Person Sheet

Name Emily Schoolfield WALLACE , Mother Birth Date 31 Jan 1912 Birth Place Paducah, Kentucky Occupation Housewife Cause of Dea Heart Failure Death Date 12 May 1986 Age: 74 Death Place Tupelo, Mississippi Schools Rhodes College Father Robert Wisdom WALLACE (1886-1968) Mother Isabella Maxwell SCHOOLFIELD (1888-1938)
Spouses
1 Dr. Charles Harold AVENT , Father Birth Date 10 Jun 1908 Birth Place Kernes, Texas Occupation Surgeon Cause of Dea Malignant Hypertension Death Date 15 Feb 1948 Age: 39 Death Place Memphis, Tennessee Schools University of Tennessee
Marriage Date 11 Jun 1938 Marriage Place 681 West Drive, Hein Park, Memphis, TN
Children (Living, Male) (Living, Male)
2 Julius Garnett BERRY  Birth Date 12 Oct 1907 Birth Place Noxapater, Mississippi Occupation Insurance Agent Cause of Dea Heart Failure Death Date 7 Nov 1966 Age: 59 Death Place Tupelo, Mississippi Father Joel Nelson BERRY Mother Evie GARNETT
Marriage Date 20 Nov 1954 Marriage Place Idlewild Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee
Notes for Emily Schoolfield WALLACE
Graduated from Miss Hutchinson's School of Memphis and attended Southwestern College (now Rhodes) of Memphis, class of 1933. She was a member of the Chi Omega Sorority, the Girls' Cotillion Club, the Royal Club and the Junior League of Memphis.
Notes for Charles Harold (Spouse 1)
Harold Avent received a A.B. degree at Southwestern College-Memphis(now Rhodes) were he was president of both his Senior Class as well as the Lynx Club, a cheerleader for all four years and a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was inducted into the honorary society of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) on April 23, 1929. In 1932 Harold received his M.A. degree from the University of Tennessee Medical School. He interned at Gallinger Hospital in Washington, D.C. and both the Ruptured and Crippled Hospital and the 5th Avenue Hospital in New York City and was a resident surgeon at John Gaston Hospital in Memphis specializing in general surgery as well as a member of the staff of Baptist Hospital. He joined the Army Medical Corp June 25, 1942 as a Captain and was assigned to the Third Auxiliary Surgical Group at San Antonio, Texas. On December 8, 1942 he sailed for England on the Queen Mary. He served as chief surgeon of the 44th Evacuation Hospital during the Eurpoean Campaign and had also served in Northern Africa, Sicily and Italy before being transfered to the 44th in March of 1944 where he was made Chief of Surgery. The 44th Evac Hospital, located in Malmedy, was almost captured during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944. The 44th Evacuation Hospital was attributed with "doing a magnificent job" in attempting to save emaciated slave laborers freed at teh Nordhausen, Germany, V-Bomb Pland. He was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service while in Europe from June 19, 1944 through September 22, 1944. His citation was for "the rapid organization and setting up of his hospital which enabled it to render immediate and efficient medical service to large numbers of servicemen and for his outstanding professional judgement and skill". He was discharged in October 1945 as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was discribed by one of his fellow officers as "...the type that suffered quietly; he never complained. He returned to his surgical practice in Memphis where he died two and a half years later at the age of thirty-nine. He was a member of the Military Order of World Wars and the University Club and was active in the Idlewild Presbyterian Church."