Orah Eileen Primm

KNOWN AS EILEEN TO HER FAMILY & FRIENDS SHE WAS BORN FEBRUARY 7, 1922, IN ALIX, ARKANSAS. SHE GRADUATED FROM OZARK HIGH SCHOOL, OZARK, ARKANSAS CLASS of 1941. EILEEN WAS A RETIRED SECRETARY- BOOKKEEPER AND HAD LIVED AND WORKED IN SEVERAL CITIES INCLUDING HOUSTON, KANSAS CITY, TULSA, LITTLE ROCK, & FOR MANY YEARS IN HER FAVORITE CITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. AFTER GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL SHE SPENT TIME AT THE NYA CAMP IN MOUNTAINBURG, ARKANSAS, THEN LATER WORKED AS A NURSE'S AIDE IN PARIS, ARKANSAS AND THE STATE TUBERCULOSIS SANITORIUM, BOONEVILLE, ARKANSAS. DURING WW II, SHE WORKED AT THE THEN NEW PENTAGON BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C., AS SECRETARY TO A NAVY ADMIRAL. FROM THERE SHE JOINED THE U.S. Navy WAVES, AND SERVED DURING THE WAR AS A WAVE IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE; PENSACOLA, FLORIDA; MOBILE, ALABAMA; THE NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, CLARKSVILLE, ARKANSAS; AND NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. IT WAS WHILE STATIONED IN NEW ORLEANS THAT SHE GREW TO LOVE THE CITY AND SPENT MANY OF HER WORKING YEARS THERE. JUST BEFORE HER DISCHARGE FROM THE WAVES, SHE MARRIED THE LATE EDWARD DEMENT OF HOUSTON, TEXAS. HER MARRIAGE TO EDDIE ENDED IN DIVORCE AND SHE REMAINED SINGLE THE REST OF HER LIFE. EILEEN WAS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, AND WAS PROUD OF HER WARTIME SERVICE TO HER COUNTRY. WHEN YOUNGER, SHE LOVED TO DANCE AND WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED BALLROOM DANCER. SHE ALSO LOVED TO TRAVEL, AND AFTER HER RETIREMENT HAD TAKEN MANY BUS TOURS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND TO QUEBEC, CANADA. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS JIM AND MAGGIE PRIMM, AND BY BROTHERS ROGER PRIMM AND RAYMOND PRIMM. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 4 SISTERS: IMOGENE WIEDERKEHR & HUSBAND JOE OF INDEPENDENCE, MO; RUTH WASSON OF TULSA, OK; SHARON COFFEY & HUSBAND BILL OF RUSSELLVILLE, AR; AND MARILYN PRIMM OF RUSSELLBILLE, AR; A BROTHER GERALD (JERRY) PRIMM AND WIFE SANDY OF MULBERRY, AR; SISTER IN LAW VIRGINIA PRIMM OF LITTLE ROCK, AR; SIXTEEN NIECES AND NEPHEWS; & SEVERAL GREAT NIECES & NEPHEWS. NEPHEWS WILL BE SERVING AS PALLBEARERS. THE FUNERAL SERVICE, A CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE, IS FAMILY DIRECTED. MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO HOUSTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, C/O ALICE BROOKS, P.O. BOX 52, OZARK, AR 72949-0052.

Orah Eileen Primm

August 6, 2009