Surrounded by family and friends, Mary Margaret Hutchinson Wimmer passed on peacefully to her next adventure on November 15, 2018 in her home in Viera (Melbourne), Florida. She loved life and loved people. She was born into this world on March 28, 1923 to her loving parents Charles William Hutchinson and Emily Daphene Taylor Hutchinson in Huntington, West Virginia. She was always very proud to be from Huntington, West Virginia. “Give that person a good strong West Virginia handshake!” she would say. She grew up with her two older siblings: sister, Emily Daphene Hutchinson Johnston, and brother, Charles William Hutchinson, Jr.,in a beautiful stucco home on Adams Avenue built by hand by her Mother’s father. She was a talented young girl who learned to play the piano and took tap dancing lessons. She and her brother performed in a tap dance recital. She loved jitterbugging and was known to be one of the best dancers in town. She held two different jobs working for the C and O Railroad and the International Nickel Company before marrying the love of her life, William Karl Wimmer. He made the Army his career and she became a loyal Army wife. They traveled from post to post around the world with stops in Japan (twice), Germany (where their daughter Mary Leslie Wimmer was born), California (where their son William Scott Wimmer was born), and ending with his retirement in Texas. Mary enjoyed Army life: the travel and the many, many friends she made (and kept) over the years. She was always proud of her membership in Eastern Star, a Masonic organization. After Bill, her beloved husband passed on, she moved to Indian River Colony Club in Viera (Melbourne), Florida, a retirement community set up for retired Armed Forces officers, a place they had looked for all over the country. Sadly, it broke ground the year he passed on. She lived there for 29 years. When she developed macular degeneration she started the V.I.P. Club (Visually Impaired Person’s). She also founded The Patriotic Club and brought in speakers to discuss important events of the day. She always reminded everyone to remember her as a “red blooded true blue American Patriot!”
She will be interred with her husband in Arlington National Cemetery on Monday September 30, 2019 at 11am. The three organizations she supported the most were Hillsdale College, Guide Dogs For The Blind and The National Museum of the United States Army.
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