FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Mrs. Grady Boggs

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Rome News Tribune August 5, 1966
Mrs. Grady Boggs
Mrs. Grady Boggs, 48 of 6 Ridgewood Rd. died Tuesday
afternoon in a Rome hospital after a lengthy
illness.

Mrs. Boggs was the former Miss Marjorie Shannon and
was born in Rome July 25, 1919, the daughter of
Claude D. Shannon and the late Etta Lee Ellison, who
died on January 13, 1937. Mrs. Boggs had lived in
Rome all her life. She was a graduate of Rome High
school and during World War II, she became
affiliated with the Commerce Department. She was
married in Washington to Grady Boggs, on June 1,
1945. She was past president of the Mount Aventine
Garden Club and was active in all phases of church
work at the First Christian Church, of which she was
a member.

Surviving are her husband; father, Claude D.
Shannon; three daughters, Karen Sue, Judu Anne and
Etta Jane Boggs, all of Rome; two brothers, Clyde
Shannon, of Rome and Herschel Shannon, of Orlando,
Fla.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m.
Thursday at the First Christian Church, with the
Rev. Wayne Neiderhuth and Chaplain Z.B.T. Cox
officiating. Interment will be in Sunset Hills
Memorial Cemetery, Stevens-Davenport Funeral Home
directing.

The body will be carried Thursday to the church to
lie in state from 10 until 11 a.m. The following
will serve as active  pallbearers: Jesse McGhee,
Fletcher Findley, Frank Haskins, Guy Denman, James
Weldon and Jimmy Garrett. Honorary pallbearers will
consist of the board members of the First Christian
Church. The family will be at the residence, 6
Ridgewood Rd. (note:died Aug. 2)