seventy-two, dies. Rites Set
Mrs. J. Truman, seventy-two, wife of the former owner of Radio Station WLAC, died in Vanderbilt Hospital yesterday. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Otter Creek Church of Christ, Granny White Pike and Otter Creek Road, conducted by Carroll Ellis and Batsell Barrett Baxter. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park. The body is at Roesch Patton Funeral Home.
Mrs. Ward, of Brentwood, was the former Mary Muncie. She was a native of Edmonton, KY, daughter of Judge James Calvin Muncie, a member of the Kentucky legislature and a Metcalf County banker and Ms. Eliza Crabtree Muncie. After her father’s death, she and her mother moved to Nashville, where Mrs. Ward attended the old Ward-Belmont College. On November 26, 1923, she was married to Truman Ward, who is a member of the Metro Electric Power Board and of the boards of numerous firms and civic organizations.
Mrs. Ward was active in cultural, civic and church circles, and was a member of the Centennial Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Ladies Hermitage Association, and the Tennessee Botanical Gardens and Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood. She had been a member of Otter Creek Church of Christ for more than twenty years.
One of Mrs. Ward’s brothers, Dr. James Ernest Muncie, graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and practiced surgery in Bay Shore, Long Island, until his death in 1968. Her other brother, Dr. Maurice Muncie, a dentist, died in 1932. Survivors, in addition to her husband, include a son, James Muncie Ward, and two granddaughters, Mary Truman Ward and Jane Allen Ward. The family requested that contributions be made to the Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, or the American Red Cross in lieu of flowers.