Wife of Charles Ellsworth Kern (divorced). Wife of Walter McCoy Haddock (divorced).
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Daughter of Mary Viola "Vernie" Mills. Grand daughter of James Buchanan Mills and Katherine Rebecca "Kate" Henry.
Elizabeth "Libby" Haddock, 96, died Friday, May 18, at Jackson Hospital in Marianna, Florida following a heart attack. She had been a resident of the Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Born Elizabeth Ray Mills in southeastern Virginia in 1911, she was traumatized at age 5 when thrown from an open car riding in Norfolk with her mother, Mary Viola Mills. While she landed safely in another woman's lap, her mother and other passengers were killed. Raised by her grandmother, Kate Henry Mills, and aunts in Winchester, Virginia, she attended Handley High School. She left school at age 17 to marry Charles Ellsworth Kern, a drummer with Virginia Serenaders, a local Winchester band. The couple moved to Washington DC, where Mr. Kern worked at the National Zoo as the head keeper of the Small Mammal House. Elizabeth's uncle, John Mills, was a senior policeman at the park.
To help raise four children, she worked at the War Department, Walter Reed Hospital and the Bureau of Standards. The couple divorced in 1954. In the same year, Elizabeth married Walter Haddock, an Air Force mechanic and survivor of the Bataan Death March. He experienced post-traumatic stress disorder and eventually they divorced.
Mrs. Haddock worked for 20 years at St. Elizabeth's Hospital as a secretary and assistant to noted psychologists. Upon retirement in 1971, she flew to Tampa, Florida on her first and only airplane flight.
In 2000 she entered the Alterra-Sterling House in Panama City, then transferred to Marianna last year.
She is well remembered for her witty retorts. Once asked why she preferred the colored tablets of Tums, she said: "Sometimes I like to live a little." She recalled the silent "Phantom of the Opera" in detail and said that people in the Winchester theater had fainted when the phantom took off his mask. The theater kept ambulances ready outside.
She is survived by her daughter, Susan French; her son, Gary Kern; her daughter and caregiver in Marianna, Linda Mount; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Her first son, Charles E. Kern, Jr., a prominent DC area businessman and "super" for the Washington opera, died at age 75 in 2005.
Interment will be in the Mills Family Plot, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia.
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Daughter of Mary Viola "Vernie" Mills. Grand daughter of James Buchanan Mills and Katherine Rebecca "Kate" Henry.
Elizabeth "Libby" Haddock, 96, died Friday, May 18, at Jackson Hospital in Marianna, Florida following a heart attack. She had been a resident of the Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Born Elizabeth Ray Mills in southeastern Virginia in 1911, she was traumatized at age 5 when thrown from an open car riding in Norfolk with her mother, Mary Viola Mills. While she landed safely in another woman's lap, her mother and other passengers were killed. Raised by her grandmother, Kate Henry Mills, and aunts in Winchester, Virginia, she attended Handley High School. She left school at age 17 to marry Charles Ellsworth Kern, a drummer with Virginia Serenaders, a local Winchester band. The couple moved to Washington DC, where Mr. Kern worked at the National Zoo as the head keeper of the Small Mammal House. Elizabeth's uncle, John Mills, was a senior policeman at the park.
To help raise four children, she worked at the War Department, Walter Reed Hospital and the Bureau of Standards. The couple divorced in 1954. In the same year, Elizabeth married Walter Haddock, an Air Force mechanic and survivor of the Bataan Death March. He experienced post-traumatic stress disorder and eventually they divorced.
Mrs. Haddock worked for 20 years at St. Elizabeth's Hospital as a secretary and assistant to noted psychologists. Upon retirement in 1971, she flew to Tampa, Florida on her first and only airplane flight.
In 2000 she entered the Alterra-Sterling House in Panama City, then transferred to Marianna last year.
She is well remembered for her witty retorts. Once asked why she preferred the colored tablets of Tums, she said: "Sometimes I like to live a little." She recalled the silent "Phantom of the Opera" in detail and said that people in the Winchester theater had fainted when the phantom took off his mask. The theater kept ambulances ready outside.
She is survived by her daughter, Susan French; her son, Gary Kern; her daughter and caregiver in Marianna, Linda Mount; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Her first son, Charles E. Kern, Jr., a prominent DC area businessman and "super" for the Washington opera, died at age 75 in 2005.
Interment will be in the Mills Family Plot, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia.
