The family and friends enjoyed that beach cottage for years. She drew the plans, selected a builder and oversaw the construction. After treatment and recovery, she decided to build a beach cottage on a small building lot in Panama City Beach, Florida. but had to drop out because of a breast cancer diagnosis. She had only one course to take to get her R.N. She was also an award-winning impressionist oil painter.Īfter all her children were in college, she decided to be a nurse and enrolled in the Polk College nursing program. She was known for her ability to cook and entertain large (or small) dinner parties. She even made two of her daughters’ wedding dresses. They drew lots of attention when they went anywhere. The family remember well how she made all their dress clothes during their formative years. Mary’s greatest joy was her children, whom she adored her whole life. From there, the family moved to Winter Haven, Florida, where Dr Ryon and his brother, a pediatrician, opened the Ryon Pediatric Clinic. Their youngest child, Sarah, was born in Chapel Hill. After returning home, they lived in Asheville, North Carolina (Dr Ryon’s hometown) for eight years, after which they moved (with four children) to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for two years while Dr Ryon earned his master’s degree in pediatric dentistry. Their eldest child, Rebecca, was born there in March 1955. Mary and Gene remained married for sixty-eight years. They married on January 9, 1954, just before he transferred from Tyndall AFB to USAF Air Force Hospital Wimpole Park, near Cambridge, England. She met her future husband, Dr William Eugene Ryon, III, in Panama City, Florida. Mary was a proud member of Kappa Delta Sorority at Florida State, as was her mother. Mary graduated from Florida State University in 1952 with a degree in Home Economics, a degree she utilized all her life. Mary grew up in Tallahassee, except for a few years when the family moved to Key West, circa 1936, while the State of Florida employed Mr West to design auto bridges from Flagler’s railroad bridges which were destroyed by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Mary was born on September 5, 1931, in Quincy, Florida and was the daughter of the late Arthur Lowell West and Janet Elizabeth MacGowan West of Tallahassee, Florida. Mary Jacqueline West Ryon, 90, passed away after a long fight with dementia on September 3, 2022, at her home at The Village in Gainesville, Florida.
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