Jeanne Fitzhugh Elwood

Jeanne Fitzhugh Elwood

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7 March 1924

Fort Sam Houston, Bexar County, Texas, USA

21 April 2022 in Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma, USA

Veteran, teacher, college dean, and paralegal.

Jeanne was born on March 7,1924 in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the first of four children of Lt. Ernest and Madeleine Elwood. As an "army brat," she lived in many places all over the country, even Hawaii. Jeanne graduated from A & M Consolidated High School, worked at several military bases, then joined the WAVES. The active duty for the WAVES began just a few weeks before the end of WWII, and she was stationed in New York most of that time. After being discharged from the Navy as a Yeoman Second Class, Jeanne earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Baylor University. She married Robert Rowlett, and the couple had four daughters and were married for sixty-three years.

Jeanne had numerous jobs throughout her life: earning "teacher of the year" teaching typing and short-hand classes at Perry High School in Ohio (after earning a teaching certificate from Malone College and Kent State); dean of Tyler Commercial College in Texas; then a paralegal for the U. S. Attorney's Office in Tyler, TX., retiring from that job in 1990.

Jeanne was a member of the Mary Tyler Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, for which she worked with the Naturalization Ceremonies in the Federal Courthouse. When she moved to Bartlesville, OK., she joined that Chapter of DAR. In 2018, she was honored for her 40 years of service to the DAR. She was a founding member of the Chapter GJ, PEO Sisterhood, where she worked many years on scholarships for women; after moving to Bartlesville, she transferred her membership to PEO-DW. Jeanne was active member of NARFE Chapter 0344 in Tyler. Another special honor she received was the "Women Who Took a Chance" award in 2006 at a special ceremony in Tyler, Texas. Jeanne is also registered by NSDAR in the Women's Memorial in Washington, D. C. under "Women in Military Service for America."