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Grace Lee Smart Ditus

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Birth	:	17 Dec 1909 Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri, USA
Death	:	13 Jul 1997 Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Burial	:	Saint Sebastians Cemetery, Beckley, Raleigh County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.7691994, -81.1939011
Description	:	Anchorage Daily News July 16, 1997 Retired Anchorage school teacher Grace Lee Ditus, 87, died July 13, 1997, at Providence Alaska Medical Center. A memorial service was held at the First Presbyterian Church, 10th Avenue and G Street. The Rev. Dr. David Bleivik officiated. A reception followed. Mrs. Ditus was born Dec. 17, 1909, in Chillicothe, Mo., to Robert and Lillian Benjamin Smart. Her early years were spent in Carrollton and Excelsior Springs, Mo. She graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., in 1928, and began her teaching career in Burdett, Pawnee County, Kan. The family... Read More	Anchorage Daily News July 16, 1997 Retired Anchorage school teacher Grace Lee Ditus, 87, died July 13, 1997, at Providence Alaska Medical Center. A memorial service was held at the First Presbyterian Church, 10th Avenue and G Street. The Rev. Dr. David Bleivik officiated. A reception followed. Mrs. Ditus was born Dec. 17, 1909, in Chillicothe, Mo., to Robert and Lillian Benjamin Smart. Her early years were spent in Carrollton and Excelsior Springs, Mo. She graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., in 1928, and began her teaching career in Burdett, Pawnee County, Kan. The family recalled: ''There she met Verner F. Ditus, the love of her life. They were married on Oct. 28, 1931. ''The Ditus' marriage flourished for over 58 years and survived the Great Depression, the loss of their 2-year-old first born son, Sheldon, in 1935, and the Kansas dust bowl era. In addition to teaching high school for 31 years in Kansas, she assisted her husband in their livestock auction and farming endeavors in Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska.'' The couple moved to Anchorage in 1964 and embarked on second careers for the next two decades. She as a teacher and counselor, and he as a real estate broker. They traveled extensively throughout North America and Europe and especially enjoyed the aloha spirit of Hawaii. Mrs. Ditus, a victim of multiple sclerosis since 1966, also suffered since 1975 from ''tic douloureuxl,'' the intensively painful inflammation of the facial area known as Trigeminal Neuralgia. By submitting to experimental gamma knife procedures, Mrs. Ditus became symptom free in 1996. Her family said, ''Grace has given her family a legacy of love, courage, ambition, adventure and humanity.'' She was preceded in death by her husband, Verner, and son Sheldon. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Stan and Doris Ditus, and her daughter and son-in-law, Phyllis and Jon Dawson, of Anchorage; her grandchildren, Shelley and David Biegel, and Jon and Cindy Dawson, of Anchorage, and Donyel and Jim Niehues of Woodland, Calif., and eight great-grandchildren, Molly, Hannah and David Ditus Biegel, Jennifer and Christine Dawson, and Jimmie, Johnny and Lara Niehues. Arrangements are by Evergreen Memorial Chapel.

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Grace Lee Smart Ditus's memorial is located at: Saint Sebastians Cemetery, Beckley, Raleigh County, USA.
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Grace Lee Smart Ditus death on 13 Jul 1997 in Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
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Latitude: 37.7691994
Longitude: -81.1939011

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