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Nona Rowe Mitchell
21 Feb 1887 – 11 Jul 1951
| Birth | 21 Feb 1887 |
| Death | 11 Jul 1951 |
| Cemetery | Oak Hill Burial Park Lakeland , Polk County , Florida , USA |
| Added by | Donna McPherson on 17 Oct 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78552855 |
Bio
St. Petersburg Times 13 Jul 1951 p 16 Mrs. Nona Rowe Mitchell Dies At Lakeland Hospital Mrs. Nona Rowe Mitchell, 64, mother of Paul Mitchell, veterans' columnist for the St. Petersburg Times, died at Morrell Memorial Hospital, Lakeland at 7:55 a.m. Wednesday morning after a short illness. Mrs. Mitchell was the widow of W. T. Mitchell, well known public accountant in Lakeland for 20 years. They were well known in central Florida. Mrs. Mitchell continued her husband's business as a tax expert following his death January 23, 1950. Mrs. Mitchell was admitted to the hospital nine days before she expired. She became ill within a half hour after returning from a two-weeks vacation trip with her relatives in Alabama and Georgia. Funeral arrangements under Gentry-Morrison in Lakeland are being delayed pending arrival of a son from the battlefronts in Korea. Sgt. Arthur James Mitchell, serving with the First Marine Division in Korea, is being flown here on emergency leave. She is survived by a third and oldest son, William Rowe Mitchell, a combat veteran of the Coast Guard who went through four D-Day landings in World War II. Her son, Paul, is currently serving as an Air Force captain at MacDill Air Force Base. Other survivors include a brother, Paul Rowe, Falkville, Ala.; four sisters, Mrs. Lelia Plemons, Mrs. Stella Clark and Mrs. Emily Wiley of Falksville, and Mrs. Lannie Smith of Panama City. Other survivors include three grandsons: Bruce Mitchell, 7, and Walter Mitchell, 3, of St. Petersburg, and William (Billy) Mitchell of Lakeland. Mrs. Mitchell was born in South Alabama and moved to Falkville where she attended a Normal School. Following her marriage she lived in Atlanta, Ga., West Palm Beach and Tampa. The family moved to Lakeland in 1930.
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Siblings
- Jeffrie Lawrence Rowe 1884–1946
- Lela Rowe Plemmons 1885–1985
- Stella Annie Rowe Clark 1889–1987
- Paul Albert Rowe Sr 1891–1983
- Powell Cleveland Rowe 1892–1930
- Lannie Rowe Sudduth 1897–1956
- John Pickens Rowe Jr 1899–1926
- Mattie Lee Rowe 1902–1903
Children
- William Rowe Mitchell 1911–1970 FaG
- Paul Dayton Mitchell 1915–1997 FaG
- Arthur James Mitchell 1919–1979 FaG
- Virginia Mitchell 1921–1921 FaG
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