Julia Ann Diehl

Julia Ann Patch Diehl died on June 1, 2011, after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. She spent her last years in the loving care of the Quality Care facility in Orange Park. She was born in 1922 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Julia Littell and General Alexander McCarrell Patch Jr., who in World War II led the U.S. 7TH Army to victory in Southern and Eastern France. Mrs. Diehl was a 1942 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Agnes Scott College, and taught languages in various public schools. She later obtained a B.S. degree in Nursing Studies from Incarnate Word College in San Antonio, and worked as an R.N. in surgical intensive care. Her husband Chandler Diehl died in 1994. Her only sibling, Capt. A.M. Patch III of the 7th Army, was killed in action in Eastern France in 1945. She is survived by son Charles McCarrell Weston (Phyllis) of Fleming Island; daughters Julia Weston Heileson (Marv) of Jackson, WY, and Ann Patch Weston of Boerne, TX; and grandsons James Patch and Alexander Blake Nitschke, and John McCarrell Weston. Memorial contributions may be made to the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, One Intrepid Square, West 46th St. & 12th Ave., N.Y., N.Y., 10036. Memorial services will be held later. Hardage-Giddens Rivermead Funeral Home, 127 Blanding Blvd. Orange Park, Fl 32073, in charge of arrangements. Post tributes at www.hardage-giddensrivermead.com