FOLEY — Foley lost a citizen who helped to shape the city last week with the passing of Wyline Ebert.

When the longtime 86-year-old Foley resident died on Jan. 28, she left behind quite a legacy that includes helping to found the Foley Performing Arts Association, over which she both presided in several tenures and served as a member of the Board of Directors.

“We are so appreciative of all her efforts, as well as all of the people who founded the Association with her,” Foley Performing Arts Association Director Bonnie Blaylock said in an interview.

But Ebert’s legacy doesn’t end there. She was also involved in education, serving as a lifetime member of the Alabama Parent-Teacher Association. Ebert also supported the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History’s Field StudyProgram.

Ebert’s support of education also extended beyond the nation’s borders by serving as Alabama Foreign Exchange district representative and mentoring numerous foreign-exchange students throughout the years.

Ebert’s mark within the Forward City’s borders include spearheading Foley Middle School’s Home Economics Program in the 1980s.

That mark wasn’t limited to the arts and education, though. Ebert’s civic efforts included serving on the Foley Housing Board.

“She was everything,” said Impact 100 Baldwin County Board Member Pud Nelson, who also serves as secretary of South Baldwin Education Foundation.

“She was a very dedicated person to her community,” added lifelong friend Arthur Holk. “She will be sadly missed.”

The former civic leader explained that Ebert was always a problem solver, as exemplified in by her willingness to get certified to drive a station wagon as school bus in her native Soldier Creek, which enabled her and fellow students to make it from the Josephine community to Foley High School.

“She wasn’t but 15 years old,” Holk said. “She’d take them back and fort to Foley High School every day.”

Ebert was preceded in death by husband Lt. Commander Thomas Provost III, who died in 1951 while serving as a Navy test pilot. Then then mother of three girls and expectant mother of son, Tom, would go on to marry Charles Ebert Jr. in 1955 and have two children with him. She was also preceded in death by Charles, as well as mother, Frances Wyline Jones Scott; father, Frederick Myers Scott; daughter, Louise Provost Bouzan; and brothers, Fred J. Scott and John C. Scott.

Ebert is survived by her daughter, Susan Provost (Joe) Endry of Gulf Breeze, Fla.; daughter, Wyline Provost (John) Bauman of Laguna Niquel, Calif.; son, Tom (Bambi) Provost of Pensacola Beach, Fla.; daughter, Amy Ebert (Lee) Burleson of Atlanta, Ga.; and son, Charles J. (Cale) Ebert III of Foley; son-in-law, Joseph Bouzan; sister, Mary “Babi” Scott Smith; brother, Russell F. Scott; 13 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorial contributions in the name of Wyline Scott Ebert to the Louise Bouzan Scholarship Fund, South Baldwin Education Foundation, P.O. Box 1117, Foley, AL 36536; the Foley Performing Arts Association, 116 W Laurel Avenue, Foley, AL 36535; or the organization of your choice.

Visitation and funeral were held for Ebert on Friday, Feb. 1, at Pine Rest Funeral Home, followed by burial in Pine Rest Memorial Park.