Mary Duke Mashburn's Obituary
Obituary
Mary Duke Mashburn died on March 24, 2020, at the age of 104. She was born on July 27, 1915 in Montezuma, Georgia, the daughter of Ernest Carlton and Bethany Powell Duke. Mary married William A. Mashburn on September 27, 1936. They were married for 60 years until his death in 1996. She is survived by two children, William A. Mashburn, Jr. of Monrovia, Maryland, and Bethany M. Edwards of Birkenhead, England, and two grandchildren, Robert A. Mashburn of Greenville, SC and David C. Mashburn of Rockville, MD, and six great-grandchildren.
Mary taught for some 30 years at the private kindergarten she started in 1955. Many of her students were the children and grandchildren of some of her original classes.
She was a devout and loving member of the First Baptist Church of Montezuma, Georgia for 93 years.
Services will be delayed until the current corona crisis is over. After a local memorial service, Mary will be interred in Unadilla, Georgia at the Walnut Hill Cemetery to rest beside her beloved husband of 60 years.
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