Margaret Long Chappell

Chappell, Margaret Elizabeth Long, age 97, passed away on February 28,2011 at NHC Healthcare, Farragut. She was a member of Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church. Margaret grew up in Morristown, TN, and graduated from the University of Tennessee. In a Botany class at U.T. she met her husband Clyde; the Tennessee Theatre was the site of their first date. Margaret began her teaching career in a one-room school house in Hamblen County while she was still in her teens, each year alternating between teaching for six months and attending U. T. for six months. During World War II she was a Red Cross Recreation Director at the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, FL and in Long Beach, CA. She later taught in Greenville, S.C. and in the English department at Bearden High School in Knoxville. A Knoxville resident since 1955, Margaret's service to her church included Sunday School teacher, Circle Leader, Elder and Stephen Minister. She was a charter member of the Andrew Bogle Daughters of the Revolution chapter and a member of Tennessee's First Families through her revolutionary ancestor John Long. She was a member of the Tennessee Retired Teachers, the U.T. Faculty Wives Club, the Agricultural Extension Service Wives, the Tennessee Rose Society, the American Rose Society and the Knoxville Symphony League. Margaret remembered riding in a horse and buggy and dancing the Charleston. Playing bridge, reading, entertaining, arranging and giving away roses from her husband's garden were all activities she enjoyed. She loved being a grandmother and took great delight and interest in the lives of her grandchildren. She remained a devoted fan of University of Tennessee sports, always wearing her orange and white on game days, and avidly following the Lady Vol basketball team. Margaret was preceded in death by her parents, Florence Murray and Henry Long, infant sister Priscilla Long, and husband Clyde K. Chappell. She is survived by daughter Joyce Chappell Simms and husband Bill, son Robert Kenton Chappell of Dania, FL, son William Shields Chappell and wife Jill of Huntsville, AL, grandchildren Margaret Josephine (Marje) Chappell, Boris Hans Peter Chappell of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Laura Simms Hanks and husband Zach of Los Angeles, CA, Catherine Margot Chappell of Trier, Germany, Christina Alison Simms of Atlanta, GA, daughter-in-law Connie Graham and husband Donnie, special nephew John Ford Chappell and wife Laura of Cypress, TX., step-grandchildren Amy and Bobby Wicker of Jacksonville, FL, SMSgt. Chad and TSgt Lee Anne Schulte of Colorado Springs, CO, seven step-great- grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Following a private burial, a celebration of her life will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 3,2011, at Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Avenue, 37919. The family will receive friends in the church's Barron Hall following the service of celebration. Memorials may be made to Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church. Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel is serving the family. Online condolences may be extended at www.rosemortuary.com

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Margaret Long Chappell

July 18, 1913 - February 28, 2011