Catherine Reed
Posted: July 30, 2010
SHUQUALAK — Catherine McGraw Reed, 88, died July 24, 2010, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Services are Saturday at 2 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Friendship Church Cemetery in Gholson. Visitation is today from noon-5 p.m. at Lee -Sykes Funeral Home in Macon. Reed was born May 21, 1922, in Reform, Ala., to Elbert and Ollie Vinzant McGraw. She retired after 20 years at Delta Brick Plant. A graduate of Blue Spring Middle School in Kemper County, she was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, two children, four sisters and one brother. She is survived by sons, John Lee Reed, of Greenwood, and Harlee Reed, of Bradenton, Fla.; daughters, Olivia Jones and Jackie Wickliff, both of Milwaukee, Mae Frances Davis, of Chicago, and Mildred Reed, of Shuqualak; 24 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Ollie Bell, of Martin, Tenn., Maxine, of East St. Louis, and Diane, of N.C.; and brother, Elbert Ray McGraw, of Delray Beach, Fla.