Ethel "Nummie" Terry Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Ethel Elizabeth Terry was born on February 15. 1931 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was the fifth of ten children from the union of the late Charles Terry and Georgia Murphy Terry. She and her siblings were raised in Homestead and Glen Hazel where they were a part of a closeknit community of big families. Nummie, as she was called by family and friends alike, was educated in the Pittsburgh Public School System and was a 1949 graduate of Taylor Allderdice School. In her youth, she and her family attended Second Baptist Church in Homestead. Nummie never married or had children of her own, but had a close relationship with her nieces and nephews. She was kind, generous, fun loving, friendly, and always fashionably dressed. She loved to golf and thoroughly enjoyed watching football. She was also a former Eastern Star. On March 12, 2014, Ethel Elizabeth Terry departed this life in Forbes Hospice. She is preceded in death by one sister, Charlie Mae, and brothers Robert and Gerald. She leaves to honor and cherish her memory siblings Esther Franklin, Georgiana Miles (Clarence), Saeed Terry, Geraldine Jones, Dorothy Lynch and Antoinette Terry, both of Washington D.C.; special friend, Nora Bell Morant; god-daughter Rhonda Woodson; best friend McInerney (Mackie) Woodson; and a host of nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, great great nieces and nephews, and other relatives and friends too numerous to mention.

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Ethel "Nummie" Terry

February 15, 1931 - March 12, 2014