Ida Mae was born the youngest child of Archie Perry and Ruth Gill Winn on September 10, 1932 near the town of Patterson in Pierce County, Georgia. She grew up as a farmer's daughter during The Great Depression and WW II and married at a young age.
Clyde Walker , having known her her entire life, asked Ida to marry him in August 1948.
They gained her father's permission and began what would become a 62 year journey together as Husband and Wife. Moving first to Ft. Myers, Florida where Clyde worked in a Restaurant for his Uncle Tollie Davis, they soon welcomed their first two children. Three years later it was off to Jacksonville where the remainder of their four children were to be born. Living in Panama Park, Clyde became a brickmason and soon built Ida Mae a home in the woods in the Eastport area near Oceanway on Jacksonville's Northside. Dad moved us to the new house on a dead end dirt road in the fall of 1957 - before interior doors, or even a bathroom had been installed! Being a Georgia gal, Ida understood out houses – and did not like them, but it took being caught in the landing lights of an airplane making its approach to the old Imeson airport while he was showering outdoors to prompt dad into a quick completion of the bathroom. It was home for more than fifty years.
Ida Mae would prefer to have been known as a Wife, Mother and homemaker but was proud of her time working in retail for the JC Penny company, first at the Gateway store then at the store in the Garden City area. She retired in 2000 after 13 years.
She enjoyed growing home gardens, canning the vegetables and fruits and making superb grape jelly. To our great delight , she also enjoyed cooking. The family enjoyed eating it all!
She made sure her young children attended church. Over the years she was a member at Eastport Baptist, New Berlin Baptist ( now Northview) and was a member at Duval Station Baptist Church at the time of her death. Her many friends will miss her loving presence and sweet voice but rejoice that she is now with the Lord and suffering no more.
Ida Mae is survived by her Husband Clyde and four Children, Billy (Michele), Steve ( Barbra), Susan Higginbotham ( Marty) and Richard ( Mary). She was predeceased by six of her siblings and has one surviving sister, Miss Mildred Winn of Blackshear, Ga. , eight grandchildren, 16 great grand children, and many nieces and nephews.
A visitation and viewing was held at the Cory Kerlin funeral home on Rowe Ave 6-8pm on September 21 and Funeral services were held the next day at 3pm in the chapel of Dial-Pearson Funeral home, Blackshear, Georgia. Interment was at the New Home Primitive Baptist Church cemetery near Offerman, Georgia. Services were conducted by the Reverend Alvin Johnson, a nephew of Ida Mae. Her favorite songs, Sweet Beulah Land and Amazing Grace were sung by Jimmy Flanagan, her pastor from Duval Station.
Clyde Walker , having known her her entire life, asked Ida to marry him in August 1948.
They gained her father's permission and began what would become a 62 year journey together as Husband and Wife. Moving first to Ft. Myers, Florida where Clyde worked in a Restaurant for his Uncle Tollie Davis, they soon welcomed their first two children. Three years later it was off to Jacksonville where the remainder of their four children were to be born. Living in Panama Park, Clyde became a brickmason and soon built Ida Mae a home in the woods in the Eastport area near Oceanway on Jacksonville's Northside. Dad moved us to the new house on a dead end dirt road in the fall of 1957 - before interior doors, or even a bathroom had been installed! Being a Georgia gal, Ida understood out houses – and did not like them, but it took being caught in the landing lights of an airplane making its approach to the old Imeson airport while he was showering outdoors to prompt dad into a quick completion of the bathroom. It was home for more than fifty years.
Ida Mae would prefer to have been known as a Wife, Mother and homemaker but was proud of her time working in retail for the JC Penny company, first at the Gateway store then at the store in the Garden City area. She retired in 2000 after 13 years.
She enjoyed growing home gardens, canning the vegetables and fruits and making superb grape jelly. To our great delight , she also enjoyed cooking. The family enjoyed eating it all!
She made sure her young children attended church. Over the years she was a member at Eastport Baptist, New Berlin Baptist ( now Northview) and was a member at Duval Station Baptist Church at the time of her death. Her many friends will miss her loving presence and sweet voice but rejoice that she is now with the Lord and suffering no more.
Ida Mae is survived by her Husband Clyde and four Children, Billy (Michele), Steve ( Barbra), Susan Higginbotham ( Marty) and Richard ( Mary). She was predeceased by six of her siblings and has one surviving sister, Miss Mildred Winn of Blackshear, Ga. , eight grandchildren, 16 great grand children, and many nieces and nephews.
A visitation and viewing was held at the Cory Kerlin funeral home on Rowe Ave 6-8pm on September 21 and Funeral services were held the next day at 3pm in the chapel of Dial-Pearson Funeral home, Blackshear, Georgia. Interment was at the New Home Primitive Baptist Church cemetery near Offerman, Georgia. Services were conducted by the Reverend Alvin Johnson, a nephew of Ida Mae. Her favorite songs, Sweet Beulah Land and Amazing Grace were sung by Jimmy Flanagan, her pastor from Duval Station.
