Discovering your family history previously involved traveling to various records offices and spending hours sifting through files.Īt GenealogyBank, we have made family research easy by digitizing more than 330 years’ worth of Nacogdoches obituaries in our national newspaper database. Donations may be made to your favorite charity.Sorting through masses of historical archives to find your ancestors can be challenging. The family will celebrate his life at a private service. Many thanks to their staff for the care they provided to him during is last five years. In 2018, at the age of 96, he moved from his home in Hampstead, North Carolina to NHC Farragut Assisted Living in Knoxville, Tennessee. In the later years, he and his friend, Virginia Foster, of Wichita, Kansas enjoyed traveling and visiting elegant old mansions of yesteryear, historic homes, famous gardens, art museums and air museums. For relaxation, he wrote, but did not publish, prose, letters and poetry. Jack rode his bicycle daily until the age of 88 and had a continuing interest in astronomy which he pursued by reading, studying and star gazing. He spent several years as a member of the Belvedere Property Owners Association working on the Covenants committee and being a member of their multi-talented entertainment troupe. They took a number of vacation tours and cruises throughout North and Central America and Europe. In retirement, Jack enjoyed gardening, first with Jane, and then alone as he tended the gardens which she had designed. He continued with Westinghouse for 31 years before retiring and moving to Hampstead, North Carolina in 1987. He worked as an engineer and program manager for the Westinghouse Defense Center in Baltimore where he designed and developed radar, electro-optical sensors and electronic warfare equipment for military aircraft plus army ground-borne and navy shipboard electronics systems. Jack took engineering degrees from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He loved flying and remained in the active reserve until retirement in 1967 as a Lt. During the Korean conflict, he was recalled to be a radar observer on USAF RB-36's. He was awarded the Purple Heart for his service. While flying a supply mission to the Warsaw ghetto, Jack's plane was hit by enemy fire and he was wounded, carrying a piece of shrapnel in his ear for the rest of his life. In WWII, Jack flew 27 combat missions as a navigator of Air Corps B-17 bombers in the European theater. (Bonnie) in Nacogdoches, Texas, Timothy (Hona) in Kingston, Tennessee, and Kevin (Xiaoxi) in Cary, North Carolina and ten great grandchildren: Stella Jane, Silas, and Swinney of Nacogdoches, Texas Peyton, Elizabeth, Clara, Mary, and Anna of Kingston, Tennessee and Sunny and Skye of Cary, North Carolina. Stovall, of Knoxville, Tennessee three grandchildren: Jeremy P. Jack's lovely wife of 54 years, Margaret Jane Stovall (nee Harris), died Septemand is buried in their retirement community of Hampstead, North Carolina. Jack was predeceased by all his siblings and their spouses, Bill (Mildred) of Augusta, Kansas, and Bob (Dea) and Shirley Anne Hadley of Wichita, Kansas. (nee Cash) Stovall and grew up on the family farm in Peabody, Kansas. He was born in Florence, Kansas in 1922, the oldest child of Blucher P. He passed away at Parkwest Medical Center on June 18, 2023. Stovall celebrated his 101st birthday on at NHC Farragut in Knoxville, Tennessee with family and friends.
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