John C. Wells, Jr.
John C. Wells, Jr.
Obituary: JOHN C.WELLS, JR, (August 11, 1917 – March 2, 2004)
On March 2, 2004, JOHN C. WELLS, Jr., 86, of Georgetown, DE, died at Bayhealth Medical Center, Milford, DE. He was born in Jacksonville, FL, to John Calvin Wells, Sr. and Monetta Lee Wells, nee Stribling. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer and veteran. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy (Dotti) Longmire Wells (March 5, 1924 – September 5, 2001) and a granddaughter, Katie (Kathryn) Ann Woods. He is survived by two daughters, Patricia Wells Woods of Georgetown, DE, Lola Wells Woods and her husband Donald Woods of Baltimore, MD; and a granddaughter Sally (Sarah) Woods. John C. Wells, Jr., is also survived by his brother-in-law Wallace E. Longmire of Tucson, AZ, who also attended the funeral service.
The cremains of both John C. Wells Jr. and Dorothy L. Wells will be interred together, after the funeral of John C. Wells, Jr. This interment will be held privately.
Arrangements by Parsell Funeral Home, Dodd, Carey Chapel, Georgetown, DE.
The cremains of John C. Wells,Jr. are interred at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery at 26669 Patriots Way, Millsboro, DE, along with the cremains of his late wife.
John C. Wells, Jr., receiving citation for 50 years of Federal
government service from Jack Kemp, Secretary of HUD.
John Calvin Wells, Sr.
father of John C. Wells, Jr.
John C. Wells, Jr. was the son of John C. Wells, Sr. and Monetta Lee Stribling Wells. His maternal grandfather was "Christopher Columbus Thomas Alvarado Ebenezer Stribling". The father of Monetta Lee Stribling was commonly known as “Eb”. Eb Stribling was the postmaster of Clifton, TN for 29 years between 1877 and 1911. The Wayne County Citizen (newspaper) was published by Eb Stibling from 1872 to 1884. He served as a private in Company F, 12th Iowa Union Infantry during the Civil War.
As Eb served in Company F of the 12th Iowa Union Infantry in the war between the states, this means he fought for the North and the abolition of slavery. This historical fact is a point of pride in the Well family.
Patricia Stribling, sister of John C. Wells, Sr., was a well-respected school teacher in Lawrenceburg, TN. She was a strict disciplinarian. She considered herself a good Christian and, therefore, she was resistant the notion of Darwin's theory of evolution.
T. S. Stribling, Pulitzer prize winning author of The Store, was the uncle of John C. Wells, Jr. and brother of John C. Wells, Sr. Stribling also wrote The Responsibility of the Writer (1936).