Madison County Journal
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty, 87, died Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation was 5-7 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday, September 24 at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home on High Street in Jackson. Funeral services were 11 a.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with burial to follow in Lakewood Memorial Park.
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore was born in 1917 in Water Valley, the daughter of Hiram and Mittie Horton Creekmore. When she was 10 years old, Judge Creekmore moved his family to Jackson where she was graduated from Central High School and went on to study at Randolph Macon College, where she became a member of Chi Omega sorority. After spending her junior year at the University of Mississippi, Mittie returned to Randolph Macon where she earned her bachelors degree.
In 1939, Mittie married Walter Andrews Welty, the younger brother of Eudora Welty, who later used this wedding as the happy model for one in her novel The Optimist's Daughter. From the time of her marriage, Mittie was active in Jackson. She was a member of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church and of the Junior League, the Monday Club, the Calliope Club, and the Cute Club (a group of friends who named themselves in the spirit of the fun, which brought them together). After her husband died in 1959, Mittie, like her lifelong friend Katherine Lefoldt, joined the staff of Millsaps College, where she served as post mistress and worked in the bookstore. She retiredfrom this position in 1995. Having lived in the Belhaven neighborhood of Jackson from the age of 10, Mittie moved to St. Catherine s Village in 2000.
Mrs. Welty was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brothers and sisters-in-law Rufus and Ruth, Wade and Bitty, and Hubert Creekmore, and her sister-in-law Eudora Welty, and her brother-in-law Edward Welty.
She is survived by daughter, Elizabeth Welty Thompson and her husband, Fred of Madison; daughter, Mary Alice Welty White and her husband, Donny of Jackson; by granddaughter, Leslie Thompson Jacobs and her husband Michael of Madison; by grandson, Zachary Welty Thompson, his wife Crystal and their daughters, Natalie Bond Thompson and Emily Elizabeth Thompson, all of Madison; by grandson, Donald Alexander White, Jr., of Washington, D.C., grandson, Andrews Welty White of Nashville, Tenn., and granddaughter, Elizabeth Eudora White, of Charlottesville, Virginia; by her nephews, Wade and Jimmy Creekmore of Jackson, and her niece, Betty Creekmore Walker of Madison; and by her sister-in-law, Elinor Saul Welty of Brandon.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 406 Orchard Park, Bldg. #2, Ridgeland, 39157, or to the Eudora Welty Foundation, P. O. Box 55685, Jackson, 39296-5685.
Mrs. Welty's loving spirit, keen mind, and ready sense of humor will endure in the memory of friends and family. As Eudora Welty wrote, "The memory is a living thing and during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives–the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead."
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty, 87, died Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation was 5-7 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday, September 24 at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home on High Street in Jackson. Funeral services were 11 a.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with burial to follow in Lakewood Memorial Park.
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore was born in 1917 in Water Valley, the daughter of Hiram and Mittie Horton Creekmore. When she was 10 years old, Judge Creekmore moved his family to Jackson where she was graduated from Central High School and went on to study at Randolph Macon College, where she became a member of Chi Omega sorority. After spending her junior year at the University of Mississippi, Mittie returned to Randolph Macon where she earned her bachelors degree.
In 1939, Mittie married Walter Andrews Welty, the younger brother of Eudora Welty, who later used this wedding as the happy model for one in her novel The Optimist's Daughter. From the time of her marriage, Mittie was active in Jackson. She was a member of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church and of the Junior League, the Monday Club, the Calliope Club, and the Cute Club (a group of friends who named themselves in the spirit of the fun, which brought them together). After her husband died in 1959, Mittie, like her lifelong friend Katherine Lefoldt, joined the staff of Millsaps College, where she served as post mistress and worked in the bookstore. She retiredfrom this position in 1995. Having lived in the Belhaven neighborhood of Jackson from the age of 10, Mittie moved to St. Catherine s Village in 2000.
Mrs. Welty was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brothers and sisters-in-law Rufus and Ruth, Wade and Bitty, and Hubert Creekmore, and her sister-in-law Eudora Welty, and her brother-in-law Edward Welty.
She is survived by daughter, Elizabeth Welty Thompson and her husband, Fred of Madison; daughter, Mary Alice Welty White and her husband, Donny of Jackson; by granddaughter, Leslie Thompson Jacobs and her husband Michael of Madison; by grandson, Zachary Welty Thompson, his wife Crystal and their daughters, Natalie Bond Thompson and Emily Elizabeth Thompson, all of Madison; by grandson, Donald Alexander White, Jr., of Washington, D.C., grandson, Andrews Welty White of Nashville, Tenn., and granddaughter, Elizabeth Eudora White, of Charlottesville, Virginia; by her nephews, Wade and Jimmy Creekmore of Jackson, and her niece, Betty Creekmore Walker of Madison; and by her sister-in-law, Elinor Saul Welty of Brandon.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 406 Orchard Park, Bldg. #2, Ridgeland, 39157, or to the Eudora Welty Foundation, P. O. Box 55685, Jackson, 39296-5685.
Mrs. Welty's loving spirit, keen mind, and ready sense of humor will endure in the memory of friends and family. As Eudora Welty wrote, "The memory is a living thing and during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives–the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead."
