Edna M. Dighton (Dillon), 70, a former U.S. Air Force nurse, writer, homemaker and avid golfer died Aug. 16 at Alive Hospice of Nashville, St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.
The cause was transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis, said her husband, Butler R. Dillon, Jr., U.S. Air Force (Ret.).
Mrs. Dillon was born in Boothbay Harbor, had lived all over the U.S., as well as London, England and Ramstein, Germany. For the last 20 years, she lived on Myra’s Farm west of Nashville near McEwen, Tenn.
Mrs. Dillon graduated as an RN from Central Maine General Hospital, Lewiston in 1958. She was also a 1977 graduate of Oklahoma City University with a BS in nursing education.
She had published several magazine articles, such as Raising Free Range Chickens, Pressure Cooking, Hunting Morel Mushrooms, Baking Kentucky Salt Rising Bread and Cooking Tennessee Pork BBQ. She was a gourmet cook, first-rate flower gardener, an avid golfer and a world-class grandmother.
She was the daughter of the late Theodore E. Dighton and the late Eithel M. Harmon (Dighton) (Pennington), of Boothbay Harbor.
Besides her husband of 42 years, she is survived by two daughters, LeeAnne Marie Dillon (Bielar) and husband Lt. Jon Bielar, U.S. Navy assigned to the USS Ronald Reagan, and Sheri Lynn Dillon (Coppersmith) and husband Lt. Col. Brian K. Coppersmith, U.S. Army assigned to the 101st ABN Division, Kirkuk, Iraq; three grandchildren, Dillon Nicolas Orr, Dillon Joseph Deacon Coppersmith and Neve Ravolet Deacon Coppersmith; and eight siblings, Dorothy M. Dighton (Murphy) of Warden, Wash., Robert P. Dighton of Boothbay, Alice L. Dighton (Fletcher) of Presque Isle, Ernest F. Dighton of Damariscotta, Ella L. Dighton (Kinney) of Mapleton, Earl D. Dighton of Wiscasset, David W. Pennington of Canton, and Patricia E. Pennington (Holmes) of Boothbay.
Memorial Service Sat., Aug. 19 at the Waverly United Methodist Church, Waverly, Tenn.
Memorials should be directed to Alive Hospice Inc., 1718 Patterson St., Nashville, TN 37203; The Humphreys County Library, 201 Pavo Ave., Waverly, TN 37185; or Waverly United Methodist Church, Building Fund, 115 West Main, Waverly, TN 37185.
