Individual Details

Juanita Mae Terry

(September 18, 1923 - July 20, 1961)

"We (Juanita Terry and W. T. "Dick" Embry) met in 1947, at the Blue Anchor Cafe in San Angelo, Texas where she worked. I was working in the oil patch at that time in the San Angelo area. I told her the first night I saw her that I was going to marry her. We married in the summer of 1948 in San Angelo, and lived for a while in San Angelo, then in Santa Anna, Texas before moving back to my folk's home place near Abernathy to farm in 1955." (Interview with "Uncle Red" Embry by Judia and Ralph Terry, 9 October 1993, Embry farm near Abernathy, Texas.)

Juanita Embry's most recent Texas driver's license before her death gave her license number was 0109606. It listed her as being five foot, four inches tall, weighing 114 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Juanita Mae (Terry) Embry served in the U. S. Armed Forces from October 12, 1943 through September 10, 1945. Her Social Security Number was 455-30-4249. She died of "generalized abdominal carcinomatosis, from an undetermined source, pancreas suggested." (Information from the Certificate of Death of Juanita Mae Embry, Houston, Harris County, Texas, Registrar's file No. 4664.)

Neither Juanita Mae Embry nor W. T. Embry had any children by either of their marriages.

Events

BirthSeptember 18, 1923near DeLeon, Comanche County, Texas
MarriageJuly, 1948San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas - Wilson Turner "Dick" "Red" Embry
DeathJuly 20, 1961Houston, Harris County, Texas
MarriageHutchinson, Reno County, Kansas - Lester Lyle "Mac" McAllister
DivorceLester Lyle "Mac" McAllister
BurialAbernathy Cemetery, Hale County, Texas

Families

SpouseLester Lyle "Mac" McAllister ( - )
SpouseWilson Turner "Dick" "Red" Embry (1920 - 2000)
FatherOscar Hill Terry Sr. (1882 - 1954)
MotherDella Griffith (1892 - 1968)
SiblingOscar Hill "Top" Terry Jr. (1908 - 1974)
SiblingRebecca Alice "Sis" Terry (1910 - 1957)
SiblingAutrey Alvis "Red" Terry Sr. (1913 - 1950)
SiblingGrace Lee "Gracie" Terry (1915 - 1999)
SiblingJohn Franklin Terry (1918 - 1974)
SiblingBernard Cecil Terry (1921 - 1923)
SiblingMary Frances Terry (1925 - 1925)
SiblingEmmett Gwendolen Terry (1927 - 2012)
SiblingDella Fontella Terry (1931 - 2015)
SiblingBonnie Bea Terry (1932 - 2018)