Mary Elizabeth Wood was born on January 31,1939 to Talmage and Jessie Wood. She had one other last name before becoming Mary Elizabeth Griffin in 1994 as she married the love of her life, James Griffin. Around September 22nd of 2022, she passed away… alone but at her home just as she’d desired since losing James many years earlier. Her departure from this world left us with a question, “How do you bring together a lifetime of memories in just a few short paragraphs?” Especially for someone who seemed to have lived more than one lifetime.
Mary lived a tapestry of a life, full of both light and dark threads. But, despite the challenges she faced, she was blessed. She brought three resilient, caring and loving children into this world. Mary Rose, Matthew Ronald and Rhonda Leigh Waller are her surviving children. And each of them have been blessed with children, whether through marriage or biological, who each add to her legacy. She became a grandmother for the first time in 1980 and as a result of the bringing together of many families through the years, now has seven grandchildren and multiple great grandchildren. She was the first of eight children born to her parents, fortunate in her generation to survive, by even today’s standards, to live quite a long life. A few of her younger brothers and sisters were not to be so fortunate, having passed away before her. Her brother Ralph Lewis Wood is her only remaining sibling still alive.
As a daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. As a child of God. As a friend who just couldn’t keep a secret. She was all of these and her entire family wishes to honor the time that she spent on this earth in all its fullness and richness. Mary’s life will be celebrated on October 3, 2022 at 11:00am, graveside, at Forest Hills Memorial Gardens where her body will be laid to rest next to James’. She has entered the Father’s presence and may she forever rest in peace in His loving care.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.taragardenchapelfuneralhome.com for the Waller-Griffin family.
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