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In Memory Of Our Poets

Jessie Lee O'Gwynn (Totty) (1917-2009) - Class Of 1934

TOTTY, Jessie Lee (O'Gwynn) died in Tacoma, Washington on March 16, 2009. She was born in Montgomery on No­vember 14, 1917.  She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Na­than Thomas O'Gwynn. She graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in 1934.  In 1940, she and A. J. Totty, Jr. were the first couple to be married in the First Christian Church of Montgomery.  Jessie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her son, Abner J. Totty, III; and her brothers and sisters, Syra Callen, Jack O'Gwynn, Rob­ert O'Gwynn and Jean Bas­sett.  She is survived by her daughter, Syra Beth Puett; her grandchildren, Caryl (John) Dowd, Robert (Terri) Puett, and Geoffrey (Linda Robson) Puett; two great-grand­daughters, Juliana and Mar­iana Dowd; three nieces, in­cluding Mrs. Bennie McDaniel of Montgomery, and one nephew.
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Funeral Home: none
Publication Date: 04/01/2009