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Juanita M. Capson, 68, of Garden Grove, Calif., died
Tuesday, Feb 27, 1990, at a Long Beach, Calif., hospital of
natural causes. Funeral services will be held at
11 a.m.
Saturday, March 3, at the
Middleton United Methodist Church. The Rev. H. Lee Baker will
officiate. Interment will follow at the Middleton Cemetery
under the direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel, Caldwell.
Mrs. Capson was born Oct. 4, 1921, at Los Molinas,
Calif., to Doran and Luella Painter Corn. She came to Idaho
as a child and attended schools in the Marble Front community,
graduating from Middleton High School. She attended Eastern
Oregon College of Education. She joined the U.S. Army in
1942, serving with the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during
World War II. She was honorably discharged in 1943. After
her discharge from the service, Mrs. Capson taught elementary
school at Kamiah, Idaho, for two years. She married Wayne
Capson at Long Beach.
During the time she lived in Long Beach, Mrs. Capson had
been active in private tutoring. She was the longest
surviving quadriplegic veteran in the nation at the time of
her death. She and her husband Wayne were very active members
of the
PVA
(Paralyzed Veterans of America). They had both received the
“Speedy Award,” the highest award given by that organization
for outstanding service. Together they had been the guests of
six different presidents at the White House. They had been
invited to attend the launchings of spacecraft at Cape
Canavaral on several different occasions and had been the
guests of the Governor of Hawaii. As members of the PVA,
Juanita and Wayne not only served as counselors for
handicapped veterans, but they were instrumental in
eliminating barriers to public buildings that exist to
handicapped people throughout the
United States.
Juanita opened their home to physicians visiting from all over
the world as a model for handicapped living. She was an
accomplished artist whose hobbies included investing in the
stock market and traveling.
Survivors include a sister and brother-in-law, Sandra and
Bill Sloviaczek of Middleton; four brothers and
sisters-in-law, Dean and Betty Corn of Walla Walla, Wash.,
Dale and Kean Corn of Enumclaw, Wash., Roger and Cheryl Corn
of Walla Walla and Jerry and Kathy Corn of Baker, Ore.; a
sister-in-law, Lorraine Corn of Denver, Colo.; her
mother-in-law, Gladys Capson of Wyoming; 17 nieces and
nephews; and 13 great-nieces and nephews.
Her family suggests memorials be made in her name to
the Penny Pines reforestation project of the U.S. Forest
Service, or to the Paralyzed Veterans of America in care of
the Dakan Funeral Chapel, P.O. Box 1386, Caldwell, Idaho
83606. |
