Mary Ann Garth

Mary Ann Garth, 81, of Stanardsville, VA passed away peacefully at home on Monday, January 16, 2012, after a seven year battle with multiple myeloma. She was born on February 19, 1930 to the late Herman Roswell and Edith Alma Taylor Berry.

Mary Ann was a member of Stanardsville United Methodist Church. After graduation from William Monroe High School, she worked for Peoples National Bank of Greene (now Bank of America) where she retired after 23 years to help babysit her grandchildren and worked for the family business, Blue Run Grocery.

She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Thomas Moyers Garth, brothers, Warren Berry and Alban Berry, brother-in-law, Sewell Davis and sister-in-law, Gail Berry.

She is survived by her two children, Deborah Kaye Garth Deane and her husband, Lebert, and Thomas Michael Garth and his wife, Annette, sister, Christine Davis, brother, John Berry and sisters-in-law, Betty Berry and Jewel Berry .

Additional survivors include her grandchildren, Amy Deane Wayland and her husband, Jamie, Joseph Michael Garth, Jeremy Thomas Garth and his wife, Danielle, Travis Wesley Garth, and Jessica Marie Garth and his great-grandchildren, Bailey Wayland, Alexis Wayland, Jacob Wayland and Lathan Garth, 11 nieces and nephews and numerous great and great-great nieces and nephews.

She was an avid fan of the Redskins, the UVA Cavaliers, the William Monroe High School Dragons and her granddaughters’ Blue Ridge Heat fast-pitch softball team. She loved to read. She will be remembered for her love of traveling, snow and the Outer Banks.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, January 19, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Ryan Funeral Home, 12819 Spotswood Trail, Ruckersville, VA 22968.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Stanardsville United Methodist Church with Rev. Richard Davis officiating.

Interment will follow in Holly Memorial Gardens.

A special thanks to Dr. Maya Ghaemmaghami and the staff of the HOPE Center at Martha Jefferson Hospital for their years of care as well as Hospice staff, Mary Dillon, Edith Thomas and Ermenia Jandoio. The family also wishes to express a thanks to her dear neighbor, Erva Shifflett, her niece, Mary Konetski for the weekly meals and her nieces, Diane and Lois Berry for the companionship to the family in her final days.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Piedmont, 675 Peter Jefferson Pkwy, Suite 300, Charlottesville, VA 22911

An online guestbook is available at www.ryanfuneral.com

Ryan Funeral Home of Ruckersville is handling the arrangements.