The Greenwood Commonwealth, June 2, 2007: Graveside services for Cecil Scruggs Jenkins, 105, of Greenwood, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Merrill Cemetery in Carroll County.
Mrs. Jenkins died Thursday, May 31, 2007, at Golden Age Nursing Home.
She was a former teacher and homemaker. A native of the Coila area in Carroll County, she was born Jan. 14, 1902, to the late John Walter and Annie Merrill Quarles Scruggs. She was known affectionately as "Tutter" to family and friends, and was a lifelong member of First Christian Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John B. [Jenkins]; her parents; three brothers, John Merrill Scruggs, Raynor Woods Scruggs and Benjamin Isham Scruggs; and two sisters, Lucy Frances Scruggs Wood and Mary Scruggs Ewbank.
She is survived by five nieces, Ann Merrill Ewbank Alexander, Jane Merrill Scruggs Watkins, Susan Faye Scruggs Rigby, Sarah Elizabeth Scruggs Stewart and Nancy Lee Scruggs Allain; and three nephews, John Perry Scruggs, Richard Allen Wood Jr. and Don Taylor Wood.
Members of the family will conduct the services.
Wilson & Knight Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
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Tutter's passing was noted on the front page of the Greenwood Commonwealth. She lived to be 105 years old. But to those of us who knew her, it was not how long she lived, but how she lived. Tutter was a good person. She helped support her family when her father died when she was just a young girl. She taught school – she was a strong believer in education – she once even sent a cat to college.
In later years, she had a garden and was one of the founding members of the Curb Market, across from the Christian Church.
And she took care of her mother – Annie Merrill Quarles "Nannaw" lived to be 99 ½ and stayed most of her time with Tutter and John B.
And I would be remiss if I did not – on behalf of all of us – thank Allen and Charlene for taking care of Tutter. They took care of her business, of her financial affairs and of her person – from the day John B. died until this morning when Allen was down at the office typing up the Order of Service you hold in your hands. Thank you.
Tutter leaves a legacy with – and in – all of us.
To us "kids" she and John B. provided us with "our place in the country." We fished, hunted, played army, worked her buttermilk churn and learned country life – things most kids today never know.
She left us the legacy of her "little bitty biscuits" and her buttermilk sherbet – and if anyone here has that recipe, please see Barbara after the service.
Now Tutter has crossed the River Jordan to rest on the other side. She is reunited with John B. – her father that died when she was so young; her mother whom she cared for; her sisters Mary and Lucy; her brothers Raynor and Ben – her family is together again.
We all may not – as Tutter was – be given the opportunity to live long. But we are all given the opportunity to live a good life.
Thank you for coming.
******
Mrs. Jenkins was a close friend of mine the last fifteen years of her life. She was a great lady and a true Christian who loved her Lord Jesus Christ.
I love and miss you, Tutter....Bea.
Mrs. Jenkins died Thursday, May 31, 2007, at Golden Age Nursing Home.
She was a former teacher and homemaker. A native of the Coila area in Carroll County, she was born Jan. 14, 1902, to the late John Walter and Annie Merrill Quarles Scruggs. She was known affectionately as "Tutter" to family and friends, and was a lifelong member of First Christian Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John B. [Jenkins]; her parents; three brothers, John Merrill Scruggs, Raynor Woods Scruggs and Benjamin Isham Scruggs; and two sisters, Lucy Frances Scruggs Wood and Mary Scruggs Ewbank.
She is survived by five nieces, Ann Merrill Ewbank Alexander, Jane Merrill Scruggs Watkins, Susan Faye Scruggs Rigby, Sarah Elizabeth Scruggs Stewart and Nancy Lee Scruggs Allain; and three nephews, John Perry Scruggs, Richard Allen Wood Jr. and Don Taylor Wood.
Members of the family will conduct the services.
Wilson & Knight Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
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Tutter's passing was noted on the front page of the Greenwood Commonwealth. She lived to be 105 years old. But to those of us who knew her, it was not how long she lived, but how she lived. Tutter was a good person. She helped support her family when her father died when she was just a young girl. She taught school – she was a strong believer in education – she once even sent a cat to college.
In later years, she had a garden and was one of the founding members of the Curb Market, across from the Christian Church.
And she took care of her mother – Annie Merrill Quarles "Nannaw" lived to be 99 ½ and stayed most of her time with Tutter and John B.
And I would be remiss if I did not – on behalf of all of us – thank Allen and Charlene for taking care of Tutter. They took care of her business, of her financial affairs and of her person – from the day John B. died until this morning when Allen was down at the office typing up the Order of Service you hold in your hands. Thank you.
Tutter leaves a legacy with – and in – all of us.
To us "kids" she and John B. provided us with "our place in the country." We fished, hunted, played army, worked her buttermilk churn and learned country life – things most kids today never know.
She left us the legacy of her "little bitty biscuits" and her buttermilk sherbet – and if anyone here has that recipe, please see Barbara after the service.
Now Tutter has crossed the River Jordan to rest on the other side. She is reunited with John B. – her father that died when she was so young; her mother whom she cared for; her sisters Mary and Lucy; her brothers Raynor and Ben – her family is together again.
We all may not – as Tutter was – be given the opportunity to live long. But we are all given the opportunity to live a good life.
Thank you for coming.
******
Mrs. Jenkins was a close friend of mine the last fifteen years of her life. She was a great lady and a true Christian who loved her Lord Jesus Christ.
I love and miss you, Tutter....Bea.
