Anna Elisa Trimble (
1914 - 2007)
On October 15, 2007
Anna Elisa
Andres Trimble passed away in Augusta, Ga. after a lengthy
illness.
Mrs.
Trimble
was born January 10, 1914
in
Frankfort, Ky. to Jessie Cooper Ellis and Benjamin Andres, a
minister for over fifty years in the Presbyterian Church in
Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana and Georgia. In 1934, she received her
A.B. Degree
from Centre
College in Danville, Ky. and subsequently pursued a career
in
social work, organizing and serving an eight county area in
central
Kentucky under the Social Security Administration.
On Aug.
24, 1938, she married
Ben Perkins Trimble, a banker at the Citizens National Bank
in
Russellville, Ky. In 1942, the family moved to the Atlanta
area, and
soon joined Central Presbyterian Church. During this time,
she served
as
a Camp Fire Girl leader, a sponsor of the Atlanta Junior
Music Club and
the Southern Ballet, and as Director of the Junior Day Camp
at Fritz
Orr Camp.
After
receiving a Masters
Degree in Education from Emory University in 1953, Mrs.
Trimble taught
at Druid Hills High from 1955 to 1963. In 1961, the family
moved to
Roswell, Ga. and became members of the Roswell Presbyterian
Church and
subsequently, the Northminster Presbyterian Church, where
they were
active in many church activities, including Sunday School
and
choir.
In 1963, she joined the faculty at
Chamblee High, where she taught until her retirement in
1974. In 1970,
she was honored by Yale University with one of four national
Distinguished Teaching Awards.
The Trimbles were active entertainers at the Timberlake home
in
Roswell. Guests frequently included family, friends, and
visitors from
abroad, as well as participants in the Atlanta
Turkish-American
Association, the Atlanta Committee for International
Visitors, and the
Experiment for International Living. Both she and her
husband were avid
gardeners and following retirement, she spent many hours
horseback
riding.
During the administration of Gov. Jimmy Carter, she served
on
the committee to revamp the state education law.
During the 1976
Presidential campaign, (and again in 1980), she
participated as a volunteer in the Peanut Brigade. After the
Carter Presidency, she worked for many years as a
volunteer in
the Carter Center.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and
two sisters,
Josephine Smith Cannon and Faye Esther Linch. She is
survived by a
son Benjamin Andres Trimble and daughter-in-law
Joanne Swendsen Trimble of Austin, Texas, a daughter Jessie
Romney
Ozmelek and
son-in-law Savas Ozmelek of Augusta, Ga., a grandson and
granddaughter-in-law Benjamin Raif and Kerry McEnerney
Ozmelek of
Pittsburgh, Pa., a
granddaughter and grandson-in-law Elisa Aylin and David
Michael
Lewallen, Jr. of Canton,
Ga., and three great-grandsons Evan Raif and Ryan Preston
Ozmelek and
Cameron Michael Lewallen.
A
funeral service will be held at Northminster Presbyterian
Church on
Old Alabama Road in Roswell at 2:00PM on Saturday, October
20th with
burial at 10:00AM, Monday, Oct 22 in the family plot in
Maple Grove
Cemetery,
Russellville, Ky.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the
Carter Center (cartercenter.org/donate/index.html)
or Centre College (gifts.centre.edu)
Memorial Internet site: btrimble.net/mother
