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- [S106] The Mountain Press, 2 Jun 2013.
Upland Chronicles: Riverside Hotel has reached its final days
- [S112] Census, 1940.
Name: Mary E Whaley
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Civil District 11, Sevier, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original): White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Birthplace: Tennessee
Birth Year (Estimated): 1925
Last Place of Residence: Same House
District: 78-16
Family Number: 169
Sheet Number and Letter: 9A
Line Number: 8
Affiliate Publication Number: T627
Affiliate Film Number: 3933
Digital Folder Number: 005461375
Image Number: 00475
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Steve Whaley M 65 Tennessee
Wife Perla Whaley F 49 Tennessee
Son Ray Whaley M 30 Tennessee
Son Bruce Whaley M 21 Tennessee
Daughter Blanche Whaley F 21 Tennessee
Daughter Mary E Whaley F 15 Tennessee
- [S23] Atchley Funeral Home, (http://www.atchleyfuneralhome.com/), 1 Oct 2009.
Mary Evelyn ''Bo'' Trotter
February 20, 1925 - October 01, 2009
Birthplace: Sevier County, Tennessee
Resided In: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Visitation: October 06, 2009
Service: October 06, 2009
Cemetery: White Oak Flats Cemetery
Mary Evelyn “Bo” Trotter, the member of a pioneer Gatlinburg hotel family and a prominent Sevier County Realtor, died Thursday, October 1, 2009, at the age of 84.
She was the daughter of Steve and Pearl Whaley, who built the Riverside Hotel in the 1920s. The Whaley family operated the Riverside for five decades as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Gatlinburg became the tourist mecca that they are today.
When her husband, James T. “Big Jim” Trotter died in 1985, Mrs. Trotter went back to school and became a highly successful Realtor. She was a life-long member of the First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg. She loved the Tennessee Vols, fishing, and playing gin rummy with family and friends.
Mrs. Trotter is survived by her sister, Nancy B. Cooper of Gatlinburg; her sons Jim Trotter Jr. and his wife, Sharon, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Bob Trotter and his wife, Peggy, of Eagle, Colo.; her grandchildren, Shelley Trotter of Atlanta; Laura Trotter Ghiesling and her husband, Carl, of Gatlinburg; James Trotter III and his wife, Kelsey, of Golden, Colo. and John Gregory Trotter and his wife, Kerry, of Springfield, Missouri, and her great-grandchildren, Isabella and Carlton Ghiesling of Gatlinburg, and Savannah Trotter of Golden.
Funeral service 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg with Rev. Larry Burcham officiating. Graveside prayer and interment will follow in White Oak Flats Cemetery in Gatlinburg. The family will receive friends in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg from 1-2 p.m. Tuesday. Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville. (www.atchleyfuneralhome.com)
- [S106] The Mountain Press, 4 Oct 2009.
Gatlinburg business leader dies
Mary Evelyn “Bo” Trotter, the member of a pioneer Gatlinburg hotel family and a prominent Sevier County Realtor, died Thursday at the age of 84.
She was the daughter of Steve and Pearl Whaley, who built the Riverside Hotel in the 1920s, a decade before the coming of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Whaley family operated the Riverside for five decades as the park and Gatlinburg became the tourist mecca that it is today. Trotter’s brother, Austin “Dick” Whaley, was the first mayor of Gatlinburg when the town incorporated in 1945.
She and her husband, James T. “Big Jim” Trotter, and her brother, Bruce J. Whaley, developed the River Terrace motel across the Little Pigeon River from the Riverside in downtown Gatlinburg, beginning in 1958. The Trotters were active in state and national hotel association circles.
After Mr. Trotter’s death in 1985, she became a Realtor, a profession that she pursued with great success at Century 21 Realty in Gatlinburg. She didn’t like the word “retire,” but decided to “slow down” when she reached 80.
Trotter was a life-long member of the First Baptist Church of Gatlinburg. She was an avid fan of the Tennessee Vols, and she loved to play gin rummy with her friends and family. When she won, as she often did, she would announce with a laugh, “The big possum walks late.”
You can read her full obituary on this Web site.
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