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Maymie Pearl Shelton Couch

17 Jul 1895 – 19 Sep 1990

Birth	17 Jul 1895
Death	19 Sep 1990
Cemetery	Maplewood Cemetery Tullahoma , Coffee County , Tennessee , USA
Added by	Pamela Rayder on 05 May 2023
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207586362

Bio

She was the daughter of Henderson Ambrose "Hence" and Mary Lee (Austell) Shelton and married John Houston Couch - 27 Jul 1919 - Franklin Co., Tennessee. Her obituary follows: Mrs. Pearl Johnson Couch of 300 North Anderson Street, Tullahoma, died September 19 at the home of her daughter, Mary Statum, at 429 East Lauderdale Street. She was 95 years old. A native of Lincoln County, she was the daughter of the late Hence and Mary Austell Shelton. Her husband, John Couch, died in 1951. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Church of God, the American Legion Auxiliary, and was a Gold Star Mother. Services were last Friday at Tullahoma Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. Jim Hodge, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, officiating. Burial was in Maplewood Cemetery. Survivors in addition to her daughter, Mrs. Statum, are two other daughters, Mamie Nippers and Betty Wooten, both of Tullahoma; a sister, Mrs. Rilla Tucker, Decherd; five grandchildren, one step-grandchild, and five great-grandchildren. Source: The Tullahoma News Tullahoma, Tennessee Friday, September 28, 1990

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Family

Parents

• Henderson Ambrose "Hence" Shelton 1847–1909
• Mary Lee Austell Metcalf 1869–1952

Spouse

• John Houston Couch 1886–1951 FaG

Siblings

• Fannie Elizabeth Shelton Sullenger 1887–1965
• Horace Alton Shelton 1893–1984
• Sylvesta "Nettie" Shelton Plattenburg 1898–1972
• Maggie Rilla Shelton Tucker 1906–1993

Children

• Mary Lee Couch Statum 1921–1996 FaG
• PVT John Davis Couch 1925–1944 FaG
• Betty Jo Couch Wooten 1931–2021 FaG

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