receiving a permanent State of Tennessee High School Teaching Certificate. After moving to Bellingham with her family in the late 1960s, she attended Western Washington State College completing course work in library science and education accreditation to obtain a State of Washington teaching certificate.
Winifred married Jerry H. Huddle in November 1948 at Knoxville, TN, while they both attended UT. They made family homes, until Jerry's death in 1998, in Everett, Mount Vernon and Bellingham, where she continued to live.
During her life Winifred worked with and for her husband at Tyee Mortgage Company of Everett, WA. In later years, Winifred also was a long-term substitute teacher for the Bellingham School District and a library clerk at the Bellingham Public Library where she retired from public service. Her last formal job was as an assistant library clerk for the Bellingham Herald.
Her family's history was highly important to her and she helped trace her ancestry back through the American Revolutionary War and colonial Massachusetts to roots in Puritan England. She corresponded with and provided information to the Grayson County Historical Society and as a library clerk here she gave special attention to documenting local history. Her personal papers contain considerable detail and photographs of the interwoven histories of the Anderson, Long, Roberts, Hash and Cornett families of southwest Virginia as well as the Huddle-Hewett family here in Washington.
A woman of letters, throughout her adult life Winifred wrote weekly to many in her East Coast family and to her Marine Corps unit buddies, until the last, writing each letter long-hand, posting them via the U.S. Postal Service.
From her youth she enjoyed walking in the Southwest Virginia foothills and later with her husband and family went on countless hikes, backpack trips and snowshoe outings in the Cascades and Olympics. She and husband Jerry regularly explored interior British Columbia learning about its pioneer, prospecting, mining and geological histories. They also enjoyed pilgrimages to Montana, especially the National Bison Range, to the high desert of Eastern Oregon and the Pacific Coast of Washington.
Being the daughter of a farmer, she believed deeply in conserving the land, its trees, water, soil and living creatures. She loved natural history, encouraging wildlife around her urban Bellingham home by planting a diversity of native and non-native plants providing cover and food for numerous bird species, cotton-tailed rabbits, gray squirrels, butterflies, garter snakes and black-tailed deer. Her yard is designated as a Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. She also participated annually in Cornell University Ornithology Lab bird counts.
During her life she was active in the Parent/Teacher Association and was a den mother for a Mount Vernon, WA Cub Scout pack. Gardening, reading magazines and books, identifying wildflowers as well as listening to classical and popular guitar music, National Public Radio and sports talk radio programs were among her many pastimes. She attended Bellingham Mariners games and looked forward each fall to watching NFL and Tennessee Volunteers games and in the spring, Seattle Mariners baseball.
Winifred Anderson Huddle was preceded in death by her mother, Mamie Long Anderson; father, Garnet Anderson; husband, Jerry Hewett Huddle; sister, Garnetta Coates and her third son, Richard Edward Huddle.
She is survived by her sons Douglas and Jerry, Jr. and daughter-in-law Georgianna, all of Bellingham, WA; grand-daughter Sabory Jeanne Huddle of Tonasket, WA; grandson Nathan A. Huddle and his wife Lauren and her great grandson Maxwell J. Huddle of Seattle, WA. She is also survived by her beloved sisters Mildred Ward of Johnson City, TN and Margaret June Morris with her husband Orrin of Conyers, GA together with nieces Mildred "Midge" Coates, Linda Coates, and nephews Roderick Coates, Bryan Morris and Jon Morris, plus many cousins.
The Huddle family suggests memorial contributions in Winifred's name can be made to the Grayson County Historical Society or Bellingham Public Library Foundation.
Winifred will be buried beside her husband and son in a future graveside memorial at Arlington Municipal Cemetery, Arlington, WA. A small reserve of her ashes and a lock of her hair will be returned to her native Virginia to be placed on Anderson family land.
Winifred Anderson Huddle, age 91, with her family by her side, passed away at her Bellingham, WA home Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012.
The oldest of four sisters, Winifred was born Oct. 8, 1921 in the rural family home of her father and mother, Garnet and Mamie Anderson, at Flatridge in Grayson County, VA.
Among the first 20,000 women volunteers inducted into its ranks, Winifred in July 1943 enlisted in the newly formed United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve completing basic training at New River (Camp Lejeune), NC. She served with great pride and dignity attaining the rank of sergeant in the USMC Women's Reserve in an ordinance supply unit at the Corps' Depot of Supplies in Philadelphia, PA and was honorably discharged at Arlington, VA in November 1945.
