TUPELO – Mary Virginia "Ginger" McCarty Arnold died Thursday, March 6, 2014, peacefully in Reed Green House at Traceway Retirement Community. She was born in Tupelo on May 4, 1946, to the late Bessie "Sissy" Rhodes McCarty and the late L.P. "Bud" McCarty. She graduated from Tupelo High School and attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., before graduating from the University of Mississippi with a B.S. degree in elementary education.
For many years, she taught first grade at Jackson Academy in Jackson, where she was beloved by her students and their parents. After returning to Tupelo, she taught kindergarten at First Methodist Church and tutored students at the Learning Skills Center. Her special fields were teaching reading and working with students who were dyslexic. She again became an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo, where she taught young children in Sunday school. She was an excellent cook who especially enjoyed preparing delicious meals for her family, and she was talented in the needle arts, creating lovely works of embroidery and needlepoint. She was dedicated to her students and devoted to her family.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m., Monday, March 10, at Tupelo Memorial Park with Dr. Ron Richardson officiating. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by her two brothers, Leroy P. McCarty Jr. and his wife, Lou Ann, and Richard R. McCarty and his wife ,Karen, all of Tupelo; two nephews, Pearce McCarty and his wife, Lisa, of Minneapolis and Richmond McCarty and his wife, Emily, of Tupelo; and four grandnephews and two grandnieces.
Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday in McFadden Hall at First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo.
Memorials may be made to Sanctuary Hospice House, P.O. Box 2177, Tupelo, MS 38803 or to the Children's Programs of First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 1725, Tupelo, MS 38803.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Mar. 8, 2014
For many years, she taught first grade at Jackson Academy in Jackson, where she was beloved by her students and their parents. After returning to Tupelo, she taught kindergarten at First Methodist Church and tutored students at the Learning Skills Center. Her special fields were teaching reading and working with students who were dyslexic. She again became an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo, where she taught young children in Sunday school. She was an excellent cook who especially enjoyed preparing delicious meals for her family, and she was talented in the needle arts, creating lovely works of embroidery and needlepoint. She was dedicated to her students and devoted to her family.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m., Monday, March 10, at Tupelo Memorial Park with Dr. Ron Richardson officiating. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by her two brothers, Leroy P. McCarty Jr. and his wife, Lou Ann, and Richard R. McCarty and his wife ,Karen, all of Tupelo; two nephews, Pearce McCarty and his wife, Lisa, of Minneapolis and Richmond McCarty and his wife, Emily, of Tupelo; and four grandnephews and two grandnieces.
Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday in McFadden Hall at First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo.
Memorials may be made to Sanctuary Hospice House, P.O. Box 2177, Tupelo, MS 38803 or to the Children's Programs of First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 1725, Tupelo, MS 38803.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Mar. 8, 2014
TUPELO – Mary Virginia "Ginger" McCarty Arnold died Thursday, March 6, 2014, peacefully in Reed Green House at Traceway Retirement Community. She was born in Tupelo on May 4, 1946, to the late Bessie "Sissy" Rhodes McCarty and the late L.P. "Bud" McCarty. She graduated from Tupelo High School and attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., before graduating from the University of Mississippi with a B.S. degree in elementary education.
For many years, she taught first grade at Jackson Academy in Jackson, where she was beloved by her students and their parents. After returning to Tupelo, she taught kindergarten at First Methodist Church and tutored students at the Learning Skills Center. Her special fields were teaching reading and working with students who were dyslexic. She again became an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo, where she taught young children in Sunday school. She was an excellent cook who especially enjoyed preparing delicious meals for her family, and she was talented in the needle arts, creating lovely works of embroidery and needlepoint. She was dedicated to her students and devoted to her family.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m., Monday, March 10, at Tupelo Memorial Park with Dr. Ron Richardson officiating. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by her two brothers, Leroy P. McCarty Jr. and his wife, Lou Ann, and Richard R. McCarty and his wife ,Karen, all of Tupelo; two nephews, Pearce McCarty and his wife, Lisa, of Minneapolis and Richmond McCarty and his wife, Emily, of Tupelo; and four grandnephews and two grandnieces.
Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday in McFadden Hall at First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo.
Memorials may be made to Sanctuary Hospice House, P.O. Box 2177, Tupelo, MS 38803 or to the Children's Programs of First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 1725, Tupelo, MS 38803.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Mar. 8, 2014
For many years, she taught first grade at Jackson Academy in Jackson, where she was beloved by her students and their parents. After returning to Tupelo, she taught kindergarten at First Methodist Church and tutored students at the Learning Skills Center. Her special fields were teaching reading and working with students who were dyslexic. She again became an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo, where she taught young children in Sunday school. She was an excellent cook who especially enjoyed preparing delicious meals for her family, and she was talented in the needle arts, creating lovely works of embroidery and needlepoint. She was dedicated to her students and devoted to her family.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m., Monday, March 10, at Tupelo Memorial Park with Dr. Ron Richardson officiating. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by her two brothers, Leroy P. McCarty Jr. and his wife, Lou Ann, and Richard R. McCarty and his wife ,Karen, all of Tupelo; two nephews, Pearce McCarty and his wife, Lisa, of Minneapolis and Richmond McCarty and his wife, Emily, of Tupelo; and four grandnephews and two grandnieces.
Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday in McFadden Hall at First Presbyterian Church in Tupelo.
Memorials may be made to Sanctuary Hospice House, P.O. Box 2177, Tupelo, MS 38803 or to the Children's Programs of First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 1725, Tupelo, MS 38803.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Mar. 8, 2014
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