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Mrs. Wyss was the grand niece of James Mills Thobum, the first Methodist Bishop of India, and of his sister, Isabella, once characterized by Time magazine as “one of the greatest woman missionaries of all time.” The Isabella Thoburn College of the University of Lucknow, named in her honor, is the first woman’s college in Asia. She is memorialized by a statue in the Washington Cathedral.
The Wysses were married in Oklahoma City, Nov. 8, 1930. She and her husband graduated from Oklahoma A&M, now OSU, in 1931. Mrs. Wyss was a member of Pi Beta Phi college sorority for more than 60 years.
Prior to her husband’s call to Army duty before World War II, she, with her husband and children, lived in a number of places in Oklahoma and Arkansas. During the years of her husband’s absence in the ETO, she and their two daughters lived in Santa Fe, N.M. Her husband’s first post-war assignment was to then Camp Lee, Va. There she was commended by the commanding general for the establishment of the post’s first Girl Scout troop and the founding of a thrift shop. Proceeds from the thrift shop sale of donated items were used for charitable purposes providing assistance to hardship cases among enlisted personnel.
Mrs. Wyss accompanied her husband on assignments to Germany, Maxwell AFB in Alabama, the Pentagon, Philadelphia, Schenectady, N.Y. and again to Fort Lee. She served as a Gray Lady in several military hospitals including the Navy Hospital in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Wyss was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Mary Eleanor Thobum, and a grandson, Richard Arnold Markham.
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