Nell (George) Winnie passed away on October 12, 2020 at the Richmond County Hospice Haven.
Mrs. Winnie was born in Stafford County, Virginia on December 1, 1917. She is predeceased by her parents, Elmer and Eva Crismond, four sisters and two brothers, and her husband of 45 years, Lt. Col Earle R. Winnie of Southern Pines, NC.
Mrs. Winnie attended Business College in Washington, D.C. and worked as a secretary at the American Automobile Association and several U.S. Government Agencies in the Washington, D.C. area. During World War II she worked for the Metals Reserve Company, a subsidiary of Reconstruction Finance Company, which managed the scrap metal drive for the war effort. She was a charter member of the Defense Supply Agency in Alexandria, VA. where she met and married Earl Winnie in 1967. Other locations of Mrs. Winnie’s employment were U.S. Navy Yard, the Pentagon, and the National Institutes of Health where she was Secretary to the Chief of the Laboratory of Neutral Control which at the time was experimenting with creating a mechanical hand which would respond to impulses from the brain to perform as would a natural hand.
After retirement, Mrs. Winnie and her husband moved to Southern Pines, NC and lived in Knollwood Village where they enjoyed golf and bridge. She joined Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church in 1984 and until her husband’s illness, attended church services regularly.
Mrs. Winnie is survived by her son, John S. George of Boone, NC; and several nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to the Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery will be at a later date.
She is now playing her banjo in heaven with her family.
Online condolences may be made to www.bolesfuneralhome.com
Services entrusted to Boles Funeral Home of Southern Pines.
