Obituary:
Eldora (McDermitt)Pennington (1914-2002). Born Eldora Pearl Baker in Texas on March 16, 1914 she moved with her parents at a very early age to a farm on the outskirts of Norman, Oklahoma where she spent her childhood as the eldest and only girl of the five Baker children.
Despite her modest rural upbringing, Eldora acquired a number of sophisticated skills in her youth including studying the piano and becoming an accomplished seamstress. After completing high school she attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman where she met and eventually married her first husband George McDermitt.
During WW II she worked as a secretary for the Attorney General of Oklahoma while her husband George served as an ordinance company commander in the Fifth Army in North Africa, Sicily and Italy where he was twice awarded the Bronze Star. Following the war in 1946 she and her husband traveled to Phoenix to visit her mother and youngest brother. Her husband, an electrical engineer started a 37 year career in 1946 with the Central Arizona Light and Power company (which became APS, the Arizona Public Service Company.) Eldora and George became permanent Phoenix residents where they raised three children.
Eldora was actively involved in her children's activities and served as an adult supporter of the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and later in the Masonic Youth groups DeMolay and Rainbow Girls. After the death of her first husband in 1986, Eldora became actively involved as a member of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in West Phoenix. Here she met her current husband, a recent widower, Edward Pennington who is a WWII veteran and long-time Deacon of their church.
Ed and Eldora were married in 1994. They have been very active in their church and enjoyed numerous trips and cruises including memorable ones to Alaska and Nova Scotia. Much revered as a friend, wife mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Eldora is survived by her husband Edward Pennington, brothers Wayne and Ellis Baker, sons Michael and Daniel McDermitt and daughter Kathleen Carrington, two step daughters Betty Wines and Donna Berger and additionally by 16 grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren.
Viewing and visitation will be held on June 25th, 2002, at the Greer-Wilson Funeral Home (5921 W. Thomas Road in Phoenix 623-245-0994.) The funeral will be held at the Thomas Road Baptist Church (5735 W. Thomas Road) on June 26th and will conclude with a brief graveside service at Greenwood Memorial Lawn in Phoenix (2300 W. Van Buren).
Those wishing to memorialize Eldora as an alternative to flowers are encouraged to direct their generosity in her name to either the American Heart Association 2929 S. 48th Street, Tempe, AZ 85282 or to the Hospice of the Valley 1510 E. Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85014.
Published in The Arizona Republic June 24, 2002.
Eldora (McDermitt)Pennington (1914-2002). Born Eldora Pearl Baker in Texas on March 16, 1914 she moved with her parents at a very early age to a farm on the outskirts of Norman, Oklahoma where she spent her childhood as the eldest and only girl of the five Baker children.
Despite her modest rural upbringing, Eldora acquired a number of sophisticated skills in her youth including studying the piano and becoming an accomplished seamstress. After completing high school she attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman where she met and eventually married her first husband George McDermitt.
During WW II she worked as a secretary for the Attorney General of Oklahoma while her husband George served as an ordinance company commander in the Fifth Army in North Africa, Sicily and Italy where he was twice awarded the Bronze Star. Following the war in 1946 she and her husband traveled to Phoenix to visit her mother and youngest brother. Her husband, an electrical engineer started a 37 year career in 1946 with the Central Arizona Light and Power company (which became APS, the Arizona Public Service Company.) Eldora and George became permanent Phoenix residents where they raised three children.
Eldora was actively involved in her children's activities and served as an adult supporter of the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and later in the Masonic Youth groups DeMolay and Rainbow Girls. After the death of her first husband in 1986, Eldora became actively involved as a member of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in West Phoenix. Here she met her current husband, a recent widower, Edward Pennington who is a WWII veteran and long-time Deacon of their church.
Ed and Eldora were married in 1994. They have been very active in their church and enjoyed numerous trips and cruises including memorable ones to Alaska and Nova Scotia. Much revered as a friend, wife mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Eldora is survived by her husband Edward Pennington, brothers Wayne and Ellis Baker, sons Michael and Daniel McDermitt and daughter Kathleen Carrington, two step daughters Betty Wines and Donna Berger and additionally by 16 grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren.
Viewing and visitation will be held on June 25th, 2002, at the Greer-Wilson Funeral Home (5921 W. Thomas Road in Phoenix 623-245-0994.) The funeral will be held at the Thomas Road Baptist Church (5735 W. Thomas Road) on June 26th and will conclude with a brief graveside service at Greenwood Memorial Lawn in Phoenix (2300 W. Van Buren).
Those wishing to memorialize Eldora as an alternative to flowers are encouraged to direct their generosity in her name to either the American Heart Association 2929 S. 48th Street, Tempe, AZ 85282 or to the Hospice of the Valley 1510 E. Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85014.
Published in The Arizona Republic June 24, 2002.
