TN SJR0935

Memorial resolution honoring Anna Armstrong Coile Durham of Gallatin, a Knoxville native and Vanderbilt University graduate who graduated first in her class from the Collegiate School for Girls in Richmond, Virginia

Co-founded the Sumner County Mental Health Services Center and served as its first board chair for decades, expanding mental health care access in the community

Studied healing practices at the Estuary in Nashville and was a lifelong student of philosophy and metaphysics

Served as unofficial editor and proofreader for her husband Walter Durham, who authored 24 books on local history and served as Tennessee State Historian

Survived by four children, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren; was a lifelong member of Gallatin's First United Methodist Church