Before her service to her country, Winifred attended and graduated from Oak Hill Academy, a private rural preparatory school at Mouth of Wilson, VA. After World War II she enrolled in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville graduating in late 1948 with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree focusing on Social Geography also receiving a permanent State of Tennessee High School Teaching Certificate. After moving to Bellingham with her family in the late 1960s, she attended Western Washington State College completing course work in library science and education accreditation to obtain a State of Washington teaching certificate.
Winifred married Jerry H. Huddle in November 1948 at Knoxville, TN, while they both attended UT. They made family homes, until Jerry's death in 1998, in Everett, Mount Vernon and Bellingham, where she continued to live.
During her life Winifred worked with and for her husband at Tyee Mortgage Company of Everett, WA. In later years, Winifred also was a long-term substitute teacher for the Bellingham School District and a library clerk at the Bellingham Public Library where she retired from public service. Her last formal job was as an assistant library clerk for the Bellingham Herald.
Her family's history was highly important to her and she helped trace her ancestry back through the American Revolutionary War and colonial Massachusetts to roots in Puritan England. She corresponded with and provided information to the Grayson County Historical Society and as a library clerk here she gave special attention to documenting local history. Her personal papers contain considerable detail and photographs of the interwoven histories of the Anderson, Long, Roberts, Hash and Cornett families of southwest Virginia as well as the Huddle-Hewett family here in Washington.
A woman of letters, throughout her adult life Winifred wrote weekly to many in her East Coast family and to her Marine Corps unit buddies, until the last, writing each letter long-hand, posting them via the U.S. Postal Service.
From her youth she enjoyed walking in the Southwest Virginia foothills and later with her husband and family went on countless hikes, backpack trips and snowshoe outings in the Cascades and Olympics. She and husband Jerry regularly explored interior British Columbia learning about its pioneer, prospecting, mining and geological histories. They also enjoyed pilgrimages to Montana, especially the National Bison Range, to the high desert of Eastern Oregon and the Pacific Coast of Washington.
Being the daughter of a farmer, she believed deeply in conserving the land, its trees, water, soil and living creatures. She loved natural history, encouraging wildlife around her urban Bellingham home by planting a diversity of native and non-native plants providing cover and food for numerous bird species, cotton-tailed rabbits, gray squirrels, butterflies, garter snakes and black-tailed deer. Her yard is designated as a Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. She also participated annually in Cornell University Ornithology Lab bird counts.
During her life she was active in the Parent/Teacher Association and was a den mother for a Mount Vernon, WA Cub Scout pack. Gardening, reading magazines and books, identifying wildflowers as well as listening to classical and popular guitar music, National Public Radio and sports talk radio programs were among her many pastimes. She attended Bellingham Mariners games and looked forward each fall to watching NFL and Tennessee Volunteers games and in the spring, Seattle Mariners baseball.
Winifred Anderson Huddle was preceded in death by her mother, Mamie Long Anderson; father, Garnet Anderson; husband, Jerry Hewett Huddle; sister, Garnetta Coates and her third son, Richard Edward Huddle.
She is survived by her sons Douglas and Jerry, Jr. and daughter-in-law Georgianna, all of Bellingham, WA; grand-daughter Sabory Jeanne Huddle of Tonasket, WA; grandson Nathan A. Huddle and his wife Lauren and her great grandson Maxwell J. Huddle of Seattle, WA. She is also survived by her beloved sisters Mildred Ward of Johnson City, TN and Margaret June Morris with her husband Orrin of Conyers, GA together with nieces Mildred "Midge" Coates, Linda Coates, and nephews Roderick Coates, Bryan Morris and Jon Morris, plus many cousins.
The Huddle family suggests memorial contributions in Winifred's name can be made to the Grayson County Historical Society or Bellingham Public Library Foundation.
Winifred will be buried beside her husband and son in a future graveside memorial at Arlington Municipal Cemetery, Arlington, WA. A small reserve of her ashes and a lock of her hair will be returned to her native Virginia to be placed on Anderson family land.
Published in the Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, WA December 23, 2012
Winifred Anderson Huddle, age 91, with her family by her side, passed away at her Bellingham, WA home Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012.
The oldest of four sisters, Winifred was born Oct. 8, 1921 in the rural family home of her father and mother, Garnet and Mamie Anderson, at Flatridge in Grayson County, VA.
