Grace Terry passed into glory at Baylor Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas on Friday, October 24 after a short illness. Born in 1929 in Princeton, Minnesota, she was a long-time resident of McAlester, having lived here for a time in the 1970s before retiring here in 1995. She earned both bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Minnesota. Grace also served as headmaster of the nursing school for St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis from 1959 to 1961 before assuming directorship roles in the Minnesota League for Nursing and then the Minnesota Board of Nursing. In 1958, she married Kenneth Terry of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while the two of them were stationed at Hanau Caserne in Germany. They traveled the world together through their 39 year marriage, living in seven different states as well as both Germany and Japan. Grace was the self-published author of three books on Minnesota history, enjoyed travel and education, loved family and friends, and was a long-time participant in the First Presbyterian Church of McAlester as well as the Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery. In her own words, “she tried.” Burial will be on Monday, October 27 at Fort Gibson National Cemetery.
Grace Terry passed into glory at Baylor Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas on Friday, October 24 after a short illness. Born in 1929 in Princeton, Minnesota, she was a long-time resident of McAlester, having lived here for a time in the 1970s before retiring here in 1995. She earned both bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Minnesota. Grace also served as headmaster of the nursing school for St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis from 1959 to 1961 before assuming directorship roles in the Minnesota League for Nursing and then the Minnesota Board of Nursing. In 1958, she married Kenneth Terry of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while the two of them were stationed at Hanau Caserne in Germany. They traveled the world together through their 39 year marriage, living in seven different states as well as both Germany and Japan. Grace was the self-published author of three books on Minnesota history, enjoyed travel and education, loved family and friends, and was a long-time participant in the First Presbyterian Church of McAlester as well as the Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery. In her own words, “she tried.” Burial will be on Monday, October 27 at Fort Gibson National Cemetery.
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