Remembrances by John

E-mail from John Wheatley in Montgomery, sent February 20, 2010 10:32:13 PM EST:

One brief little tidbit of information that I could share tonight is that I ran across a little spiral notebook that belonged to Mimi (Mrs. John Fox Wheatley, Sr.) when she attended Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, TN. She had written her name as Jane Allen Marks across the top of the page, so please adjust your records to reflect that as her accurate maiden name. It's interesting that MyMy (Mrs. John Fox Wheatley, Jr.) also attended Ward Belmont College about 20 years later while she was "waiting" for PyPy (John Fox Wheatley, Jr.) to return home as her fiance from serving as a U.S. Marine during World War II on the front lines in Okinawa (you can check out the Sixth Marine Division at their website - they were historically famous for their bravery in WWII).When he returned home from the war, they were married the same year and I was born the next year as the first of their 5 children. PyPy worked at Wheatley Lumber Company for his parents until they closed the lumber company and retired, at which time he accepted the offer from Uncle David Marks to come to work for Marks Fitzgerald Furniture in Birmingham. MyMy worked at the Shelbyville Times-Gazette newspaper and was the society editor there. MyMy and PyPy had both been raised and educated in the small town of Shelbyville and they were very popular in a town where just about everyone knew each other.

Thanks...
John Wheatley in Montgomery

Pictured above: Jane Allen Marks Wheatley and her son, John Fox Wheatley, Jr. (PyPy) in 1944 after Marine training to fight in WWII.