Among the first 20,000 women volunteers inducted into its ranks, Winifred in July 1943 enlisted in the newly formed United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve completing basic training at New River (Camp Lejeune), NC. She served with great pride and dignity attaining the rank of sergeant in the USMC Women's Reserve in an ordinance supply unit at the Corps' Depot of Supplies in Philadelphia, PA and was honorably discharged at Arlington, VA in November 1945.
Before her service to her country, Winifred attended and graduated from Oak Hill Academy, a private rural preparatory school at Mouth of Wilson, VA. After World War II she enrolled in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville graduating in late 1948 with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree focusing on Social Geography also receiving a permanent State of Tennessee High School Teaching Certificate. After moving to Bellingham with her family in the late 1960s, she attended Western Washington State College completing course work in library science and education accreditation to obtain a State of Washington teaching certificate.
Winifred married Jerry H. Huddle in November 1948 at Knoxville, TN, while they both attended UT. They made family homes, until Jerry's death in 1998, in Everett, Mount Vernon and Bellingham, where she continued to live.
During her life Winifred worked with and for her husband at Tyee Mortgage Company of Everett, WA. In later years, Winifred also was a long-term substitute teacher for the Bellingham School District and a library clerk at the Bellingham Public Library where she retired from public service. Her last formal job was as an assistant library clerk for the Bellingham Herald.
Her family's history was highly important to her and she helped trace her ancestry back through the American Revolutionary War and colonial Massachusetts to roots in Puritan England. She corresponded with and provided information to the Grayson County Historical Society and as a library clerk here she gave special attention to documenting local history. Her personal papers contain considerable detail and photographs of the interwoven histories of the Anderson, Long, Roberts, Hash and Cornett families of southwest Virginia as well as the Huddle-Hewett family here in Washington.
A woman of letters, throughout her adult life Winifred wrote weekly to many in her East Coast family and to her Marine Corps unit buddies, until the last, writing each letter long-hand, posting them via the U.S. Postal Service.
From her youth she enjoyed walking in the Southwest Virginia foothills and later with her husband and family went on countless hikes, backpack trips and snowshoe outings in the Cascades and Olympics. She and husband Jerry regularly explored interior British Columbia learning about its pioneer, prospecting, mining and geological histories. They also enjoyed pilgrimages to Montana, especially the National Bison Range, to the high desert of Eastern Oregon and the Pacific Coast of Washington.
Being the daughter of a farmer, she believed deeply in conserving the land, its trees, water, soil and living creatures. She loved natural history, encouraging wildlife around her urban Bellingham home by planting a diversity of native and non-native plants providing cover and food for numerous bird species, cotton-tailed rabbits, gray squirrels, butterflies, garter snakes and black-tailed deer. Her yard is designated as a Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. She also participated annually in Cornell University Ornithology Lab bird counts.
During her life she was active in the Parent/Teacher Association and was a den mother for a Mount Vernon, WA Cub Scout pack. Gardening, reading magazines and books, identifying wildflowers as well as listening to classical and popular guitar music, National Public Radio and sports talk radio programs were among her many pastimes. She attended Bellingham Mariners games and looked forward each fall to watching NFL and Tennessee Volunteers games and in the spring, Seattle Mariners baseball.
Winifred Anderson Huddle was preceded in death by her mother, Mamie Long Anderson; father, Garnet Anderson; husband, Jerry Hewett Huddle; sister, Garnetta Coates and her third son, Richard Edward Huddle.
She is survived by her sons Douglas and Jerry, Jr. and daughter-in-law Georgianna, all of Bellingham, WA; grand-daughter Sabory Jeanne Huddle of Tonasket, WA; grandson Nathan A. Huddle and his wife Lauren and her great grandson Maxwell J. Huddle of Seattle, WA. She is also survived by her beloved sisters Mildred Ward of Johnson City, TN and Margaret June Morris with her husband Orrin of Conyers, GA together with nieces Mildred "Midge" Coates, Linda Coates, and nephews Roderick Coates, Bryan Morris and Jon Morris, plus many cousins.
The Huddle family suggests memorial contributions in Winifred's name can be made to the Grayson County Historical Society or Bellingham Public Library Foundation.
Winifred will be buried beside her husband and son in a future graveside memorial at Arlington Municipal Cemetery, Arlington, WA. A small reserve of her ashes and a lock of her hair will be returned to her native Virginia to be placed on Anderson family land.
Winifred Anderson Huddle, age 91, with her family by her side, passed away at her Bellingham, WA home Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012.
The oldest of four sisters, Winifred was born Oct. 8, 1921 in the rural family home of her father and mother, Garnet and Mamie Anderson, at Flatridge in Grayson County, VA.
