John Bolling Degges
December 13, 1935 ~ July 29, 2020
John Bolling Degges died July 29, 2020, a victim of the COVID-19 Pandemic. He was born December 13, 1935, in Tampa, Florida to Francis Tucker Degges and Margaret McIlwaine Degges. Married Patricia Harley Ward July 14, 1972, in Boise, Idaho. He served thirteen years as a Presbyterian minister and then worked thirty-one years for National/Fairchild Semiconductor. Survived by his children Katherine Ward, Chester C. Ward, and Virginia B. Ward, along with nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Ricki, and his brothers, Francis M. Degges, William C. Degges, Meade F. Degges, Gifford B. Degges, and Thomas C. Degges. The family wishes to thank Noemi of Summit Home Health and all the staff at Capitol Hill Senior Living for their tender care in this terrible time. A lifetime of thank-yous goes out to the staff on Amtrak Passenger trains who introduced Johnny to Ricki and assisted Johnny with many happy hours of train travel over the years.
Services will be held on-line though St. John’s Lutheran Church on August 7, 2020 at 10:00 am. (The link is available upon request from the family). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 1350 E. 500 South. Services are entrusted to Starks Funeral Parlor. Please share your memories and photos with the family at www.starksfuneral.com.
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Excerpt from Salt Lake Tribune https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/08/04/utahs-new-covid-cases/
Sunday marked the deadliest week in Utah since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, with 37 deaths in a seven-day span, breaking last week’s record of 32.
John B. Degges, who died July 29 after contracting COVID-19, was one of those patients. The 84-year-old was a resident of Capitol Hill Care Center at 76 S. 500 East in Salt Lake City, who contracted the virus there, said his granddaughter, Jackie Morgan.
Posted by Deggesty on Monday, June 8, 2020 8:13 PM
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Johnny, how do you pronounce your last name? …
How to pronounce it? As one syllable, rhyming with a favorite breakfast food of many. The “ty” on the end is the abbreviation of “the Younger” which was a distinction certain friends in college gave me; the common address they used was simply “Younger.” My brother was known to them as “Kindly”–short for “Kindly Old Uncle Tommy Degges,” and he was known as “Kindly.” The proper abbreviation of my name “t/y.”
When my immigrant ancestor came to Virginia in 1675, there was no “s” at the end; some time in the first third of the 19th century, the “s” was added; I know of no explanation. My wife’s comment about the name was, “If you hear it, you cannot spell it, and if you read it, you cannot pronounce it.”
Geographically you are perfectly correct: what is the current heir presumptive [note, speaking of true gaffes, the corrected term given below – he is indeed the ‘heir apparent’ and the difference is significant!] to the English throne titled?
It’s ethnically correct you were not. (Now I am channelling one of my favorite characters from childhood, Jones the Steam… Vince, you can be Mr. Dinwiddy…)
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