Martha Milligan

Martha (Tootsie) Smallwood Milligan died at the age of 101 at Asbury Health Care Center in Maryville, TN on August 11, 2014. She was born in Chattanooga, TN on January 13, 1913, the eldest child of Lemuel Clayton (L C) and Elizabeth Smallwood. As a young girl she attended Bright School and Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga and later graduated from Marjorie Webster College in Washington D.C. The friendships she had and experiences she enjoyed were her fondest memories in her later years and provided her with many interesting and entertaining stories. Her journey took her from Chattanooga, to Bellbuckle, TN, to Rome, GA, to Augusta, GA, and back to Chattanooga in 1956, and finally Maryville in 1992. She owned and directed a summer camp for girls in Rome, GA for eighty years and later was director of Hidden Valley Camp for Girls near Chattanooga, TN. She retired from the admissions office at the University of TN Chattanooga in 1978. Her church was always an important part of her life and was much involved in church life wherever she lived. In 1992 she moved to Maryville to be near her family where she became a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. She was also a member of the Mary Blount Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was preceded in death by her parents L.C. and Elizabeth Smallwood, her brother, Clayton, and husband Harry Chapman Milligan. She is survived by two sisters, Collette Grady Mynatt and Mary Elizabeth Milligan, son David S. Milligan and Jane, daughter, Beth Milligan Dicus and Lawrence, grandchildren, Katie Milligan Woolington, David S. Milligan, Jr., Alice Milligan Prettyman, Ashley Dicus Baxter, Rebecca Dicus Roeber, and nineteen great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Maryville, TN, on Saturday, August 16, at 11:00 a.m.