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Date: Monday, January |
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Margaret Catherine Elizabeth Pace Pitts Born - February 20, 1911 Died - December 15, 1980 Buried Dec 17, 1980 @ Stockdale Baptist Church Cemetery. When Cousin John asked me to write an article on my Grandmother I was flattered... and a little nervous. What could I say about her that others couldn't say better. After all there are many others that knew her far better than I. But here goes. She was a large woman (I take after her myself.) She was a beautiful woman (I take after her myself haha.) But that is very superficial information. she was much more than that. She was a consummate, may I say "gourmet" Southern chef. When we visited from our home in Illinois we would wake up to our Granddaddy calling "breakfast", we would then wash our hands and file into the kitchen to gather around the table for wondrous breakfasts. Then as soon as breakfast was over she would get up and while my mom and later my mom and us girls ( when we couldn't escape outside to follow our cousins around) would clean the breakfast dished, she would start dinner. For those of you not of the Southern persuasion dinner is commonly known as Lunch. She was also something of a "Dr Mom" and had a country remedy for every malady. To me she was a warm, loving grandmother but I don't believe she ever took any guff from anyone. It seems like she was the first of the Woolfolk Paces to marry. She once told some of us girls that she was standing outside with some of her sisters and saw my granddaddy coming down the road we aren't clear whether he was walking or if he was rakishly dressed trundling along in his model T. Whatever the case, he caught her eye and she told her sisters that was the man she would marry and marry him she did. She was a highly intelligent woman with a mind of her own. She married Henderson Huey Pitts on March 24, 1929. They had 4 daughters, Sara Maude, Mary Francis, Elizabeth (Betty) and Martha Helen and one son, my dad Thomas Huey Pitts. There were also blessed with 17 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren so far. They shared more than 50 years of life with each other and my granddaddy mourned her greatly till the day he joined her in death. There really isn't enough room in this newsletter to write of the memories that I have of her. This was certainly a thumbnail sketch of her. She's gone now but much of her lives on. I can see her in my Dad, my youngest brother (maybe even more than in myself) and I see her in my brothers daughter only 9 years old but some genes breed true! My Grandmother, like all of us wasn't perfect but she WAS a great lady. Judy Pitts Denton |
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Margaret Pace Pitts |
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Pitts's 50th Anniversary |
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Right: Mr. & Mrs. H. H. Pitts |