Berrien-Dougherty County GaArchives Obituaries.....McCartney, Margaret Lucy McLendon September 29, 2008
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The Berrien Press - October 8, 2008
 Margaret Lucy McLendon McCartney, 83, formerly of Tifton and a long-time 
resident of Albany, died Monday, Sept. 29, 2008.Funeral services will be held 
at 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, in the chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for 
Funerals, with burial to follow in Oakridge Cemetery. Dr. W. Ches Smith II will 
officiate. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends 
from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. 
Mrs. McCartney was born June 30, 1925, in Berrien County to Marion Wesley 
McLendon and Millie Lucyann Hancock McLendon, both deceased. She was also 
preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, James Thomas McCartney Jr.; four 
sisters, Georgia Martin-Vegue, Verna Alderman, Mary Kate Duke, Dora Alderman; 
and three brothers, Roger, Melvin and Jack McLendon. During World War II, Mrs. 
McCartney worked with the War Rationing Board and later the Postal Service. She 
later worked with the Georgia Power Co. and was a bookkeeper for several years. 
She had also been active in real estate in the Albany area. Mrs. McCartney was 
a long-time member of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany and a member of the 
Eastern Star. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She is survived 
by her son, James Thomas McCartney III; a daughter-in-law, Irene Smith 
McCartney; grandchildren, Margaret Ann (Maggie), Katherine Irene, Thomas Lamar, 
and James Wesley, all of Conroe, Texas; brother-in-law, Nicholas Wright 
McCartney; sister-in-law, Miriam McCartney Cauthen, both of Tifton; and 
numerous nieces and nephews. Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals was in charge of 
arrangements. 


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