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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Buford Phillips RYMER: Birth: 4 NOV 1922 in Knoxville, TN. Death: 4 DEC 1965 in Kawakawa, N.Z.

  2. Charles Blakeman RYMER: Birth: 1 DEC 1924 in Knoxville, Knox Co., TN. Death: 28 JUL 1998 in Knoxville, Knox Co., TN

  3. Mary Catherin RYMER: Birth: 4 JUN 1926 in Cleveland, Bradley Co., TN. Death: 6 JUL 1974 in Jacksonville, Duval Co., FL


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Clyde Edwin RYMER: Birth: 4 APR 1946 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN. Death: 6 JAN 1987 in Gainsville, Alachua Co., FL


Notes
a. Note:   eat Smokey Mountains. As a young man, he worked for the Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad in Knoxville, where he met and married Margaret Dunn Phillips about 1921. He went to work with Tennessee Electric and Power Company in Cleveland, TN about 1923, where Margaret died in 1931, leaving children Phil age 9 and little Mary Catherin age 5. TEP was absorbed by Tennessee Valley Authority (T.V.A.) and Clyde worked with them in Chattanooga until he retired. He married Martha Louise Lett about 1939 and had a son, Clyde Edwin Rymer in 1946. He retired in 1957 and moved to Deland, Volusia County, Florida where he purchased a home settled in middle of a large grove. He received Social Security, plus Railroad Pension checks and each year he would sell his orange crop "on the tree" for several thousand dollars. This means the buyer would bring in pickers and pay Clyde based on the number of bushels picked. He bought some rental property in Daytona Beach, Florida but sold it when he was unable to keep up the maintenance himself. Disaster struck in 1967 when an unexpected deep freeze killed almost all of Clyde's orange trees back below the graft, destroying their commercial value. A housing development company bought the house and grove on E. Rich St. and he moved into a home he owned on Kentucky Ave. Louise had a stroke or heart attack at home and died at home. Clyde insisted on caring for himself at home but eventually had to enter a Nursing Home in Deland. He was very unhappy there and moved in with Charles and Betty for a while where he had a constant battle with Mrs. Harper, Betty's mother who also lived with them. Every day, they had a fight over who would go out and get the mail. He lived with Eddie and Janet in Tampa for a while and with Catherine and I in Jacksonville. He entered St. Jude Nursing Home in 1971 where Catherine visited him almost every day before he died unexpectedly. Poor Catherine went to his room to find the bed stripped and when she asked about her Dad, was told he had died. We laid him to rest beside Louise in Deland, Florida. Clyde Rymer was a most interesting person with vast knowledge of Railroad and electrical lore. He was a dispatcher for Tennessee Electric which consisted of monitoring electric consumption in various areas and switching voltages from area to area to provide ample coverage. He was fun to take on a trip, always insisting that we travel the back roads where he was acquainted with many people in small towns all over. He never traveled the Interstates on his own and you had to fight him to go on one even when you were driving in your own car and he was a passenger. A constant comment from Clyde was something like this, "See those high wires over there? They're 40,000 volts coming out of Hiwassee heading for Knoxville!" He could instantly identify all high wires and usually knew where they were coming from and going. While he became kind of "crotchety" in old age, he never lost his sense of humor and mostly was a delight to be around.
Note:   Clyde was born in Riceville, McMinn County, TN in the foothills of the Gr


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