Marie B. Connor Ramsey

She was a graduate of Mosheim High School and Greeneville Sanatorium and Hospital School of Nursing. Her second year of training was at Gallanger Municipal Hospital in Washington, D.C. She spent her nursing career in private duty nursing except for short periods of surgical nursing at the Medical College of Virginia and the University of Chicago. Her private duty nursing was in Richmond, Virginia, Chicago, Illinois, and Greeneville, Tennessee. While in Chicago, she did many cases with Dr. Clark Huggins who won a Nobel Prize for extensive research in prostate cancer.

She was a member of First Presbyterian Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Cecil B. and Anna Brown Butler; her first husband of 53 years: William Bruffie Connor; her second husband of eight years: William Doak Ramsey; her daughter: Elizabeth Jane Connor; and two brothers: Minnis C. Butler and James A. Butler.

She is survived by a step-daughter and husband: Ella and Gary Durr of Mansfield, Texas; and special friends, Dr. Skip (Walter) Mason and Carolyn Isaac.

She wrote: “Many thanks to my special daughter; even though she was a step, she was my love as well as her husband, Ella Joyce Ramsey Durr and Gary Durr.”

She is also survived by special friends, Dr. Skip (Walter) Mason and Carolyn Isaac.

There will be no visitation or service at this time.

A private memorial service will be at a later date.