Sylvia Druise Cashwell was the daughter of Fanny Jane Honeycutt and her husband Daniel Alford Cashwell, Sr of Bladen county, North Carolina. She was the grandaughter of Wiley James Honeycutt and Mary Ellen Humphrey of Bladen/Robeson counties, NC. Her siblings were Daniel A Cashwell, Jr, Peggy O'Neil Ward, and Wilford Hudson Cashwell.
After their mother's death in 1929 Sylvia and her sister Peggy spent their high school years at Thomasville Baptist orphanage in Thomasville, NC. They both excelled in their studies and became school teachers.
Sylvia married lst Claud William Simpson who died in 1965. 2nd she married Cecil E Coleman.
"San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - July 13, 1993
Sylvia Druise Cashwell Simpson Coleman
SIMPSON-COLEMAN -- Sylvia, died July 10, 1993 at Scripps Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. A native of North Carolina, she was a 43 year resident of San Diego and taught in the San Diego School District at both Bayview Terrace and Alcott Elementary Schools.
Since 1986 she has tirelessly promoted a Jacaranda Festival and Walk through the Village Garden Club of La Jolla and worked toward having San Diego declared "The Jacaranda Capital" of the United States. She spearheaded the planting of Jacaranda trees in city parks and was working toward planting Jacaranda trees along all corridors leading into San Diego. The most recent planting was of 22 trees in Mission Bay Park north of the Hilton Hotel.
She is survived by her husband Cecil E Coleman, a sister and 2 brothers. Services will be held Wed. July 14th. at 10 a.m. at Pacific Beach Mortuary."
After their mother's death in 1929 Sylvia and her sister Peggy spent their high school years at Thomasville Baptist orphanage in Thomasville, NC. They both excelled in their studies and became school teachers.
Sylvia married lst Claud William Simpson who died in 1965. 2nd she married Cecil E Coleman.
"San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - July 13, 1993
Sylvia Druise Cashwell Simpson Coleman
SIMPSON-COLEMAN -- Sylvia, died July 10, 1993 at Scripps Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. A native of North Carolina, she was a 43 year resident of San Diego and taught in the San Diego School District at both Bayview Terrace and Alcott Elementary Schools.
Since 1986 she has tirelessly promoted a Jacaranda Festival and Walk through the Village Garden Club of La Jolla and worked toward having San Diego declared "The Jacaranda Capital" of the United States. She spearheaded the planting of Jacaranda trees in city parks and was working toward planting Jacaranda trees along all corridors leading into San Diego. The most recent planting was of 22 trees in Mission Bay Park north of the Hilton Hotel.
She is survived by her husband Cecil E Coleman, a sister and 2 brothers. Services will be held Wed. July 14th. at 10 a.m. at Pacific Beach Mortuary."
Sylvia Druise Cashwell was the daughter of Fanny Jane Honeycutt and her husband Daniel Alford Cashwell, Sr of Bladen county, North Carolina. She was the grandaughter of Wiley James Honeycutt and Mary Ellen Humphrey of Bladen/Robeson counties, NC. Her siblings were Daniel A Cashwell, Jr, Peggy O'Neil Ward, and Wilford Hudson Cashwell.
After their mother's death in 1929 Sylvia and her sister Peggy spent their high school years at Thomasville Baptist orphanage in Thomasville, NC. They both excelled in their studies and became school teachers.
Sylvia married lst Claud William Simpson who died in 1965. 2nd she married Cecil E Coleman.
"San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - July 13, 1993
Sylvia Druise Cashwell Simpson Coleman
SIMPSON-COLEMAN -- Sylvia, died July 10, 1993 at Scripps Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. A native of North Carolina, she was a 43 year resident of San Diego and taught in the San Diego School District at both Bayview Terrace and Alcott Elementary Schools.
Since 1986 she has tirelessly promoted a Jacaranda Festival and Walk through the Village Garden Club of La Jolla and worked toward having San Diego declared "The Jacaranda Capital" of the United States. She spearheaded the planting of Jacaranda trees in city parks and was working toward planting Jacaranda trees along all corridors leading into San Diego. The most recent planting was of 22 trees in Mission Bay Park north of the Hilton Hotel.
She is survived by her husband Cecil E Coleman, a sister and 2 brothers. Services will be held Wed. July 14th. at 10 a.m. at Pacific Beach Mortuary."
After their mother's death in 1929 Sylvia and her sister Peggy spent their high school years at Thomasville Baptist orphanage in Thomasville, NC. They both excelled in their studies and became school teachers.
Sylvia married lst Claud William Simpson who died in 1965. 2nd she married Cecil E Coleman.
"San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - July 13, 1993
Sylvia Druise Cashwell Simpson Coleman
SIMPSON-COLEMAN -- Sylvia, died July 10, 1993 at Scripps Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. A native of North Carolina, she was a 43 year resident of San Diego and taught in the San Diego School District at both Bayview Terrace and Alcott Elementary Schools.
Since 1986 she has tirelessly promoted a Jacaranda Festival and Walk through the Village Garden Club of La Jolla and worked toward having San Diego declared "The Jacaranda Capital" of the United States. She spearheaded the planting of Jacaranda trees in city parks and was working toward planting Jacaranda trees along all corridors leading into San Diego. The most recent planting was of 22 trees in Mission Bay Park north of the Hilton Hotel.
She is survived by her husband Cecil E Coleman, a sister and 2 brothers. Services will be held Wed. July 14th. at 10 a.m. at Pacific Beach Mortuary."
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