Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 88 years of age. Jeanie is survived by her son William Howard (Ward)
Cammack Jr. (Shelley), granddaughters Julia Cammack Truemper (John) (Nashville), Alice Laird Bell (New York City), Julia Meriwether Bell (Australia) and Ward Witt Cammack (Nashville) in addition to loved one Lucie Wallace Cammack. Jeanie is preceded in death by her husband, William Howard (Bill) Cammack, granddaughter Martha Locke Cammack, her parents, Frederick William Hecker and Julia Fay Norwood Chalfant, stepfather Caleb Powell Haun and her later stepfather Bertram Humble Chalfant.
Born in Nashville on December 22, 1932, Jeanie spent her early childhood with her mother and father in
Detroit and with her mother in Chicago after the untimely death of her father. She and her mother returned to Nashville in 1937. Jeanie attended Parmer School and Ward Belmont Preparatory School before graduating from the Madeira School in Fairfax County, Virginia. She attended Vanderbilt
University (member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority), where she met Bill, and they were married in
1952 at Christ Church Cathedral.
Soon after, they achieved their pilot licenses together. Years later they purchased a farm in Hickman
County, nestled between the Duck and Piney Rivers, where they found peace and instituted one of the
early conservation easements by way of the Land Trust for Tennessee. They traveled extensively
through Europe, explored remote parts of South America on numerous trips, and loved opera. An
inherent intellectual, Jeanie read constantly and maintained an encyclopedic recall for many years. She
was an avid tennis player and duplicate bridge Life Master and was deeply devoted to her many
dachshunds and Jack Russell terriers. Like a good martini, her humor was dry and British.
The family wishes to send a special thank you to the staff at Abe’s Garden Community for their care and
compassion over the last 17 months of Jeanie’s life.
A graveside service will be held on Monday, June 21, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 1101
Lebanon Pike, Nashville, Tennessee 37210.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Alive Hospice of Nashville, 1718 Patterson St., Nashville, TN
37203 or Abe’s Garden Community, 115 Woodmont Blvd., Nashville, TN 37205.
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