The Greenwood Commonwealth, June 2, 2007: Graveside services for Cecil Scruggs Jenkins, 105, of Greenwood, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Merrill Cemetery in Carroll County.
Mrs. Jenkins died Thursday, May 31, 2007, at Golden Age Nursing Home.
She was a former teacher and homemaker. A native of the Coila area in Carroll County, she was born Jan. 14, 1902, to the late John Walter and Annie Merrill Quarles Scruggs. She was known affectionately as "Tutter" to family and friends, and was a lifelong member of First Christian Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John B. [Jenkins]; her parents; three brothers, John Merrill Scruggs, Raynor Woods Scruggs and Benjamin Isham Scruggs; and two sisters, Lucy Frances Scruggs Wood and Mary Scruggs Ewbank.
She is survived by five nieces, Ann Merrill Ewbank Alexander, Jane Merrill Scruggs Watkins, Susan Faye Scruggs Rigby, Sarah Elizabeth Scruggs Stewart and Nancy Lee Scruggs Allain; and three nephews, John Perry Scruggs, Richard Allen Wood Jr. and Don Taylor Wood.
Members of the family will conduct the services.
Wilson & Knight Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
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Tutter's passing was noted on the front page of the Greenwood Commonwealth. She lived to be 105 years old. But to those of us who knew her, it was not how long she lived, but how she lived. Tutter was a good person. She helped support her family when her father died when she was just a young girl. She taught school – she was a strong believer in education – she once even sent a cat to college.
In later years, she had a garden and was one of the founding members of the Curb Market, across from the Christian Church.
And she took care of her mother – Annie Merrill Quarles "Nannaw" lived to be 99 ½ and stayed most of her time with Tutter and John B.
And I would be remiss if I did not – on behalf of all of us – thank Allen and Charlene for taking care of Tutter. They took care of her business, of her financial affairs and of her person – from the day John B. died until this morning when Allen was down at the office typing up the Order of Service you hold in your hands. Thank you.
Tutter leaves a legacy with – and in – all of us.
To us "kids" she and John B. provided us with "our place in the country." We fished, hunted, played army, worked her buttermilk churn and learned country life – things most kids today never know.
She left us the legacy of her "little bitty biscuits" and her buttermilk sherbet – and if anyone here has that recipe, please see Barbara after the service.
Now Tutter has crossed the River Jordan to rest on the other side. She is reunited with John B. – her father that died when she was so young; her mother whom she cared for; her sisters Mary and Lucy; her brothers Raynor and Ben – her family is together again.
We all may not – as Tutter was – be given the opportunity to live long. But we are all given the opportunity to live a good life.
Thank you for coming.
******
Mrs. Jenkins was a close friend of mine the last fifteen years of her life. She was a great lady and a true Christian who loved her Lord Jesus Christ.
I love and miss you, Tutter....Bea.
Mrs. Jenkins died Thursday, May 31, 2007, at Golden Age Nursing Home.
She was a former teacher and homemaker. A native of the Coila area in Carroll County, she was born Jan. 14, 1902, to the late John Walter and Annie Merrill Quarles Scruggs. She was known affectionately as "Tutter" to family and friends, and was a lifelong member of First Christian Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John B. [Jenkins]; her parents; three brothers, John Merrill Scruggs, Raynor Woods Scruggs and Benjamin Isham Scruggs; and two sisters, Lucy Frances Scruggs Wood and Mary Scruggs Ewbank.
She is survived by five nieces, Ann Merrill Ewbank Alexander, Jane Merrill Scruggs Watkins, Susan Faye Scruggs Rigby, Sarah Elizabeth Scruggs Stewart and Nancy Lee Scruggs Allain; and three nephews, John Perry Scruggs, Richard Allen Wood Jr. and Don Taylor Wood.
Members of the family will conduct the services.
Wilson & Knight Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
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Tutter's passing was noted on the front page of the Greenwood Commonwealth. She lived to be 105 years old. But to those of us who knew her, it was not how long she lived, but how she lived. Tutter was a good person. She helped support her family when her father died when she was just a young girl. She taught school – she was a strong believer in education – she once even sent a cat to college.
In later years, she had a garden and was one of the founding members of the Curb Market, across from the Christian Church.
And she took care of her mother – Annie Merrill Quarles "Nannaw" lived to be 99 ½ and stayed most of her time with Tutter and John B.
And I would be remiss if I did not – on behalf of all of us – thank Allen and Charlene for taking care of Tutter. They took care of her business, of her financial affairs and of her person – from the day John B. died until this morning when Allen was down at the office typing up the Order of Service you hold in your hands. Thank you.
Tutter leaves a legacy with – and in – all of us.
To us "kids" she and John B. provided us with "our place in the country." We fished, hunted, played army, worked her buttermilk churn and learned country life – things most kids today never know.
She left us the legacy of her "little bitty biscuits" and her buttermilk sherbet – and if anyone here has that recipe, please see Barbara after the service.
Now Tutter has crossed the River Jordan to rest on the other side. She is reunited with John B. – her father that died when she was so young; her mother whom she cared for; her sisters Mary and Lucy; her brothers Raynor and Ben – her family is together again.
We all may not – as Tutter was – be given the opportunity to live long. But we are all given the opportunity to live a good life.
Thank you for coming.
******
Mrs. Jenkins was a close friend of mine the last fifteen years of her life. She was a great lady and a true Christian who loved her Lord Jesus Christ.
I love and miss you, Tutter....Bea.
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