Knoxville News Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee), 25 July 2018
Catherine Booker Nixon, 102, formerly of Knoxville, died at Brookdale of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on July 4, 2018.
Born in 1915 to Mary Hicks Booker and William Alfred Booker, Jr., she and her brother, the late Robert Alfred Booker, grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, where she attended Union University before graduating from the University of Tennessee/Knoxville in 1936. Her sorority was Chi Omega.
She worked for 2 years at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Knoxville before marrying William Nixon, III, of Sunbury, North Carolina, in 1938; he was the Chief Materials Engineer at TVA before his retirement in 1972. Their children are William Nixon, IV (wife Cynthia) of Bloomfield, MI, and Cynthia Nixon Mastro (husband Joseph) of Elizabeth City, NC. Grandchildren are William Stewart Nixon (wife Stephanie) of Carbondale, CO; Walton Nixon Creekmore of Seattle, WA; and Elizabeth Lee Nixon (husband Mike Kaminski) of Berkley, MI. Eleanor Carter Nixon of Carbondale, CO, is a great-grandchild.
In Knoxville, Catherine was a PTA officer, Brownie Scout/Girl Scout troop leader, adviser for Chi Omega's Pi Chapter at UT for 10 years, Chi Omega Alumnae Association Treasurer, President of the Episcopal Church Women and Chair of the Altar Guild at St. John's Episcopal Church (now St. John's Cathedral), and a teacher of homebound students in Knox County.
Catherine and her husband left Knoxville in 1972 to build a home on ancestral Nixon land in Hertford, North Carolina. She was a member and officer of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Perquimans County Restoration Association, and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
Catherine was proud of her Meriwether heritage: a direct descendant of Nicholas Meriwether I of Surry County and Jamestown, Virginia, who emigrated from England circa 1650, and a direct descendant of Revolutionary War officer, Lt. David Meriwether of Virginia, who was later presented an inscribed gold watch by his friend, Thomas Jefferson. The watch is now at UT's McClung Museum.
She also enjoyed playing bridge, hosting guests at a beach house, attending Meriwether Society reunions, and traveling widely in the US and abroad with her husband (died in 1992) and others.
A graveside service was conducted at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Hertford by The Rev. Robert Beauchamp on July 9, 2018.
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TMSI [20650] M1227a 8G-Granddaughter
Catherine Booker Nixon, 102, formerly of Knoxville, died at Brookdale of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on July 4, 2018.
Born in 1915 to Mary Hicks Booker and William Alfred Booker, Jr., she and her brother, the late Robert Alfred Booker, grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, where she attended Union University before graduating from the University of Tennessee/Knoxville in 1936. Her sorority was Chi Omega.
She worked for 2 years at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Knoxville before marrying William Nixon, III, of Sunbury, North Carolina, in 1938; he was the Chief Materials Engineer at TVA before his retirement in 1972. Their children are William Nixon, IV (wife Cynthia) of Bloomfield, MI, and Cynthia Nixon Mastro (husband Joseph) of Elizabeth City, NC. Grandchildren are William Stewart Nixon (wife Stephanie) of Carbondale, CO; Walton Nixon Creekmore of Seattle, WA; and Elizabeth Lee Nixon (husband Mike Kaminski) of Berkley, MI. Eleanor Carter Nixon of Carbondale, CO, is a great-grandchild.
In Knoxville, Catherine was a PTA officer, Brownie Scout/Girl Scout troop leader, adviser for Chi Omega's Pi Chapter at UT for 10 years, Chi Omega Alumnae Association Treasurer, President of the Episcopal Church Women and Chair of the Altar Guild at St. John's Episcopal Church (now St. John's Cathedral), and a teacher of homebound students in Knox County.
Catherine and her husband left Knoxville in 1972 to build a home on ancestral Nixon land in Hertford, North Carolina. She was a member and officer of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Perquimans County Restoration Association, and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
Catherine was proud of her Meriwether heritage: a direct descendant of Nicholas Meriwether I of Surry County and Jamestown, Virginia, who emigrated from England circa 1650, and a direct descendant of Revolutionary War officer, Lt. David Meriwether of Virginia, who was later presented an inscribed gold watch by his friend, Thomas Jefferson. The watch is now at UT's McClung Museum.
She also enjoyed playing bridge, hosting guests at a beach house, attending Meriwether Society reunions, and traveling widely in the US and abroad with her husband (died in 1992) and others.
A graveside service was conducted at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Hertford by The Rev. Robert Beauchamp on July 9, 2018.
