Individual Details

1940 Census. San Antonio, Bexar Co, TX, Hh 298
705 Partoria Ave- E. Mulberry St
Edwin J. Montgomery, 27, b. AZ, lived in Tucson, Pima Co, AZ in 1935, Lieutenant, Army
Dorothy, wife, 25, b. IN, lived in Hammond, Lake Co, IN in 1935
Edwin J. Jr., son, 2, b. AZ
Dorothy, dau, 11 months, b. AZ

1948 City Directory. Tucson, Arizona
Montgomery, Edwin J. (Dorothy). Pres, So Ariz Airlines. Home, 1004 N. 6th Av

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA) - Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Dorothy Ruth (Scott) Montgomery August 22, 1914- June24, 2011 Colorado Springs, Colorado- Dorothy Ruth (Scott) Montgomery passed away quietly the evening of June 24, 2011 after a brief illness. Dottie, as she was known, was born August 22, 1914, in Fairmount, Indiana, the daughter of Merle Luthur Scott and Georganna (Davis) Scott. On July 22, 1936, she married Edwin Jones Montgomery, Sr. of Tucson, Arizona, whom she met when both were students at the University of Arizona. She was preceded in Death by her parents, husband, a daughter, Bethany Scott Montgomery, and a sister, Sarah Kathleen Foster. She is survived by her son, Edwin Jr., two daughters, Dorothy Joan Parker and Mary Anna Soifer, a sister, Barbara Joan Cox, thirteen grandchildren, twenty-two great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. A gifted writer and speaker, Dottie helped her husband found the first commercial helicopter service in the United States (Arizona Helicopter Service) in 1946 by traveling around the southwest and speaking at service clubs, Chambers of Commerce, city councils and the like to advertise the capabilities of that new means of transportation. She represented her husband again in March of this year when he was inducted posthumously into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame as a helicopter pioneer. There will be a Memorial Service for her at Swan Law Funeral Home in Colorado Springs at 4:00 p.m., on Friday, July 1, 2011, officiated by Father Donald Armstrong , Rector of St. George's Anglican Church where she was a member. Her ashes will be interred with her husband's at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Columbus, Georgia, at a later date. In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to support the Alzheimer's Association of Colorado, 455 Sherman Street, Suite 500, Denver, Colorado 80203 in her memory.

Birth	22 Aug 1914	Grant County, Indiana
Marriage	22 Jul 1936	Edwin Jones Montgomery
Death	24 Jun 2011	Monument, El Paso County, Colorado

Spouse	Edwin Jones Montgomery (1912 - 1990)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Bethany Scott Montgomery (1953 - 1969)

Father	Merle Luther Scott (1891 - 1948)
Mother	Georganna Davis (1891 - 1980)