1923
Catherine
2017
Catherine Childress Harvard
July 23, 1923 — March 28, 2017
Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 30th, at 11:00 AM at Montezuma United Methodist Church. Rev. Nancylee Cater and Dr. Tony Caldwell will officiate.Interment will follow at 2:00 PM in the Orange Hill Cemetery in Hawkinsville, GA with Military Honors. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the social hall of Montezuma United Methodist Church.
She was born in Indianola, Mississippi on July, 23, 1923. She lived on the family farm in Isola, Mississippi with her four brothers and two sisters until the age of eighteen when she joined the Women's Army Air Corps (WAC). While stationed at Maxwell Field, she met and married her husband of 56 years. She lived in Montezuma, Georgia for over 60 years where she was a member of the Montezuma Methodist Church.
Kitty retired from Robins Air Force Base as a civil servant with 30 years of service from the Procurement and Procedure Department. Her years in the WAC enabled her to use her athletic gifts. As captain of her softball and basketball teams she showed leadership in an era when there were few avenues where women could compete in athletics.Her family and friends will remember her faith-filled heart, her generous spirit, her servant hands, her curious mind, and her adventurous approach to life. She poured out her passion for her family, friends, gardening, cooking, church activities, spectator sports, and the outdoors. She was preceded in death by her parents, Samuel Belvi Childress and Zell Garrard Childress of Isola, Mississippi and her husband, Jerre Eugene Harvard.
"Miss Kitty" is survived by her daughter, Linda Howard (Hoke);her sons, John (Carol)Harvard, and Jerre (Beverly) Harvard; three grandsons, Jerre Harvard III (Gudrun), Hoke Howard Jr. (Katie), Christopher Harvard; a step granddaughter, Carley Blount McDonald; two granddaughters, Amye Donahoo, and Valerie Wells (Charles); three great granddaughters, Haley and Abigail Wells, Parker Howard; four great grandsons, Jackson and Bennett Donahoo, Benjamin and Magnus Harvard.
Those desiring may make donations to Montezuma United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 159 Montezuma, GA31063, or to Phoebe Sumter Hospice of Americus and Sumter County, 126 E. Furlow St, Americus, GA 31709.
The family is at the residence of John and Carol Harvard, 374 District Line Rd, Americus, GA 31709.
To sign our online registry or to send condolences to the family, you may visit Mathews' website at www.mathewsfuneralhome.com.
Mathews Funeral Home
Albany, GA
229-435-5657
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Service Schedule
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Visitation
Thursday, March 30, 2017
10:00 - 11:00 am (Eastern time)
Montezuma United Methodist Church
Funeral Service
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Starts at 11:00 am (Eastern time)
Montezuma United Methodist Church
Interment
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Starts at 2:00 pm (Eastern time)
Orange Hill Cemetery
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