Cora A.R. McCarra
Published 6:00 am Monday, January 17, 2011
Services for Cora Annie Roberts McCarra will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Wright’s Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in East Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mrs. McCarra, 101, of York, Ala., died Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011, at Sumter County Health and Rehab in York. Mrs. McCarra was a devoted mother and loved her family and grandchildren. Throughout her life she kept the faith.
Survivors include her sons Morris McCarra and and wife, Sandra, of Collinsville, Miss., and Billy Ray McCarra and wife, Betty, of Meridian; daughter, Frances Boswell and husband, Bobby, of Livingston, Ala.; sister Virgie McCarra of Meridian; eight grandchildren, Carrie Lynn Baswell, Debbie Linton, Sharon Massey, Donna Baxley, Donna Woods, Virginia Hill, Ann Vandenberg and Deborah Baird; 10 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Wesley E. and Ella Jane Roberts; husband, Perry S. McCarra; two sons, Elmer McCarra and Carl McCarra; three brothers, Dan Roberts Wesley Roberts Jr. and Jonsey Roberts; and five sisters, Claudia Flowers, Ludie Barnett, Lessie Rainey, Adell Morgan and Ruth Ceasar.
Visitation will be Tuesday after 1 p.m. at the funeral home.