Sara Kathryn "Teenie" Taylor McCranie, 80, of Brookfield, died Friday, May 5, 2006, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Graveside funeral services will be held Sunday, May 7, 2006, at 4:00 p.m. in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Rev. Walter Powell will officiate with burial to follow. Robert Bowen, George Branch, David Herlovich, Bo McCranie, William Bowen and Lance Alberson will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, May 7, 2006, at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Ms. McCranie was born on October 4, 1925 in Tift County and was the daughter of James Wiley Taylor and Sara Kathryn Gibbs Taylor, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by four brothers, Everett Taylor, Ray Taylor, Lewis Taylor and Ralph Taylor; and a sister, Grace Lumley. She was a homemaker and a member of the Brookfield United Methodist Church.
Ms. McCranie is survived by her husband, George Perry McCranie, Jr. of Brookfield; two sons and daughters-in-law, Buck and Barbara McCranie of Brookfield and Bill and Linda McCranie of Brookfield; one daughter and son-in-law, Sara Kathryn and Marvin Meinders of Washington, D. C.; six grandchildren, Sara Elizabeth Meinders, Kathryn Ann Hudson, George Perry McCranie, IV, Kathryn Eugenia Kauff, David Herlovich and Lance Alberson; and three great grandchildren, Kaitlyn Kauff, Kassidy Kauff and Kennedy Kauff.