Tallapoosa County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mary Fannie "Fan" Dillard
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Jody Dillard okielady@worldnet.att.net May 2003


May 29th Skagit Valley Herald in Mt. Vernon, WA. (Written by her niece, Linda Middlebrooks.)

  
  Mary Fannie "Fan" Dillard was born near Goodwater, Alabama on March 9, 1913 the first of six children 
born to Henrietta Phillips Dillard and Daniel Dougal Dillard. The family moved West when Mary was three 
months old and made their home in Concrete, WA where her father was the first mayor and owned the 
Baker River Lumber Company. She was raised and schooled at Concrete and graduated from Concrete High 
School in 1932. That same year both parents died leaving Mary to rear her five younger siblings during
 the depression. When the youngest was ready for college, the family moved to Seattle where they all 
had a chance for a college education.

      Upon receiving her degree from the University of Washington in 1942 with graduate studies in 
Sociology and Anthropology, she entered the University of Washington Graduate School program in 
Social work for a year. She took a job as a Social Worker for King Co. Welfare in the Seattle area. 
Feeling this was not the job for her, she enrolled at Prairie Bible Institute ,Three Hills, 
Alberta, Canada. When graduated, she became a Missionary. Through Oriental Boat Mission she 
lived on a boat in Canton, China and ministered there until expelled by the Communist Revolution 
in 1949. After the war she moved her mission work to Japan where she was a missionary for 30 years.

    She was a resident of the Wenatchee area since 1981. Mary attended the First Baptist Church 
in Wenatchee. She received support from the Community Bible Church in Concrete, WA.

    Mary's brother Cecil (Joyce) Dillard lives in Mount Vernon. She has numerous nieces and nephews. 
She was preceded in death by two brothers, John and Dan Dillard, one sister, Lillie Brown and 
sister June Wadsworth died four days after Mary's death.

    Memorials may be sent to the First Baptist Church, 1301 Maple Street, Wenatchee, WA 98801, or 
the Concrete Community Bible Church in Concrete, WA 98237.

  There will be a memorial service for Mary in Wenatchee on June 14, 2003 at the First Baptist 
Church at 1:00 P.M. 
"Do not go where the path may lead, 
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.".... Ralph Waldo Emerson

Additional Comments:

**Mary Fan Dillard was the grand daughter of Mary Baker and Thomas Milton Dillard of Tallapoosa Co. 
Her mother, Henrietta Phillips was the daughter of James and Fannie Swift Phillips of Tallapoosa Co. AL.