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- "I went from first grade through high school at Camp Smoky. It was not totally a private school. 5 months were free and Dad paid the rest tuition for the rest of the year. I always knew that as a little girl I was going to Carson Newman" (Emma Deane)
She graduated from Carson Newman College. She taught first grade at Smoky, and one other school she taught all grades one-eight.
She was originally named when a visitor was at her house and heard the children calling her "sister". (Her brothers and sisters were all named after family members, but when she was born, they had used up all the family names.) The visitor told her mother that it was a shame for a two-year old not to have a name. She looked up at the visitor and said,"I do have a name. It is Emma Deane." After that she would no longer answer to "sister". Emma Deane Caton had given her a pair of white Roman sandels and she thought they were beautiful, so she chose to name herself after Emma Deane Caton.
"The church organ was up for sale, so mother gave Laura the money to go and buy it because I was taking piano lessons and needed it to practice." (Emma Deane)
She was called "Nan-Naw" by her granddaughter, Sherry Lynn Sorrells, who could not say Mam-Maw, and it stuck.
She taught school at Phi Beta Phi in Gatlinburg, TN for years. There is a lengthy article on her retirement in records of her granddaughter Sherry S. Finchum.
1975: Mrs. Ingle retires at Pi Phi. First graders entering Pi Beta Phi in the fall will find it different from many of those who have preceded them. There will be someone missing - Mrs. Emma Dean Ingle is retiring when school breaks for the summer. Mrs. Ingle has been teaching for 40 years in this area. Mrs. Ingle taught at Dudley, Greenbrier, Richardson's Cover, Vanner, Smoky Mountain Academy, and Glades before comning to Pi Beta Phi. She has always taught the primary grades (1-3) except for one year which she spent teaching eighth graders. Retirment is really more of a transition for Mrs. Ingle. She may not be teaching full-time, but she does plan to stay busy. Her plans include traveling, civic work, and maybe, just maybe, some subtitute teaching.
I have a copy of a contract with Sevier County, for Emma Dean Clark as principal of Dudley School. It is dated 16 Aug 1930 for 65.00.
She passed away during recovery following emergency surgery to repair a hernia in her bowels . Her heart, which had been regulated by a pace-maker for over 10 years, just stopped beating. She had Alzheimer's Disease for many years.
Cause of death is listed as: Sepsis, strangulated inguinal hernia
Social Security Death Index
Name: Emma D. Woltemate
SSN: 410-68-8261
Last Residence: 37760 Jefferson City, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States of America
Born: 15 Mar 1910
Died: 5 Sep 2002
State (Year) SSN issued: Tennessee (1959 )
When she died she owned 4 separate pieces of the Clark estate property of her parents. Steve Ratcliff was working for a realtor in Sevier County, TN and he is who helped Loretta and Fred to sell these pieces after Emma Deane died.
Woltemate, Emma Deane Clark Ingle - age 92, of Jefferson City, Tennessee, formerly of Gatlinburg, passed away on Thursday, September 5, 2002, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. She was a member fo the First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg, the Retired Teachers Association, Phi Beta Phi Sorority, Sevier County Chapter of the OES. She was retired after forty years teaching at the Phi Beta Phi Elementary School. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Fred E. Ingle and William J. Woltemate; brothers and sisters, Newton Clark, Geneva Shields, Laura Ogle, Mary Clark and James A. Clark. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Loretta and Fred Sorrells of Jefferson City; step son Bob Woltemate of Gatlinburg; granchildren, Mark and Sherry Finchum of Jefferson City, Tim and Tracy Sorrells of Greenville, SC, Clark and Karen Sorrells of Asheville, NC, Dennis and Carol Woltemate of Delaware, Marion Marie Howell of Delaware; great-grandchildren, Brent, Eric , and Katie McAfee of Jefferson City, Caleb, Jordan and Emma Sorrells of Greenville, SC, Lillie, Hannah, and Jacob Sorrells of Asheville, NC, Brittany Woltemate of Delaware, and several nieces and nephews. Family and friends will meet at the Shiloh Cemetery in Pigeon Forge, TN, Sunday, Septer 8, 2002, at 2:00 p.m. for graveside memorial services. In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial donations be made to the American Heart Association, 4708 Papermill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37909 , or the Alzheimer's Association, PO Box 10088, Knoxville, TN 37939. Arrangements by Farrar Funeral Home, in Jefferson City, Tenn. (865) 475-3892.
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1910 - 2002 (92 years)
