Wynell Tankersley Scott Reid

Wynell Tankersley Scott Reid, 88, died peacefully at Peachtree Plantation in Oakwood, on April 21, 2010. Mrs. Reid was born to Will and Inez Tankersley at Murrayville, in 1921.

A graduate of Lyman Hall High School in 1939, she enrolled in the Erlanger Hospital School of Nursing in Chattanooga, Tennessee and graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1942. She married Army serviceman Elmer J. Scott in 1942 and later followed her Georgia family to Detroit, Michigan during WWII after Mr. Scott was deployed to the European theatre. When the war ended, they settled in Ohio and after Mr. Scottâ