A memorial service will be held at Lakewood Funeral Home on Monday, July 6, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will precede at 10:00 a.m.
She was born March 27, 1927, in Old Salem, Texas to Archie and Mertie Boyd. While her name derives from Thetis—a Greek goddess of water and the mother of Achilles—Theadeaus has gone by many nicknames over the years including Mother, Grandmother, Trish and “G Mother C.”
Trish grew up in the woods of East Texas during the Depression until she moved to live with her sister Dot. In the 1940’s she rented a room in a boarding house in Houston, where she met and married J.D. Craig. They eventually moved to Jackson, Mississippi where they could be closer to the Craig clan in Rankin county. Trish was an assembly-line worker at the Presto Manufacturing Company, making various home appliances while Mr. Craig was a postman for the United States Postal Service. She encouraged her daughters to strive for the Presto Foundation Scholarship to pay for their college educations through a combination of guilt, fear and praise (which she used masterfully to her daughters’ benefit).
She was an active member of the Wildwood Baptist Church, attending Sunday School, supporting the church through her regular tithing, and actively participating in the 60+ Club.
Her interests included family, sewing for her children and travel when she retired. She loved to dance the waltz and jitterbug when she was younger and took up square dancing later in life. Music was always playing somewhere in the background when she was raising her family. She devoted much of her time and energy to cleaning up after her daughters and grandchildren until she passed away at age 93.
Trish is survived by her daughters, Sandra Mangum and Lisa Dante; grandchildren Jayson Moak, Joel Moak, Craig Mangum, Charlie Nowell, James Nowell and Rowan Dante; and great-grandchildren Austin Moak, Prestin Moak and Magnolia Mangum.
She was preceded in death by her husband, J.D. Craig.
“God touched her with His finger and she slept,” but not until a beautiful life was lived. Few of us will live as long and as well, and fewer yet will the Angel of Death greet with such a loving touch. In such a death, there is no cause for grief. Her life work was done and her death was a final step toward the great reward she so richly deserved.
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