Extracted from Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL)
Col. Terrell is now employed at Eglin in civil service in the manpower and organization office. He retired on June 30, 1960. His last active duty station was at the Pentagon, where he served for 6 years.
The family has lived in Tokyo, Japan, and had a wartime tour at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Col. Terrell probably has the distinction of being one of the very earliest pioneer military occupants of this area, being sent here in 1937 as part of a weather squadron detached from Maxwell Field, Alabama. The group lived in a tent in what was then practically barren wilderness.
The Terrells met when he was stationed at Maxwell and were married in 1942 in Mississippi, his native state. They are the parents of three children. Lee, Jr., 24, served 4 years in the Air Force in Security Service and attended college for 2 years, at Pensacola Junior College and the University of Maryland. He is now working for a bio-research company in Falls Church, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.
Daughter Joan, Mrs. John Schade, also lives in Falls Church, where she is bookkeeper for an interior decorating company. The youngest child is Roslyn, 17, who graduate from Choctawhatchee High School in June.
Mrs. Terrell finds time for many activities besides the Retired Officers Wives Club. One of her favorite loves is helping with the decorations and planning at the Hurlburt Officers Club, and she is frequently called on to help when special parties are given. She is active in the Fort Walton Beach Hospital Auxiliary, and the American Legion Auxiliary. She counts sewing and cooking as her principal hobbies.
Thursday, July 21, 1966