Among the first 20,000 women volunteers inducted into its ranks, Winifred in July 1943 enlisted in the newly formed United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve completing basic training at New River (Camp Lejeune), NC. She served with great pride and dignity attaining the rank of sergeant in the USMC Women's Reserve in an ordinance supply unit at the Corps' Depot of Supplies in Philadelphia, PA and was honorably discharged at Arlington, VA in November 1945.
Before her service to her country, Winifred attended and graduated from Oak Hill Academy, a private rural preparatory school at Mouth of Wilson, VA. After World War II she enrolled in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville graduating in late 1948 with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree focusing on Social Geography also receiving a permanent State of Tennessee High School Teaching Certificate. After moving to Bellingham with her family in the late 1960s, she attended Western Washington State College completing course work in library science and education accreditation to obtain a State of Washington teaching certificate.
Winifred married Jerry H. Huddle in November 1948 at Knoxville, TN, while they both attended UT. They made family homes, until Jerry's death in 1998, in Everett, Mount Vernon and Bellingham, where she continued to live.
During her life Winifred worked with and for her husband at Tyee Mortgage Company of Everett, WA. In later years, Winifred also was a long-term substitute teacher for the Bellingham School District and a library clerk at the Bellingham Public Library where she retired from public service. Her last formal job was as an assistant library clerk for the Bellingham Herald.
Her family's history was highly important to her and she helped trace her ancestry back through the American Revolutionary War and colonial Massachusetts to roots in Puritan England. She corresponded with and provided information to the Grayson County Historical Society and as a library clerk here she gave special attention to documenting local history. Her personal papers contain considerable detail and photographs of the interwoven histories of the Anderson, Long, Roberts, Hash and Cornett families of southwest Virginia as well as the Huddle-Hewett family here in Washington.
A woman of letters, throughout her adult life Winifred wrote weekly to many in her East Coast family and to her Marine Corps unit buddies, until the last, writing each letter long-hand, posting them via the U.S. Postal Service.
From her youth she enjoyed walking in the Southwest Virginia foothills and later with her husband and family went on countless hikes, backpack trips and snowshoe outings in the Cascades and Olympics. She and husband Jerry regularly explored interior British Columbia learning about its pioneer, prospecting, mining and geological histories. They also enjoyed pilgrimages to Montana, especially the National Bison Range, to the high desert of Eastern Oregon and the Pacific Coast of Washington.
Being the daughter of a farmer, she believed deeply in conserving the land, its trees, water, soil and living creatures. She loved natural history, encouraging wildlife around her urban Bellingham home by planting a diversity of native and non-native plants providing cover and food for numerous bird species, cotton-tailed rabbits, gray squirrels, butterflies, garter snakes and black-tailed deer. Her yard is designated as a Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. She also participated annually in Cornell University Ornithology Lab bird counts.
During her life she was active in the Parent/Teacher Association and was a den mother for a Mount Vernon, WA Cub Scout pack. Gardening, reading magazines and books, identifying wildflowers as well as listening to classical and popular guitar music, National Public Radio and sports talk radio programs were among her many pastimes. She attended Bellingham Mariners games and looked forward each fall to watching NFL and Tennessee Volunteers games and in the spring, Seattle Mariners baseball.
Winifred Anderson Huddle was preceded in death by her mother, Mamie Long Anderson; father, Garnet Anderson; husband, Jerry Hewett Huddle; sister, Garnetta Coates and her third son, Richard Edward Huddle.
She is survived by her sons Douglas and Jerry, Jr. and daughter-in-law Georgianna, all of Bellingham, WA; grand-daughter Sabory Jeanne Huddle of Tonasket, WA; grandson Nathan A. Huddle and his wife Lauren and her great grandson Maxwell J. Huddle of Seattle, WA. She is also survived by her beloved sisters Mildred Ward of Johnson City, TN and Margaret June Morris with her husband Orrin of Conyers, GA together with nieces Mildred "Midge" Coates, Linda Coates, and nephews Roderick Coates, Bryan Morris and Jon Morris, plus many cousins.
The Huddle family suggests memorial contributions in Winifred's name can be made to the Grayson County Historical Society or Bellingham Public Library Foundation.
Winifred will be buried beside her husband and son in a future graveside memorial at Arlington Municipal Cemetery, Arlington, WA. A small reserve of her ashes and a lock of her hair will be returned to her native Virginia to be placed on Anderson family land.
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