Margaret
Margaret Cravey
d. March 14, 2009
Margaret McCarter Cravey, 89, died March 14, 2009, just as bluebells begin to emerge. Born in Lawrenceville, IL, Jan 28, 1920, to Harry and Altha Parker McCarter, she valued strong family ties, cooperation, equality, justice, and forgiveness. Her life was governed by the Golden Rule.
When WWII brought GI’s to George Field, Margaret met Gerald T. Cravey, a handsome soldier from Tift Co, GA. They married June 12, 1943. While Gerald served with the US Air Corps in the China-Burma-India Theater, she moved to Pittsburg PA, where she applied her aptitude for math at the Carnegie Institute testing metal strengths.
Margaret was a natural educator. She read to her children as infants. She encouraged curiosity & persistence. She knew the importance of nature and enjoyed tramping wild areas to observe birds and wildflowers. With her guidance the family created exhibitions of seashells, geodes, fossils, arrowheads, toads and turtles. She enjoyed gardening and preserving what she and Jerry produced. Her family loved her vegetable soup, fresh rye bread, homemade noodles and pies, lemon meringue being a specialty.
She is survived by daughters Georgia Ann (Indianapolis, IN) and Altha Jane (Chapel Hill, NC) and sister-in-law Valeria Smith (Inaha, GA).
Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, March 20, 2009 in The Inaha Baptist Church Cemetery in Turner Co., GA. The family will receive friends Thursday evening from six until eight at Perry Funeral Chapel, Ashburn, GA.
When WWII brought GI’s to George Field, Margaret met Gerald T. Cravey, a handsome soldier from Tift Co, GA. They married June 12, 1943. While Gerald served with the US Air Corps in the China-Burma-India Theater, she moved to Pittsburg PA, where she applied her aptitude for math at the Carnegie Institute testing metal strengths.
Margaret was a natural educator. She read to her children as infants. She encouraged curiosity & persistence. She knew the importance of nature and enjoyed tramping wild areas to observe birds and wildflowers. With her guidance the family created exhibitions of seashells, geodes, fossils, arrowheads, toads and turtles. She enjoyed gardening and preserving what she and Jerry produced. Her family loved her vegetable soup, fresh rye bread, homemade noodles and pies, lemon meringue being a specialty.
She is survived by daughters Georgia Ann (Indianapolis, IN) and Altha Jane (Chapel Hill, NC) and sister-in-law Valeria Smith (Inaha, GA).
Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, March 20, 2009 in The Inaha Baptist Church Cemetery in Turner Co., GA. The family will receive friends Thursday evening from six until eight at Perry Funeral Chapel, Ashburn, GA.
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