Martha "Tootsie" Smallwood Milligan died at the age of 101 at Asbury Health Care Center in Maryville, Tennessee on August 11, 2014.
She was born in Chattanooga, on Jan. 13, 1913, the eldest child of Lemuel Clayton (L.C.) and Elizabeth Smallwood. As a young girl, she attended Bright School and Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga and later graduated from Marjorie Webster College in Washington D.C. The friendships she had and experiences she enjoyed were her fondest memories in her later years.
Her journey took her from Chattanooga, to Bellbuckle, Tn., to Rome, Ga., to Augusta, Ga., and back to Chattanooga in 1956, where her husband Harry C. Milligan was head football coach and math teacher at McCallie School. What he did in guiding and influencing young men, she did the same for young women.
She owned and directed a summer camp for girls in Rome, and in 1961 was director of Hidden Valley Camp for Girls in Apison, Tn. She retired in 1978 from the admissions office at UTC. Her church was always important to her and had been an active member of Central Presbyterian Church.
After the death of her husband she moved to Lookout Mountain, where she became an Episcopalian joining the Church of the Good Shepherd. She was also a proud and active member of the Lafayette chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of Confederacy.
In 1992, she moved to Maryville, to be near her family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, L.C. and Elizabeth Smallwood, her brother, Clayton, and husband, Harry Chapman Milligan.
She is survived by two sisters, Collette Grady Mynatt and Mary Elizabeth Milligan, son, David S. Milligan and Jane, daughter, Beth Milligan Dicus and Lawrence, grandchildren, Katie Milligan Woolington, David S. Milligan, Jr., Alice Milligan Prettyman, Ashley Dicus Baxter, Rebecca Dicus Roeber, and 19 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Maryville, Tn., on Saturday, Aug. 16, at 11 a.m.
Arrangements are by McCammon-Ammons-Click Funeral Home, 982-6812, mccammonammonsclick.com.