Wife of Charles Ellsworth Kern (divorced). Wife of Walter McCoy Haddock (divorced).
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Daughter of Mary Viola "Vernie" Mills. Grand daughter of James Buchanan Mills and Katherine Rebecca "Kate" Henry.
Elizabeth "Libby" Haddock, 96, died Friday, May 18, at Jackson Hospital in Marianna, Florida following a heart attack. She had been a resident of the Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Born Elizabeth Ray Mills in southeastern Virginia in 1911, she was traumatized at age 5 when thrown from an open car riding in Norfolk with her mother, Mary Viola Mills. While she landed safely in another woman's lap, her mother and other passengers were killed. Raised by her grandmother, Kate Henry Mills, and aunts in Winchester, Virginia, she attended Handley High School. She left school at age 17 to marry Charles Ellsworth Kern, a drummer with Virginia Serenaders, a local Winchester band. The couple moved to Washington DC, where Mr. Kern worked at the National Zoo as the head keeper of the Small Mammal House. Elizabeth's uncle, John Mills, was a senior policeman at the park.
To help raise four children, she worked at the War Department, Walter Reed Hospital and the Bureau of Standards. The couple divorced in 1954. In the same year, Elizabeth married Walter Haddock, an Air Force mechanic and survivor of the Bataan Death March. He experienced post-traumatic stress disorder and eventually they divorced.
Mrs. Haddock worked for 20 years at St. Elizabeth's Hospital as a secretary and assistant to noted psychologists. Upon retirement in 1971, she flew to Tampa, Florida on her first and only airplane flight.
In 2000 she entered the Alterra-Sterling House in Panama City, then transferred to Marianna last year.
She is well remembered for her witty retorts. Once asked why she preferred the colored tablets of Tums, she said: "Sometimes I like to live a little." She recalled the silent "Phantom of the Opera" in detail and said that people in the Winchester theater had fainted when the phantom took off his mask. The theater kept ambulances ready outside.
She is survived by her daughter, Susan French; her son, Gary Kern; her daughter and caregiver in Marianna, Linda Mount; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Her first son, Charles E. Kern, Jr., a prominent DC area businessman and "super" for the Washington opera, died at age 75 in 2005.
Interment will be in the Mills Family Plot, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia.
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Daughter of Mary Viola "Vernie" Mills. Grand daughter of James Buchanan Mills and Katherine Rebecca "Kate" Henry.
Elizabeth "Libby" Haddock, 96, died Friday, May 18, at Jackson Hospital in Marianna, Florida following a heart attack. She had been a resident of the Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Born Elizabeth Ray Mills in southeastern Virginia in 1911, she was traumatized at age 5 when thrown from an open car riding in Norfolk with her mother, Mary Viola Mills. While she landed safely in another woman's lap, her mother and other passengers were killed. Raised by her grandmother, Kate Henry Mills, and aunts in Winchester, Virginia, she attended Handley High School. She left school at age 17 to marry Charles Ellsworth Kern, a drummer with Virginia Serenaders, a local Winchester band. The couple moved to Washington DC, where Mr. Kern worked at the National Zoo as the head keeper of the Small Mammal House. Elizabeth's uncle, John Mills, was a senior policeman at the park.
To help raise four children, she worked at the War Department, Walter Reed Hospital and the Bureau of Standards. The couple divorced in 1954. In the same year, Elizabeth married Walter Haddock, an Air Force mechanic and survivor of the Bataan Death March. He experienced post-traumatic stress disorder and eventually they divorced.
Mrs. Haddock worked for 20 years at St. Elizabeth's Hospital as a secretary and assistant to noted psychologists. Upon retirement in 1971, she flew to Tampa, Florida on her first and only airplane flight.
In 2000 she entered the Alterra-Sterling House in Panama City, then transferred to Marianna last year.
She is well remembered for her witty retorts. Once asked why she preferred the colored tablets of Tums, she said: "Sometimes I like to live a little." She recalled the silent "Phantom of the Opera" in detail and said that people in the Winchester theater had fainted when the phantom took off his mask. The theater kept ambulances ready outside.
She is survived by her daughter, Susan French; her son, Gary Kern; her daughter and caregiver in Marianna, Linda Mount; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Her first son, Charles E. Kern, Jr., a prominent DC area businessman and "super" for the Washington opera, died at age 75 in 2005.
Interment will be in the Mills Family Plot, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia.
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