Obituary for Mrs. Beverly Ann Cranford

Funeral services for Mrs. Beverly Cranford, 85, of Carthage, Texas will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Dale Reed and Bro. Blackie Cranford officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery in Garrison, Texas under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation will be 6-8:00 p.m. Tuesday night at Hawthorn’s. Mrs. Cranford died peacefully at her Carthage home, November 20, 2017. 
Mrs. Beverly Ann Cox Cranford was born September 26, 1932 in Timpson, Shelby County, Texas to Jesse Morgan and Daisy Jerusha Smith Cox. She was raised in Timpson and graduated with the class of 1951. 
Beverly married Travis Eugene “Dick” Cranford on April 5, 1952 in Garrison and they would celebrate 65 years together. Mrs. Cranford would retire from Panola County working in the Voter Registration office after many years of service. 
She was a member of the Carthage Missionary Baptist Church, loved cooking, traveling, gardening and the outdoors. She is preceded in death by her parents, Jesse and Daisy Cox, brothers, Joe and Edward Cox and a grandson, Stephen Cranford. 
Mrs. Cranford is survived by her devoted husband, Dick Cranford, children, Robbie Wedgeworth and husband WA, and Danny Cranford and wife Michelle, sister, Mary Lynn Cox Harris and husband Wilfred, grandchildren, Shannon Davis and wife Crystal, Alysha Cockerham and husband Shane and Trevor Wedgeworth, TC Cranford, Cody Freeman and husband Brent, great grandchildren, Cohen, Harper and Ellie Brooks Cockerham, Brylee Davis, Caleb Wedgeworth, Jesse Cranford, Cayleb, Gavyn, and Jaydence Bird, numerous nieces, nephews and a host of friends. 
Serving as pallbearers will be, Cayleb Bird, Mark Harris, Shannon Davis, Trevor Wedgeworth, Shane Cockerham, WA Wedgeworth, and honorary pallbearers will be TC Cranford and Cohen Cockerham. Special thanks to Sandra Adams, Ruby Carter and Connie Lengl for their love and care. An online guestbook may be signed at www.hawthornfuneralhome.com

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