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TMSI [20650] M1227a 8G-Granddaughter
Knoxville News Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee), 25 July 2018
Catherine Booker Nixon, 102, formerly of Knoxville, died at Brookdale of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on July 4, 2018.
Born in 1915 to Mary Hicks Booker and William Alfred Booker, Jr., she and her brother, the late Robert Alfred Booker, grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, where she attended Union University before graduating from the University of Tennessee/Knoxville in 1936. Her sorority was Chi Omega.
She worked for 2 years at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Knoxville before marrying William Nixon, III, of Sunbury, North Carolina, in 1938; he was the Chief Materials Engineer at TVA before his retirement in 1972. Their children are William Nixon, IV (wife Cynthia) of Bloomfield, MI, and Cynthia Nixon Mastro (husband Joseph) of Elizabeth City, NC. Grandchildren are William Stewart Nixon (wife Stephanie) of Carbondale, CO; Walton Nixon Creekmore of Seattle, WA; and Elizabeth Lee Nixon (husband Mike Kaminski) of Berkley, MI. Eleanor Carter Nixon of Carbondale, CO, is a great-grandchild.
In Knoxville, Catherine was a PTA officer, Brownie Scout/Girl Scout troop leader, adviser for Chi Omega's Pi Chapter at UT for 10 years, Chi Omega Alumnae Association Treasurer, President of the Episcopal Church Women and Chair of the Altar Guild at St. John's Episcopal Church (now St. John's Cathedral), and a teacher of homebound students in Knox County.
Catherine and her husband left Knoxville in 1972 to build a home on ancestral Nixon land in Hertford, North Carolina. She was a member and officer of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Perquimans County Restoration Association, and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
Catherine was proud of her Meriwether heritage: a direct descendant of Nicholas Meriwether I of Surry County and Jamestown, Virginia, who emigrated from England circa 1650, and a direct descendant of Revolutionary War officer, Lt. David Meriwether of Virginia, who was later presented an inscribed gold watch by his friend, Thomas Jefferson. The watch is now at UT's McClung Museum.
She also enjoyed playing bridge, hosting guests at a beach house, attending Meriwether Society reunions, and traveling widely in the US and abroad with her husband (died in 1992) and others.
A graveside service was conducted at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Hertford by The Rev. Robert Beauchamp on July 9, 2018.
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TMSI [20650] M1227a 8G-Granddaughter
Catherine Booker Nixon, 102, formerly of Knoxville, died at Brookdale of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on July 4, 2018.
Born in 1915 to Mary Hicks Booker and William Alfred Booker, Jr., she and her brother, the late Robert Alfred Booker, grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, where she attended Union University before graduating from the University of Tennessee/Knoxville in 1936. Her sorority was Chi Omega.
She worked for 2 years at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Knoxville before marrying William Nixon, III, of Sunbury, North Carolina, in 1938; he was the Chief Materials Engineer at TVA before his retirement in 1972. Their children are William Nixon, IV (wife Cynthia) of Bloomfield, MI, and Cynthia Nixon Mastro (husband Joseph) of Elizabeth City, NC. Grandchildren are William Stewart Nixon (wife Stephanie) of Carbondale, CO; Walton Nixon Creekmore of Seattle, WA; and Elizabeth Lee Nixon (husband Mike Kaminski) of Berkley, MI. Eleanor Carter Nixon of Carbondale, CO, is a great-grandchild.
In Knoxville, Catherine was a PTA officer, Brownie Scout/Girl Scout troop leader, adviser for Chi Omega's Pi Chapter at UT for 10 years, Chi Omega Alumnae Association Treasurer, President of the Episcopal Church Women and Chair of the Altar Guild at St. John's Episcopal Church (now St. John's Cathedral), and a teacher of homebound students in Knox County.
Catherine and her husband left Knoxville in 1972 to build a home on ancestral Nixon land in Hertford, North Carolina. She was a member and officer of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Perquimans County Restoration Association, and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
Catherine was proud of her Meriwether heritage: a direct descendant of Nicholas Meriwether I of Surry County and Jamestown, Virginia, who emigrated from England circa 1650, and a direct descendant of Revolutionary War officer, Lt. David Meriwether of Virginia, who was later presented an inscribed gold watch by his friend, Thomas Jefferson. The watch is now at UT's McClung Museum.
She also enjoyed playing bridge, hosting guests at a beach house, attending Meriwether Society reunions, and traveling widely in the US and abroad with her husband (died in 1992) and others.
A graveside service was conducted at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Hertford by The Rev. Robert Beauchamp on July 9, 2018.
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TMSI [20650] M1227a 8G-Granddaughter
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