Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
about Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Name: Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Death Date: 1952
County of Death: Dade
State of Death: Florida
Other Death Place Information: Miami
Race: White
Gender: Female
Obtiturary Miami News:
Blindness No Bar
"OLE MISS" DIES: ADVISOR TO MANY
A blind, bedridden pioneer woman who was a friend, confidant, to hundreds of Miamians from children to public officials, died Thursday. She was Mrs. Margaret Mizzel McCrimmon, 68.
Crippled by arthritis when she was in her 40's, Ole Miss, as she was familiarly known, had spent the last 10 years in her bedroom of her home at 1552 SW 1st Street.
Although she was unable to move any of her crippled limbs, Mrs. McCrimmon's cheerfulness and vitality amazed friends. With a telephone propped under her chin,she would carry on long discussions of civic and world affairs with officials.
She used the telephone to organize and carry on a Bundles for Britian Campaign in the early days of World War II. She would set quotas for friends in whom she assigned tasks and prodded them verbally to see that the work was done.
Her service won her a British Kings Medal for Service, presented on behalf of the late George VI, by the British Consult in Miami.
Few, exept intimates knew, Ole Miss was blind most of her bedridden years. The fact was never known to her eight grandchildren and the children of friends who called to show her a new dress, a ribbon, flowers, and a toy.
Mrs. McCrimmon was born in Kingsland, Georgia. She moved to Miami in 1905, to teach school after graduating from Georgia State College for Women. She taught at the old Central School, on the site of the present day Miami Post Office, and was principal of the old Second Street School.
She was married in 1910 to Charles Thomas McCrimmon, a Georgian who came to Miami in 1896. Her husband built the first hard surface road in Miami, operated sucessfully as a banker, fruit canner, and lumberman before his death in 1917.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a Charter Member of the Shenandoah Presbyterian Church, where funeral services will be held at 3PM today. The Reverand Daniel J. Iverson who officiated at the marriage of each of the McCrimmon four children, will conduct the service.
Survivors include two sons, C.T., and Steve of Miami, two daughters, Mrs. Marvin Carr, Atlantic Beach, and Mrs. R.C. Gardner Jr. of Miami, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Peeples, Miami, and Mrs. Vertha Harrel, of Fernandina.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a early member of the Miami Woman's Club, Fort Dallas chapter of Order and Eastern Star, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the first president of the Miami Senior High School PTA.
Burial will be in the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery with Combs Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be Jack Crouch, Hammond Connolly, John D. Eckhoff, James Ellenberg, William Roetgen, and Arthur Voltz.
about Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Name: Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Death Date: 1952
County of Death: Dade
State of Death: Florida
Other Death Place Information: Miami
Race: White
Gender: Female
Obtiturary Miami News:
Blindness No Bar
"OLE MISS" DIES: ADVISOR TO MANY
A blind, bedridden pioneer woman who was a friend, confidant, to hundreds of Miamians from children to public officials, died Thursday. She was Mrs. Margaret Mizzel McCrimmon, 68.
Crippled by arthritis when she was in her 40's, Ole Miss, as she was familiarly known, had spent the last 10 years in her bedroom of her home at 1552 SW 1st Street.
Although she was unable to move any of her crippled limbs, Mrs. McCrimmon's cheerfulness and vitality amazed friends. With a telephone propped under her chin,she would carry on long discussions of civic and world affairs with officials.
She used the telephone to organize and carry on a Bundles for Britian Campaign in the early days of World War II. She would set quotas for friends in whom she assigned tasks and prodded them verbally to see that the work was done.
Her service won her a British Kings Medal for Service, presented on behalf of the late George VI, by the British Consult in Miami.
Few, exept intimates knew, Ole Miss was blind most of her bedridden years. The fact was never known to her eight grandchildren and the children of friends who called to show her a new dress, a ribbon, flowers, and a toy.
Mrs. McCrimmon was born in Kingsland, Georgia. She moved to Miami in 1905, to teach school after graduating from Georgia State College for Women. She taught at the old Central School, on the site of the present day Miami Post Office, and was principal of the old Second Street School.
She was married in 1910 to Charles Thomas McCrimmon, a Georgian who came to Miami in 1896. Her husband built the first hard surface road in Miami, operated sucessfully as a banker, fruit canner, and lumberman before his death in 1917.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a Charter Member of the Shenandoah Presbyterian Church, where funeral services will be held at 3PM today. The Reverand Daniel J. Iverson who officiated at the marriage of each of the McCrimmon four children, will conduct the service.
Survivors include two sons, C.T., and Steve of Miami, two daughters, Mrs. Marvin Carr, Atlantic Beach, and Mrs. R.C. Gardner Jr. of Miami, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Peeples, Miami, and Mrs. Vertha Harrel, of Fernandina.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a early member of the Miami Woman's Club, Fort Dallas chapter of Order and Eastern Star, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the first president of the Miami Senior High School PTA.
Burial will be in the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery with Combs Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be Jack Crouch, Hammond Connolly, John D. Eckhoff, James Ellenberg, William Roetgen, and Arthur Voltz.
Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
about Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Name: Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Death Date: 1952
County of Death: Dade
State of Death: Florida
Other Death Place Information: Miami
Race: White
Gender: Female
Obtiturary Miami News:
Blindness No Bar
"OLE MISS" DIES: ADVISOR TO MANY
A blind, bedridden pioneer woman who was a friend, confidant, to hundreds of Miamians from children to public officials, died Thursday. She was Mrs. Margaret Mizzel McCrimmon, 68.
Crippled by arthritis when she was in her 40's, Ole Miss, as she was familiarly known, had spent the last 10 years in her bedroom of her home at 1552 SW 1st Street.
Although she was unable to move any of her crippled limbs, Mrs. McCrimmon's cheerfulness and vitality amazed friends. With a telephone propped under her chin,she would carry on long discussions of civic and world affairs with officials.
She used the telephone to organize and carry on a Bundles for Britian Campaign in the early days of World War II. She would set quotas for friends in whom she assigned tasks and prodded them verbally to see that the work was done.
Her service won her a British Kings Medal for Service, presented on behalf of the late George VI, by the British Consult in Miami.
Few, exept intimates knew, Ole Miss was blind most of her bedridden years. The fact was never known to her eight grandchildren and the children of friends who called to show her a new dress, a ribbon, flowers, and a toy.
Mrs. McCrimmon was born in Kingsland, Georgia. She moved to Miami in 1905, to teach school after graduating from Georgia State College for Women. She taught at the old Central School, on the site of the present day Miami Post Office, and was principal of the old Second Street School.
She was married in 1910 to Charles Thomas McCrimmon, a Georgian who came to Miami in 1896. Her husband built the first hard surface road in Miami, operated sucessfully as a banker, fruit canner, and lumberman before his death in 1917.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a Charter Member of the Shenandoah Presbyterian Church, where funeral services will be held at 3PM today. The Reverand Daniel J. Iverson who officiated at the marriage of each of the McCrimmon four children, will conduct the service.
Survivors include two sons, C.T., and Steve of Miami, two daughters, Mrs. Marvin Carr, Atlantic Beach, and Mrs. R.C. Gardner Jr. of Miami, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Peeples, Miami, and Mrs. Vertha Harrel, of Fernandina.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a early member of the Miami Woman's Club, Fort Dallas chapter of Order and Eastern Star, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the first president of the Miami Senior High School PTA.
Burial will be in the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery with Combs Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be Jack Crouch, Hammond Connolly, John D. Eckhoff, James Ellenberg, William Roetgen, and Arthur Voltz.
about Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Name: Margaret Misell McCrimmon
Death Date: 1952
County of Death: Dade
State of Death: Florida
Other Death Place Information: Miami
Race: White
Gender: Female
Obtiturary Miami News:
Blindness No Bar
"OLE MISS" DIES: ADVISOR TO MANY
A blind, bedridden pioneer woman who was a friend, confidant, to hundreds of Miamians from children to public officials, died Thursday. She was Mrs. Margaret Mizzel McCrimmon, 68.
Crippled by arthritis when she was in her 40's, Ole Miss, as she was familiarly known, had spent the last 10 years in her bedroom of her home at 1552 SW 1st Street.
Although she was unable to move any of her crippled limbs, Mrs. McCrimmon's cheerfulness and vitality amazed friends. With a telephone propped under her chin,she would carry on long discussions of civic and world affairs with officials.
She used the telephone to organize and carry on a Bundles for Britian Campaign in the early days of World War II. She would set quotas for friends in whom she assigned tasks and prodded them verbally to see that the work was done.
Her service won her a British Kings Medal for Service, presented on behalf of the late George VI, by the British Consult in Miami.
Few, exept intimates knew, Ole Miss was blind most of her bedridden years. The fact was never known to her eight grandchildren and the children of friends who called to show her a new dress, a ribbon, flowers, and a toy.
Mrs. McCrimmon was born in Kingsland, Georgia. She moved to Miami in 1905, to teach school after graduating from Georgia State College for Women. She taught at the old Central School, on the site of the present day Miami Post Office, and was principal of the old Second Street School.
She was married in 1910 to Charles Thomas McCrimmon, a Georgian who came to Miami in 1896. Her husband built the first hard surface road in Miami, operated sucessfully as a banker, fruit canner, and lumberman before his death in 1917.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a Charter Member of the Shenandoah Presbyterian Church, where funeral services will be held at 3PM today. The Reverand Daniel J. Iverson who officiated at the marriage of each of the McCrimmon four children, will conduct the service.
Survivors include two sons, C.T., and Steve of Miami, two daughters, Mrs. Marvin Carr, Atlantic Beach, and Mrs. R.C. Gardner Jr. of Miami, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Peeples, Miami, and Mrs. Vertha Harrel, of Fernandina.
Mrs. McCrimmon was a early member of the Miami Woman's Club, Fort Dallas chapter of Order and Eastern Star, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the first president of the Miami Senior High School PTA.
Burial will be in the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery with Combs Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be Jack Crouch, Hammond Connolly, John D. Eckhoff, James Ellenberg, William Roetgen, and Arthur Voltz.
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