Laura Hime Deger

LAURA HIME DEGER Laura Hime Deger of Palm Beach Gardens passed away last Sunday evening, April 6, 2003 at the Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Florida as a result of respiratory arrest. Mrs. Deger was born in Macon, Georgia in 1923. Her family moved to West Palm Beach in 1925 during the "Boom". She graduated from Palm Beach High School in 1941. While in high school she learned to fly and obtained her pilots license. At the time, she was one of the youngest women pilots in the State of Florida. With the advent of World War II, her flying days ended. She attended Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia until it was converted into a wartime military training center. She transferred to DePauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana until it, also was taken over by the military. Moving then to Chicago, she graduated from Katharine Gibbs. On St. Valentines Day 1946, in the middle of a Chicago blizzard, she married Clarence I. Deger, of Middletown, Ohio. In 1947 she returned to the Palm Beaches and raised her family. She was a past president of the Junior League of the Palm Beaches. It was during her Presidency that the Palm Beach County Chapter obtained its national charter. She was also a member of the PEO Sisterhood. Mrs. Deger was the daughter of the late Roy and Hazel Hime. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Clarence, five children, David , Anna , John , Jean and Jane , five grandchildren, two step- grandchildren, a sister Hazel Hime Kohl and two nephews. Funeral Services will be private for the family. Contributions may be made in her memory to the charity of choice. QUATTLEBAUM FUNERAL HOME Family Owned and Operated www.Quattlebaum.org