Charles Buehl and Jane Ann Woolverton
Husband Charles Buehl
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:Marriage:
Wife Jane Ann Woolverton
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:
Father: Freeland Elijah Woolverton Mother: Artie Faye Holloway
Children
1 F Jane Buehl
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:Spouse: Roy Coln
2 M Buehl
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Charles Buehl
FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF21585
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General Notes: Wife - Jane Ann Woolverton
FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF21579
NOTE: PRIN MH:I11511
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Research Notes: Wife - Jane Ann Woolverton
Eulogy by her daughter, Jane Buehl Coln:
Here is a copy of the eulogy I gave at my mom's funeral. I am really missing my mom tonight! You can click on a picture to scroll through all the pics I have posted.
"My mom, Jane Ann Woolverton was born at home in Arkansas on May 18, 1934, the daughter of Freeland and Artie Woolverton and the youngest of 4 children. Sharecroppers, the family moved to Missouri and my mother graduated from Gideon High School before her parents moved back to Woolverton Mountain.
When she was around 12 years old, she had saved enough money picking cotton to buy a bedroom suite for herself. She told me once that when they were picking in the fields bounded by electric fencing to keep out the cows, the children would have a contest to see who could hold on to the electric wire the longest.
Mom went on to a Baptist college and then to the Baptist School of Nursing in Memphis, where she studied psychiatry and eventually acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in psychiatry, while doing a little modeling. She and her roommate worked at the old Baptist Hospital downtown and were the ones who set up the Psychiatric floor there.
But soon after, her career all went out the window when, while living in her apartment with her roommate on North Belvedere, she met her balding musician neighbor and fell in love. They were married in March 1957 and later on I came along. She used to sing to me at night and our motto was ‘We three’ until my brother was born. When they brought him home from the hospital Mom said I looked at him in amazement and said ‘Look at hims little hands!’
Though she was married to her up and coming popular musician, Mom had her own claim to fame. In around 1963 a relative, Merle Kilgore, wrote a song about Mom’s homeplace that went to #1 on the country charts, They Say Don’t Go on Wolverton Mountain. If it was mentioned, she would even sing it for you, with my Dad and us kids laughing in the background!
We had the idyllic 50’s style family with Mom taking care of the kids and having supper on the table precisely at 5:30 while my Dad worked several jobs, a ‘real’ job in the daytime and music atnight, to make ends meet.
She made all my clothes, most of hers, and even made clothes for my Barbie dolls. She made this coverlet (pointing to the casket) for her own funeral several years ago. She was very creative in the kitchen, an excellent cook, knitted and crocheted, and took classes such as cake decorating. She sang to us and read and made up stories at bedtime, cooked us breakfast each morning before school and had a snack for us when we got home. She planned elaborate birthday parties. She was a great Mom, a caring wife.
Mom’s style was understated and elegant. Sometimes in public in the early 60’s, we were mistaken for the Kennedys with my mom’s striking good looks and 2 kids.
When we left the nest, my mother first worked at my dad’s Pinky Buehl Entertainment Agency and then later got a job with the state at the Tennessee Job Service, where for years afterward people would recognize her trademark hairstyle and exclaim ‘There’s the Job Service lady!’
She loved participating in classes and learning new things, so, when the Memphis Police Department started the Citizens Police Academy program, she was one of its first participants. She proudly displayed her graduation certificate, even in her room at the assisted living.
In the late 90’s my father became ill with Alzheimers and Mom, refusing to place him in a nursing home, took care of him almost single-handedly for 3 years until his death in 2000, losing 40 lbs. and much of her lust for life. What an incredible lesson in perseverance! Since then she has missed him terribly and looked forward to the days when she could join him.
Mom loved her church. Married at Bellevue Baptist, she joined McLean Baptist Church and after we moved from Avalon Street to East Memphis, she joined Colonial Baptist Church where she remained activein Sunday School and church until her health forced her to stop going. Even then she gratefully and faithfully heard the services on tapes that her friends Nell Graves and Billye Doyle brought each week. She also had a network of fine friends that have stayed loyal throughout her long illness and declining years and we thank you for that.
She has been at Olive Grove Terrace assisted living for well over 3 ½ years and again, has made wonderful friends there, among the residents and workers. Just Saturday, 5 of the lovely young ladies who cared for her came to visit her and were some of the last people she visited with. She loved them all and they loved her and handled her with such gentleness, and I appreciate that! She loved playing Bingo and going to ‘Happy Hour’ on Fridays when her steadfast friend, her ‘Friday friend’,Billy Doyle came for her regular visit. We even danced with her in her wheelchair a couple of weeks ago at the Hootenanny there which has been broadcast on Olive Branch TV.
One of the last sentenced she uttered this weekend was ‘Hurry, get the wheelchair. I want to go home’.
She is there now."
Notes: Marriage
FTM
MARR: RIN MH:FF6177
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