Mary Emma Hammond Chappell

Mary Emma Hammond Chappell December 5, 1924 - November 10, 2010 COLUMBUS, GA— Mary Emma Hammond Chappell of Columbus passed away Wednesday, November 10, 2010. The service to celebrate her life will be Saturday, November 13, 2010 in the Chapel of Striffler-Hamby Mortuary at 4071 Macon Road in Columbus, Georgia. Reverend Olin Johnson of Shellman, Georgia will officiate. Burial will follow in Parkhill Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kemp, 2603 Country Club Road in Columbus following the service at Parkhill. Mrs. Chappell, the youngest of four children, was born on December 5, 1924. She lived in Junction City, Georgia and Thomaston, Georgia before moving to Columbus where she worked as a buyer at Kirven's Department Store during World War II. After the war, she married Bert Whipple Chappell. Mrs. Chappell was a very caring person with a strong work ethic. She would bring girls from the Anne Elizabeth Shepherd Home (then an orphanage) to her home where she mended their clothes and made them cookies while they played with her daughter, Susan. At the end of the day, Susan and her dad would drive them back to the orphanage. As the Anne Elizabeth Shepherd Home evolved to serve the children it serves today, she remained active in their Auxiliary. She always worked outside the home and was employed for many years as a dietician by the Muscogee County School District and Dekalb County School District. She instilled the same work ethic in her children. While still teenagers, Steve, her son, threw papers for the Ledger Enquirer and Susan, her daughter, worked at Mrs. Coulter's Flower Shop. Mrs. Chappell was predeceased by her husband of fifty years, Bert Whipple Chappell, her parents, Jere Mire Hammond and Nancy Adaline Benford Hammond, her sister, Addie Marie Hammond Green, her brothers, Luke Hammond and James Roedolph Hammond, as well as George Gill and Voncile Gill Trice. She is survived by her son, Stephen Gilbert Chappell and his wife, Margaret Ann Chappell of Rumson, New Jersey and her daughter, Susan Chappell Langford and her husband, Bryson H. Langford, Jr. of Shellman, Georgia. She is also survived by four grandchildren, Stephen Todd Chappell of Washington, DC, James Edward Butler, III of Atlanta, Georgia, Emily Chappell Butler of Atlanta, Georgia, and Susan Catherine Butler of New York City, New York. The family would like to extend heartfelt thanks to Kenya Davis, Rosemary Collier, and Lekisha Watkins, Mrs. Chappell's kind and loving caregivers, the family also appreciates the care and kindness of Columbus Hospice. Flowers are welcome and memorials may be made to the Anne Elizabeth Shepherd Home Auxiliary, 751 Double Churches Road, Columbus, Georgia 31904.