Obituary:
Eldora (McDermitt)Pennington (1914-2002). Born Eldora Pearl Baker in Texas on March 16, 1914 she moved with her parents at a very early age to a farm on the outskirts of Norman, Oklahoma where she spent her childhood as the eldest and only girl of the five Baker children.
Despite her modest rural upbringing, Eldora acquired a number of sophisticated skills in her youth including studying the piano and becoming an accomplished seamstress. After completing high school she attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman where she met and eventually married her first husband George McDermitt.
During WW II she worked as a secretary for the Attorney General of Oklahoma while her husband George served as an ordinance company commander in the Fifth Army in North Africa, Sicily and Italy where he was twice awarded the Bronze Star. Following the war in 1946 she and her husband traveled to Phoenix to visit her mother and youngest brother. Her husband, an electrical engineer started a 37 year career in 1946 with the Central Arizona Light and Power company (which became APS, the Arizona Public Service Company.) Eldora and George became permanent Phoenix residents where they raised three children.
Eldora was actively involved in her children's activities and served as an adult supporter of the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and later in the Masonic Youth groups DeMolay and Rainbow Girls. After the death of her first husband in 1986, Eldora became actively involved as a member of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in West Phoenix. Here she met her current husband, a recent widower, Edward Pennington who is a WWII veteran and long-time Deacon of their church.
Ed and Eldora were married in 1994. They have been very active in their church and enjoyed numerous trips and cruises including memorable ones to Alaska and Nova Scotia. Much revered as a friend, wife mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Eldora is survived by her husband Edward Pennington, brothers Wayne and Ellis Baker, sons Michael and Daniel McDermitt and daughter Kathleen Carrington, two step daughters Betty Wines and Donna Berger and additionally by 16 grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren.
Viewing and visitation will be held on June 25th, 2002, at the Greer-Wilson Funeral Home (5921 W. Thomas Road in Phoenix 623-245-0994.) The funeral will be held at the Thomas Road Baptist Church (5735 W. Thomas Road) on June 26th and will conclude with a brief graveside service at Greenwood Memorial Lawn in Phoenix (2300 W. Van Buren).
Those wishing to memorialize Eldora as an alternative to flowers are encouraged to direct their generosity in her name to either the American Heart Association 2929 S. 48th Street, Tempe, AZ 85282 or to the Hospice of the Valley 1510 E. Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85014.
Published in The Arizona Republic June 24, 2002.
Eldora (McDermitt)Pennington (1914-2002). Born Eldora Pearl Baker in Texas on March 16, 1914 she moved with her parents at a very early age to a farm on the outskirts of Norman, Oklahoma where she spent her childhood as the eldest and only girl of the five Baker children.
Despite her modest rural upbringing, Eldora acquired a number of sophisticated skills in her youth including studying the piano and becoming an accomplished seamstress. After completing high school she attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman where she met and eventually married her first husband George McDermitt.
During WW II she worked as a secretary for the Attorney General of Oklahoma while her husband George served as an ordinance company commander in the Fifth Army in North Africa, Sicily and Italy where he was twice awarded the Bronze Star. Following the war in 1946 she and her husband traveled to Phoenix to visit her mother and youngest brother. Her husband, an electrical engineer started a 37 year career in 1946 with the Central Arizona Light and Power company (which became APS, the Arizona Public Service Company.) Eldora and George became permanent Phoenix residents where they raised three children.
Eldora was actively involved in her children's activities and served as an adult supporter of the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and later in the Masonic Youth groups DeMolay and Rainbow Girls. After the death of her first husband in 1986, Eldora became actively involved as a member of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in West Phoenix. Here she met her current husband, a recent widower, Edward Pennington who is a WWII veteran and long-time Deacon of their church.
Ed and Eldora were married in 1994. They have been very active in their church and enjoyed numerous trips and cruises including memorable ones to Alaska and Nova Scotia. Much revered as a friend, wife mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Eldora is survived by her husband Edward Pennington, brothers Wayne and Ellis Baker, sons Michael and Daniel McDermitt and daughter Kathleen Carrington, two step daughters Betty Wines and Donna Berger and additionally by 16 grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren.
Viewing and visitation will be held on June 25th, 2002, at the Greer-Wilson Funeral Home (5921 W. Thomas Road in Phoenix 623-245-0994.) The funeral will be held at the Thomas Road Baptist Church (5735 W. Thomas Road) on June 26th and will conclude with a brief graveside service at Greenwood Memorial Lawn in Phoenix (2300 W. Van Buren).
Those wishing to memorialize Eldora as an alternative to flowers are encouraged to direct their generosity in her name to either the American Heart Association 2929 S. 48th Street, Tempe, AZ 85282 or to the Hospice of the Valley 1510 E. Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85014.
Published in The Arizona Republic June 24, 2002.
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