TIFTON —
Edith Mary Shaw Marchant, 80, of Tifton, died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, at her daughter’s residence.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors with the Rev. Ronnie Vice officiating. Burial will follow at Lawrence Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1:30 p.m. until the time of the service on Tuesday.
Ms. Marchant’s nephews and grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Born Dec. 11, 1931, in Guin, Ala., to the late Flem Hollis Shaw and Essie Lou Berryhill Shaw, Ms. Marchant was also preceded in death by one son, Jerry Lee Cravey; one brother, Leon Shaw; one sister, Faye Tolbert; and one great-grandson, Briley Roberts.
Ms. Marchant had lived most of her life in Tifton where she was a homemaker and a caregiver to her mother. She enjoyed playing Bingo and telling jokes, and she loved her grandchildren. Ms. Marchant attended Grace Baptist Church in Tifton.
Ms. Marchant is survived by one daughter and one son-in-law, Pamela and Ronnie Storey of Tifton; one brother, Roland Shaw of Sparks; two sisters and two brothers-in-law, Mable and Bill Gray of Winter Haven, Fla., and Adele and James Pitts of Chattahoochee, Fla.; her grandchildren, Michelle Hobbs McDaniel, Jodi and Clay Roberts, and Brittany Cravey Hernandez and Joseph Hernandez; and her great-grandchildren, Bryce McDaniel, Seth McDaniel, Maryssa McDaniel, Lexi Roberts, Hailey Roberts and Cameron Ross Cravey.
You may sign the guest registry at www.albritton-beaumontfuneralhome.com.
Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
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