Mable Grace Burnett Price

Mable Grace Price September 8, 1924 - October 18, 2013 Mable passed away on Friday, October 18, 2013 with her family beside her. Mable was born September 8, 1924 in Neuberts, Knox Co., Tennessee. The house in which she was born still stands on Burnett Creek Road, adjacent to Burnett Creek, both of which were named for her family, pioneer Tennessee settlers. Her parents, James Decatur Burnett and Ethel Clowers Burnett had nine children, seven boys and one other girl, all of whom predeceased Mable. Mable met John when she was vacationing in Miami in late 1943 and he was a cadet at the Pan American Airways School of Navigation at the University of Miami in nearby Coral Gables. After John graduated he became a navigator on an 8th Air Force B-17 bomber, flying missions over Germany, and Mable returned to her home in Knoxville. John and his crew were shot down over Germany on their seventeenth mission and were Prisoners-of-War until shortly before the end of the war. After liberation and eventual return to the U. S., John was taken to McCloskey General Hospital in Temple, TX, where he and Mable were reunited. Shortly afterwards, they were married in the hospital chapel. She and John moved to Chicago, IL, where John continued his education at Northern Illinois College of Optometry. Their first born, the twins, Judy and Carolyn were born there. After returning to Texas they moved to Amarillo where John practiced optometry for four years and where their youngest child, Nancy was born. Then they moved to Paris, TX, in 1953, where Mable and John and the whole family were confirmed at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross. Mable was very active in church activities at Holy Cross in Paris, continuing such activities after they moved to Ft. Worth and transferred their membership to All Saints Episcopal Church in 1963. She was a long time member of St. Anne's Guild and chairman of the Book Store for many years. Mable and John moved to Georgetown in 2011, to be closer to their children. She had three children, seven grandchildren, five surviving, and four great grandchildren. Mable is survived by John, her husband of 68 years and their daughters, Judy McKinney and her husband Howard, of Round Rock, TX, Carolyn Cherry and her husband, Atwood, of Georgetown, TX, and Nancy Alloway and her husband Wesley, of Leesburg, FL. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 26, 2013, at 11 am at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown, Texas. Friends who wish to express their love in a tangible way are requested to do so by making a gift to the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth of the Anglican Church of North America, Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown, Texas or Scott and White Hospital in Round Rock, Texas.