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®P®imm®i'TO*MSMRS* T. D. WELLS* 1 ’ • • • ■A Navy mother serving on thehome front in her second world : war 15 Mrs. T. D. Wells, 351 La-mar Ave., long identified with . civic, cultural and religions interests in Paris.Her day is long enough to em-)) brace work selling War Bonds, working with the American Bed Cross, and, once each week —* Wednesday morning—she teaches an) inter-denominational Bible class at Pirst Methodist Church.v As chairman of Volunteer Special Service in the American Bed lt;Cross, which is all work done by women/ she is in charge of.the ’ programs for: nurses aides, the Gray Ladies, the canteen, the motor corps and the staff assistants.Mra. Wells herself is a# Baptist who also is a member of the Navy Mother’s Club, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and is a former member of the Lotus Club.J2er eldest son, Lt. T. D. Wells,is serving America on shore dutywith the United States Navy. Her •daughter, Edith Wells, works at the Sanitarium of Paris. Her other son, William Simmons Wells, died some years ago as the result nf an automobile accident whileen route from Texarkana to Paris.A Democrat, Mrs, Wells served the City , of Paris six years as City Secretary. She taught school eight years in Paris before her mar-riage.She was born at Blossom, but moved to Paris when she was but a month old. Hence she has never known any home but Pavi5 since her birth Jan. 6, 1883. She was educated in high school, in normal colleges held at Mary Connor College in Paris.She is the daughter of late William Albert Simmons and Mrs. Simmons, who was Eetta Moore, She was married June 10, 1908, to Thomas David Wells, at the Church of the Holy Cross, Episcopal, in Paris.For a hobby, Mrs. Wells has her war work. It goes back to the last war, when she was chairman of the woman’s campaign to promote sale of thrift stamps. She was Liberty Bond chairman for women of the city, and was one of the speakers used in that war to promote the sale of bonds.In this war, Mrs. Wells again is taking the lead in the sale of War Bonds.“Our women will come through in this war just as the}* did in the last,” she says, proudly. She knows her job as chairman is not a one-person undertaking, and unhesitatingly gives much credit to Miss Lois Mayer and ward captains and block leaders for the success of the bond-selling campaign.Mrs. Wells has been interested all her life in working with youngpeople. This interest found an outlet at the First Baptist Church* where she worked for years in the primary department, i Today she lives with her two sisters, Emma Simmons and Mary Simmons, and her daughter, Edith Wells, keeping continually busy holding up her end of the burden on the home front while her son and other mothers’ sons carry on at sea and elsewhere.It can be said in all truth that Nina Simmons Wells has been among Paris5 leading citizens, male or female, since the turn of the century.
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Paris News
Paris, Texas, US
Tue, Jun 27, 1944
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