For More Info...Sandra H. and Jim Faria, and Mary and Henry Hutto

Tree commissioned by Dr. Sandra and Mr. Jim Faria to commemorate their family that included her parents, Mary and Henry Hutto.

Dr. Sandra Hutto Faria

Associate Professor of Nursing at Troy State University Dothan, 1979-1994, was the only child of Mary and Henry Hutto of Dothan, Alabama.  She was born in 1946.  She graduated from Dothan High School in 1965 and completed nursing school at University Hospital of School of Nursing in Birmingham, Alabama (now UAB) in 1968.  She married US Army Sgt. William Franklin Holland in December 1969, and they lived in Vicenza, Italy, for a year.  Sgt. Holland saw service in Vietnam, but in 1972 was killed in active duty at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Faria returned to Birmingham, received her BSN and MSN from UAB, and taught at Samford University until 1979, when she married James Marco Faria and relocated to Dothan, Alabama.  During her tenure at TSUD (1979-1994), Faria competed her Doctor of Science in Nursing at UAB and took a position as Associate Professor of Nursing at Florida State University, 1994-2007.  Mr. Faria died in 2002, Dr. Faria retired in 2007 and returned to Dothan to care for her mother who died in 2014.

James Marco Faria (May 4, 1924 – January 5, 2002)

Husband of TSUD Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Sandra Hutto Faria, Mr. Faria was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the son of Antonio and Efigenia Faria.  He served in the US Army Air Corp in World War 2, then graduated from Southeastern Massachusetts University with a BS in Textile Engineering.
Faria worked for DuPont and Montsanto corporations in North Carolina before moving to Birmingham.  He married Sandra Hutto Faria in 1979, and they moved to Dothan where she worked at Troy State University Dothan and he worked as an independent salesman of gift items and linens to department stores until retiring in 1994.  The then moved to Tallahassee, Florida, where she taught nursing at Florida State University.  Faria died in a Tallahassee hospital after an extended illness, and is interred at memory Hill Cemetery in Dothan, Alabama.

Mary Clark Hutto (February 18, 1927 – August 12, 2014)

Mother of Dr. Sandra Hutto Faria, Associate Professor of Nursing at Troy State University Dothan (1979-1994).  Mrs. Hutto was born in Eufaula, Alabama, lived in Henry County until she married Henry Hutto in 1944 and moved to Dothan, Alabama, in 1951.
Mrs. Hutto worked as a private duty nurse and as an emergency room nurse at Southeast Alabama Medical center, ca. 1961-1986, when she retired.  After retirement, she and husband Henry Hutto traveled frequently between Dothan and the North Carolina mountains.  Herny Hutto died in 2001, and when she died in 2014, Mary Hutto resided at Wesley Manor in Dothan.  She is interred at Memory Hill Cemetery in Dothan.

Henry Hutto (May 5, 1920 – January 14, 2001)

Herny Hutto was the father of Dr. Sandra Hutto Faria, an associate professor of Nursing at Troy State University Dothan (1979-1994). Hutto was born in Henry County, Alabama, and served in the US Army Air Corps during World War 2.  He and Mary (Clark) Hutto married in 1944 then moved to Dothan, Alabama, in 1951, where he was a wood worker King’s Furniture for thirty years.  After retiring in 1984, he and Mrs. Hutto traveled regularly between Dothan and the mountains of North Carolina.  Mr. Hutto also served as a deacon of Calvary Baptist Church for over twenty-five years.
Hutto died at home after an extended illness, and is interred at Memory Hill Cemetery in Dothan.

LIVE OAK

Encompasses a number of closely related species of oak tree, though the true Live Oak is Quercus viginiana L.  Native to the coastal plain of the Deep South, the Live Oak can grow to be 50 feet tall with a trunk diameter from 36 to 70 inches.  The bark has deep, dark longitudinal furrows, and both bark and twigs darken with age.  Live Oak is often seen with untrimmed branches that dip close to the ground and curve upwards.  Because this species is salt-tolerant, it grows most iconically along the southern coasts, draped in Spanish Moss.  Trimmed, as they are on the Troy University Dothan Campus, they are excellent shade trees.  [Source:  Guy Nesom, “Live Oak,” USDA / NRCS Plant Guide, http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_quvi.pdf (accessed August 17, 2015).]

The “For More Info” Project

The “For More Info” Project is a joint venture of The Wiregrass Archives and the Troy University Libraries funded in part by a generous grant from the Historic Chattahoochee Commission Seed Grant Program. Begun in 2015, “For More Info” provides a place to find biographical information and images of the people honored in the Memorial Tree Program established by the Dothan Beautification Board in 1991 and continued at Troy University Dothan Campus.
“For More Info” also provides organizational histories and biographical sketches concerning named buildings, rooms, and other facilities on campus.