Ida Mae was born the youngest child of Archie Perry and Ruth Gill Winn on September 10, 1932 near the town of Patterson in Pierce County, Georgia. She grew up as a farmer's daughter during The Great Depression and WW II and married at a young age.
Clyde Walker , having known her her entire life, asked Ida to marry him in August 1948.
They gained her father's permission and began what would become a 62 year journey together as Husband and Wife. Moving first to Ft. Myers, Florida where Clyde worked in a Restaurant for his Uncle Tollie Davis, they soon welcomed their first two children. Three years later it was off to Jacksonville where the remainder of their four children were to be born. Living in Panama Park, Clyde became a brickmason and soon built Ida Mae a home in the woods in the Eastport area near Oceanway on Jacksonville's Northside. Dad moved us to the new house on a dead end dirt road in the fall of 1957 - before interior doors, or even a bathroom had been installed! Being a Georgia gal, Ida understood out houses – and did not like them, but it took being caught in the landing lights of an airplane making its approach to the old Imeson airport while he was showering outdoors to prompt dad into a quick completion of the bathroom. It was home for more than fifty years.
Ida Mae would prefer to have been known as a Wife, Mother and homemaker but was proud of her time working in retail for the JC Penny company, first at the Gateway store then at the store in the Garden City area. She retired in 2000 after 13 years.
She enjoyed growing home gardens, canning the vegetables and fruits and making superb grape jelly. To our great delight , she also enjoyed cooking. The family enjoyed eating it all!
She made sure her young children attended church. Over the years she was a member at Eastport Baptist, New Berlin Baptist ( now Northview) and was a member at Duval Station Baptist Church at the time of her death. Her many friends will miss her loving presence and sweet voice but rejoice that she is now with the Lord and suffering no more.
Ida Mae is survived by her Husband Clyde and four Children, Billy (Michele), Steve ( Barbra), Susan Higginbotham ( Marty) and Richard ( Mary). She was predeceased by six of her siblings and has one surviving sister, Miss Mildred Winn of Blackshear, Ga. , eight grandchildren, 16 great grand children, and many nieces and nephews.
A visitation and viewing was held at the Cory Kerlin funeral home on Rowe Ave 6-8pm on September 21 and Funeral services were held the next day at 3pm in the chapel of Dial-Pearson Funeral home, Blackshear, Georgia. Interment was at the New Home Primitive Baptist Church cemetery near Offerman, Georgia. Services were conducted by the Reverend Alvin Johnson, a nephew of Ida Mae. Her favorite songs, Sweet Beulah Land and Amazing Grace were sung by Jimmy Flanagan, her pastor from Duval Station.
Clyde Walker , having known her her entire life, asked Ida to marry him in August 1948.
They gained her father's permission and began what would become a 62 year journey together as Husband and Wife. Moving first to Ft. Myers, Florida where Clyde worked in a Restaurant for his Uncle Tollie Davis, they soon welcomed their first two children. Three years later it was off to Jacksonville where the remainder of their four children were to be born. Living in Panama Park, Clyde became a brickmason and soon built Ida Mae a home in the woods in the Eastport area near Oceanway on Jacksonville's Northside. Dad moved us to the new house on a dead end dirt road in the fall of 1957 - before interior doors, or even a bathroom had been installed! Being a Georgia gal, Ida understood out houses – and did not like them, but it took being caught in the landing lights of an airplane making its approach to the old Imeson airport while he was showering outdoors to prompt dad into a quick completion of the bathroom. It was home for more than fifty years.
Ida Mae would prefer to have been known as a Wife, Mother and homemaker but was proud of her time working in retail for the JC Penny company, first at the Gateway store then at the store in the Garden City area. She retired in 2000 after 13 years.
She enjoyed growing home gardens, canning the vegetables and fruits and making superb grape jelly. To our great delight , she also enjoyed cooking. The family enjoyed eating it all!
She made sure her young children attended church. Over the years she was a member at Eastport Baptist, New Berlin Baptist ( now Northview) and was a member at Duval Station Baptist Church at the time of her death. Her many friends will miss her loving presence and sweet voice but rejoice that she is now with the Lord and suffering no more.
Ida Mae is survived by her Husband Clyde and four Children, Billy (Michele), Steve ( Barbra), Susan Higginbotham ( Marty) and Richard ( Mary). She was predeceased by six of her siblings and has one surviving sister, Miss Mildred Winn of Blackshear, Ga. , eight grandchildren, 16 great grand children, and many nieces and nephews.
A visitation and viewing was held at the Cory Kerlin funeral home on Rowe Ave 6-8pm on September 21 and Funeral services were held the next day at 3pm in the chapel of Dial-Pearson Funeral home, Blackshear, Georgia. Interment was at the New Home Primitive Baptist Church cemetery near Offerman, Georgia. Services were conducted by the Reverend Alvin Johnson, a nephew of Ida Mae. Her favorite songs, Sweet Beulah Land and Amazing Grace were sung by Jimmy Flanagan, her pastor from Duval Station.
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