Widow of World War II naval hero LTCR Jack Wintle, killed in the 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal at the side of his admiral, Daniel Callaghan. She was a longtime and revered educator at Byrd High School and was the sponsor and christener of the original Destroyer USS Wintle.
Former Shreveport educator dies
* Mary Clyde Wintle was an assistant principal at Byrd.
From Staff Reports
Mary Clyde Wintle, former assistant principal of Byrd High School and a 1993 inductee into its hall of fame, died Saturday in Richardson, Texas. The long-time Shreveport resident was 85.
Wintle, an Arkansas native who taught Latin in Kansas from 1930-1933, came to Shreveport in the early 1940s after the death of her husband, Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, teaching Latin, English and History at Byrd. She was principal of Creswell Elementary School from 1957-58, before assuming the job of assistant principal in charge of curriculum and instruction at Byrd, a post she held until 1977. The following year, she was elected to the Caddo Parish School Board, serving until 1984.
Among her civic work was service on the board of the American Red Cross and the Volunteers of America. She was a past president of the Louisiana chapter of the Colonial Dames of America.
In 1988, she received the Distinguished Teacher Award at the White House. Upon her induction into the Byrd High School Hall of Fame, she joined her daughter Mary Jack Wintle in the first parent-child pair so recognized.
She moved to Dallas in 1995 to be with her younger daughter, Judith Reynolds, and her grandchildren.
She was the widow of Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, a Kansan and 1932 Annapolis graduate who died in the November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. LTCR Jack Wintle was killed by Japanese naval shellfire by the side of Adm. Daniel Callaghan on the bridge of the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco. The battle, one of the fiercest of World War II, claimed the lives of about 10,000 other U.S. and Japanese sailors, as well as about 24,000 Japanese troops.
Five years ago, Mrs. Wintle traveled to the South Pacific island near which her husband died to take part in the creation of a National Geographic documentary titled "The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal." The exploration of the ships lost in the battle was led by Dr. Robert Ballard, who helped find the hulks of the sunken Titanic and Bismarck.
At that time, Wintle and her eldest daughter, Mary Jack "Jackie" Wintle, took part in a memorial and dedication of a memorial to those who died.
"I threw out a wreath in memory of my husband," she told The Times later. "I couldn't stop crying, I'd held it back so long."
A memorial service will be Monday at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Shreveport, following private graveside services here.
Published in The Times, Shreveport, Sunday, January 12, 1997.
Former Shreveport educator dies
* Mary Clyde Wintle was an assistant principal at Byrd.
From Staff Reports
Mary Clyde Wintle, former assistant principal of Byrd High School and a 1993 inductee into its hall of fame, died Saturday in Richardson, Texas. The long-time Shreveport resident was 85.
Wintle, an Arkansas native who taught Latin in Kansas from 1930-1933, came to Shreveport in the early 1940s after the death of her husband, Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, teaching Latin, English and History at Byrd. She was principal of Creswell Elementary School from 1957-58, before assuming the job of assistant principal in charge of curriculum and instruction at Byrd, a post she held until 1977. The following year, she was elected to the Caddo Parish School Board, serving until 1984.
Among her civic work was service on the board of the American Red Cross and the Volunteers of America. She was a past president of the Louisiana chapter of the Colonial Dames of America.
In 1988, she received the Distinguished Teacher Award at the White House. Upon her induction into the Byrd High School Hall of Fame, she joined her daughter Mary Jack Wintle in the first parent-child pair so recognized.
She moved to Dallas in 1995 to be with her younger daughter, Judith Reynolds, and her grandchildren.
She was the widow of Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, a Kansan and 1932 Annapolis graduate who died in the November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. LTCR Jack Wintle was killed by Japanese naval shellfire by the side of Adm. Daniel Callaghan on the bridge of the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco. The battle, one of the fiercest of World War II, claimed the lives of about 10,000 other U.S. and Japanese sailors, as well as about 24,000 Japanese troops.
Five years ago, Mrs. Wintle traveled to the South Pacific island near which her husband died to take part in the creation of a National Geographic documentary titled "The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal." The exploration of the ships lost in the battle was led by Dr. Robert Ballard, who helped find the hulks of the sunken Titanic and Bismarck.
At that time, Wintle and her eldest daughter, Mary Jack "Jackie" Wintle, took part in a memorial and dedication of a memorial to those who died.
"I threw out a wreath in memory of my husband," she told The Times later. "I couldn't stop crying, I'd held it back so long."
A memorial service will be Monday at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Shreveport, following private graveside services here.
Published in The Times, Shreveport, Sunday, January 12, 1997.