Madison County Journal
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty, 87, died Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation was 5-7 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday, September 24 at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home on High Street in Jackson. Funeral services were 11 a.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with burial to follow in Lakewood Memorial Park.
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore was born in 1917 in Water Valley, the daughter of Hiram and Mittie Horton Creekmore. When she was 10 years old, Judge Creekmore moved his family to Jackson where she was graduated from Central High School and went on to study at Randolph Macon College, where she became a member of Chi Omega sorority. After spending her junior year at the University of Mississippi, Mittie returned to Randolph Macon where she earned her bachelors degree.
In 1939, Mittie married Walter Andrews Welty, the younger brother of Eudora Welty, who later used this wedding as the happy model for one in her novel The Optimist's Daughter. From the time of her marriage, Mittie was active in Jackson. She was a member of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church and of the Junior League, the Monday Club, the Calliope Club, and the Cute Club (a group of friends who named themselves in the spirit of the fun, which brought them together). After her husband died in 1959, Mittie, like her lifelong friend Katherine Lefoldt, joined the staff of Millsaps College, where she served as post mistress and worked in the bookstore. She retiredfrom this position in 1995. Having lived in the Belhaven neighborhood of Jackson from the age of 10, Mittie moved to St. Catherine s Village in 2000.
Mrs. Welty was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brothers and sisters-in-law Rufus and Ruth, Wade and Bitty, and Hubert Creekmore, and her sister-in-law Eudora Welty, and her brother-in-law Edward Welty.
She is survived by daughter, Elizabeth Welty Thompson and her husband, Fred of Madison; daughter, Mary Alice Welty White and her husband, Donny of Jackson; by granddaughter, Leslie Thompson Jacobs and her husband Michael of Madison; by grandson, Zachary Welty Thompson, his wife Crystal and their daughters, Natalie Bond Thompson and Emily Elizabeth Thompson, all of Madison; by grandson, Donald Alexander White, Jr., of Washington, D.C., grandson, Andrews Welty White of Nashville, Tenn., and granddaughter, Elizabeth Eudora White, of Charlottesville, Virginia; by her nephews, Wade and Jimmy Creekmore of Jackson, and her niece, Betty Creekmore Walker of Madison; and by her sister-in-law, Elinor Saul Welty of Brandon.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 406 Orchard Park, Bldg. #2, Ridgeland, 39157, or to the Eudora Welty Foundation, P. O. Box 55685, Jackson, 39296-5685.
Mrs. Welty's loving spirit, keen mind, and ready sense of humor will endure in the memory of friends and family. As Eudora Welty wrote, "The memory is a living thing and during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives–the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead."
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore Welty, 87, died Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation was 5-7 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday, September 24 at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home on High Street in Jackson. Funeral services were 11 a.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with burial to follow in Lakewood Memorial Park.
Mittie Elizabeth Creekmore was born in 1917 in Water Valley, the daughter of Hiram and Mittie Horton Creekmore. When she was 10 years old, Judge Creekmore moved his family to Jackson where she was graduated from Central High School and went on to study at Randolph Macon College, where she became a member of Chi Omega sorority. After spending her junior year at the University of Mississippi, Mittie returned to Randolph Macon where she earned her bachelors degree.
In 1939, Mittie married Walter Andrews Welty, the younger brother of Eudora Welty, who later used this wedding as the happy model for one in her novel The Optimist's Daughter. From the time of her marriage, Mittie was active in Jackson. She was a member of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church and of the Junior League, the Monday Club, the Calliope Club, and the Cute Club (a group of friends who named themselves in the spirit of the fun, which brought them together). After her husband died in 1959, Mittie, like her lifelong friend Katherine Lefoldt, joined the staff of Millsaps College, where she served as post mistress and worked in the bookstore. She retiredfrom this position in 1995. Having lived in the Belhaven neighborhood of Jackson from the age of 10, Mittie moved to St. Catherine s Village in 2000.
Mrs. Welty was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brothers and sisters-in-law Rufus and Ruth, Wade and Bitty, and Hubert Creekmore, and her sister-in-law Eudora Welty, and her brother-in-law Edward Welty.
She is survived by daughter, Elizabeth Welty Thompson and her husband, Fred of Madison; daughter, Mary Alice Welty White and her husband, Donny of Jackson; by granddaughter, Leslie Thompson Jacobs and her husband Michael of Madison; by grandson, Zachary Welty Thompson, his wife Crystal and their daughters, Natalie Bond Thompson and Emily Elizabeth Thompson, all of Madison; by grandson, Donald Alexander White, Jr., of Washington, D.C., grandson, Andrews Welty White of Nashville, Tenn., and granddaughter, Elizabeth Eudora White, of Charlottesville, Virginia; by her nephews, Wade and Jimmy Creekmore of Jackson, and her niece, Betty Creekmore Walker of Madison; and by her sister-in-law, Elinor Saul Welty of Brandon.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 406 Orchard Park, Bldg. #2, Ridgeland, 39157, or to the Eudora Welty Foundation, P. O. Box 55685, Jackson, 39296-5685.
Mrs. Welty's loving spirit, keen mind, and ready sense of humor will endure in the memory of friends and family. As Eudora Welty wrote, "The memory is a living thing and during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives–the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead."
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