Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Frances Mae "Tan" (POOLE) GRAVELY  June 15 2003
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Thomasville Times Enterprise - Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Frances Mae Poole Gravely
Graveside services for Frances Mae Poole Gravely (Tan), are at 11 a.m. 
Wednesday, June 18, 2003 in Laurel Hill Cemetery on Carolina Street. The Rev. 
Leigh Ann Raynor will officiate. Mrs. Gravely, 99, died on Sunday, June 15 at 
Camellia Gardens of Life Care in Thomasville. She was born Nov. 14, 1903, in 
Greenville, Alabama, in Butler County. She was a daughter of the late Annie 
Fowler Poole and Elisha Calvin Poole. On Nov. 29, 1933, she was married in 
Greenville, Ala., to the late Dr. William Wallace Gravely of Thomasville, to 
whom she had been married for 62 years until his death in 1995. For 70 years 
after her marriage, Thomasville was her home. After finishing high school in 
Greenville, Ala., she graduated from Alabama College in Montevallo, Alabama, 
and from Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, where she received her 
bachelor of science degree in home economics education. She also attended 
Columbia University in New York and Florida State University. She taught 
school in Birmingham and Union Springs, Ala., and for a short time was a 
faculty member in the Thomasville City Schools. Mrs. Gravely was an active 
member of the Thomasville community. She was a member of the First United 
Methodist Church of Thomasville where she once served as a Sunday School 
teacher in the children's department, and where she was recently honored as 
being the oldest member of their000 congregation. As a supporter of Archbold 
Memorial Hospital, she held a lifetime membership in the Archbold Memorial 
Auxiliary and in the corporation of the hospital. She also had been a 
dedicated member of the Gray Lady Association volunteers of Archbold Hospital. 
She was a past member of the Girl Scout Council and was a leader of both 
Brownie and Girl Scout troops. She was a member of the National Society of the 
Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia, a past member of the 
Briarcliff Garden Club, a past member of the Thomasville Chapter of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution and a member of an early Thomasville 
organization know as the Thomasville Study Class. She was devoted and very 
dedicated to her friends and her family which were truly her lifetime hobbies. 
She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Ann Gravely McKinnon and her 
husband, Charles Wilson McKinnon, Jr. and Frances Gravely Parker and her 
husband, Joseph LeRoy Parker Jr., all of Thomasville. Also, she is survived by 
one sister of eight siblings, Mrs. C. G. Shanks, (Bet), 97 of Union Springs, 
Ala. She is also survived by six grandchildren and their spouses, William 
Charles (Bill) McKinnon and his wife, Gaye, of Birmingham, Ala.; Elizabeth 
McKinnon Edge and her husband, Pete, of Greenville, S.C.; Frances (Fran) 
McKinnon Herndon and her husband, Mills, of Thomasville; John Mark Parker and 
his wife, Carson, of Thomasville; Laura Parker Thompson and her husband, 
Richard, of Atlanta; and Julia Parker Cook and her husband, Sean, of Atlanta. 
Also surviving are 15 great grandchildren Clayton and Joseph McKinnon of 
Birmingham, Ala.; Lindsey and Michael Edge of Greenville, S.C.; Katherine and 
Randall (Randy) Herndon of Thomasville; Jackson and Walker Harris and Joseph 
(Joe) and Andrew (Drew) Parker of Thomasville, William (Will) and Benjamin 
(Ben) Thompson of Atlanta and Hannah, Bryce, and Lucy Cook of Atlanta, GA.
Also, a large number of nieces and nephews survive, mainy residing in Alabama. 
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church, 
P.O. Box 975, Thomasville, Ga. 31799; Archbold Foundation, 910 S. Broad 
Street, Thomasville, Ga. 31792; Brookwood School, 301 Cardinal Ridge Rd., 
Thomasville, Ga. 31792 or to any charity of choice. Visitors may sign the 
online guest register at www.allenfh.com. -- Allen & Allen Funeral Home

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