Widow of World War II naval hero LTCR Jack Wintle, killed in the 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal at the side of his admiral, Daniel Callaghan. She was a longtime and revered educator at Byrd High School and was the sponsor and christener of the original Destroyer USS Wintle.
Former Shreveport educator dies
* Mary Clyde Wintle was an assistant principal at Byrd.
From Staff Reports
Mary Clyde Wintle, former assistant principal of Byrd High School and a 1993 inductee into its hall of fame, died Saturday in Richardson, Texas. The long-time Shreveport resident was 85.
Wintle, an Arkansas native who taught Latin in Kansas from 1930-1933, came to Shreveport in the early 1940s after the death of her husband, Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, teaching Latin, English and History at Byrd. She was principal of Creswell Elementary School from 1957-58, before assuming the job of assistant principal in charge of curriculum and instruction at Byrd, a post she held until 1977. The following year, she was elected to the Caddo Parish School Board, serving until 1984.
Among her civic work was service on the board of the American Red Cross and the Volunteers of America. She was a past president of the Louisiana chapter of the Colonial Dames of America.
In 1988, she received the Distinguished Teacher Award at the White House. Upon her induction into the Byrd High School Hall of Fame, she joined her daughter Mary Jack Wintle in the first parent-child pair so recognized.
She moved to Dallas in 1995 to be with her younger daughter, Judith Reynolds, and her grandchildren.
She was the widow of Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, a Kansan and 1932 Annapolis graduate who died in the November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. LTCR Jack Wintle was killed by Japanese naval shellfire by the side of Adm. Daniel Callaghan on the bridge of the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco. The battle, one of the fiercest of World War II, claimed the lives of about 10,000 other U.S. and Japanese sailors, as well as about 24,000 Japanese troops.
Five years ago, Mrs. Wintle traveled to the South Pacific island near which her husband died to take part in the creation of a National Geographic documentary titled "The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal." The exploration of the ships lost in the battle was led by Dr. Robert Ballard, who helped find the hulks of the sunken Titanic and Bismarck.
At that time, Wintle and her eldest daughter, Mary Jack "Jackie" Wintle, took part in a memorial and dedication of a memorial to those who died.
"I threw out a wreath in memory of my husband," she told The Times later. "I couldn't stop crying, I'd held it back so long."
A memorial service will be Monday at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Shreveport, following private graveside services here.
Published in The Times, Shreveport, Sunday, January 12, 1997.
Former Shreveport educator dies
* Mary Clyde Wintle was an assistant principal at Byrd.
From Staff Reports
Mary Clyde Wintle, former assistant principal of Byrd High School and a 1993 inductee into its hall of fame, died Saturday in Richardson, Texas. The long-time Shreveport resident was 85.
Wintle, an Arkansas native who taught Latin in Kansas from 1930-1933, came to Shreveport in the early 1940s after the death of her husband, Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, teaching Latin, English and History at Byrd. She was principal of Creswell Elementary School from 1957-58, before assuming the job of assistant principal in charge of curriculum and instruction at Byrd, a post she held until 1977. The following year, she was elected to the Caddo Parish School Board, serving until 1984.
Among her civic work was service on the board of the American Red Cross and the Volunteers of America. She was a past president of the Louisiana chapter of the Colonial Dames of America.
In 1988, she received the Distinguished Teacher Award at the White House. Upon her induction into the Byrd High School Hall of Fame, she joined her daughter Mary Jack Wintle in the first parent-child pair so recognized.
She moved to Dallas in 1995 to be with her younger daughter, Judith Reynolds, and her grandchildren.
She was the widow of Navy LTCR Jack Wintle, a Kansan and 1932 Annapolis graduate who died in the November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. LTCR Jack Wintle was killed by Japanese naval shellfire by the side of Adm. Daniel Callaghan on the bridge of the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco. The battle, one of the fiercest of World War II, claimed the lives of about 10,000 other U.S. and Japanese sailors, as well as about 24,000 Japanese troops.
Five years ago, Mrs. Wintle traveled to the South Pacific island near which her husband died to take part in the creation of a National Geographic documentary titled "The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal." The exploration of the ships lost in the battle was led by Dr. Robert Ballard, who helped find the hulks of the sunken Titanic and Bismarck.
At that time, Wintle and her eldest daughter, Mary Jack "Jackie" Wintle, took part in a memorial and dedication of a memorial to those who died.
"I threw out a wreath in memory of my husband," she told The Times later. "I couldn't stop crying, I'd held it back so long."
A memorial service will be Monday at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Shreveport, following private graveside services here.
Published in The Times, Shreveport, Sunday, January 12, 1997.
