In Memoriam

Etta B. Stinson Williamson (1905-2011)

Etta B. Stinson Williamson, the oldest graduate of Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, died last month at the age of 106.

Stinson was born in 1905 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. As a young girls she moved to Jackson, Tennessee. She graduated from Lane College in 1928 and had a 48-year career as a teacher in the public schools.

Wesley C. McClure, the current president of Lane College, had Williamson as his first-grade teacher.

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