DONALD CHARLES PLUMMER

DONALD (DON) CHARLES PLUMMER, 74, of Youngstown, Florida died on Saturday, June 9, 2007, after having fought a long and courageous battle since 1996, with prostate cancer which metastasized to bone cancer. He was born April 17, 1933 in Iron Mountain, MI to parents Elsie M. (Anderson) Plummer and Allen E. Plummer. He leaves his beloved wife, Carolyn, after 52 years of marriage. Also left to mourn his passing are his beloved son, Allen Burke Plummer, his daughter Sandra (Plummer) Dixon-Stevens, granddaughters Harvest and Katie Dixon, his sisters Elaine (and Bill) Bjorkman of Kingsford, MI, Marjorie (and Richard) White of Stevens Point, WI, and brother Thomas A. Plummer (and Ruth) of Plainsfield, IN and many nieces and nephews. Don graduated in 1951 from Kingsford High School, Iron Mountain, Michigan. He loved all sports and was actively involved in baseball, football, hunting, fishing and trapping. Soon after graduation, he enlisted in the Air Force where he served as a B-29 gunner during the Korean War and was a B-52 G and H Bombing, Navigation and Terrain Avoidance technician and supervisor during the Vietnam War. After his twenty-three year career in the Air Force, he retired in 1974 and enrolled in the secondary education Earth Science
program at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan. He loved academia and graduated Summa Cum Laude in July, 1977 with a Michigan teaching certificate. Then, he and Carolyn moved to Panama City, FL, where Don obtained his Florida Teaching Certificate, teaching in Bay County for 19 years. Don was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Panama City. He was actively involved in support of his church, the National Rifle Association, American Legion and National Armed Services Association. He and Carolyn traveled extensively in their motor home after his retirement from Bay County public schools in 1997. His science teaching career resulted in numerous county, regional and state Science Fair winners with one of his students achieving the high honor of a prize in the International Engineering program. And other
students have become teachers, coaches, doctors, engineers, lawyers, pharmacologists and many other success stories. Our sincere thanks and appreciation go out to, Dr. Vickie Harrell, Dr. Hitt, Dr. Nichols, Dr. Reed and Dr. Mahmood, for their loving care, and to the many nurses attending him throughout his illness. Also, special thanks to the Covenant Hospice team. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Covenant Hospice, 107 West 19th Street, Panama City, FL 32405. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 16 at 10 a.m. in the Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Chaplain Dr. Floyd N. Wright officiating.

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