Rhonda Mardelle Shirley McGahee

RHODA "MARDELLE" SHIRLEY MCGAHEE, age 97, Cornelia, Georgia passed away on Saturday, October 5, 2019.

Born in Franklin County, Georgia on November 20, 1921, she was a daughter of the late Dewey L. and Tinnie Andrews Shirley. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph G. McGahee, Sr. and sister, Marlene Shirley Dixon.

Mrs. McGahee was a graduate of Jonesboro High School and Drougham College of Business in Atlanta, Georgia. After her marriage to Joseph McGahee in 1945, they moved to Cornelia where she was the secretary of McGahee Furniture Company. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Cornelia, the Three-L Sunday School Class, WMU, and Business and Professional Women's Club. Mardelle enjoyed traveling and watching the Braves.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Joseph "Joby" and Edna McGahee of Clarkesville, Georgia; daughter and son-in-law, Rebecca "Becky" and Don Chambers of Rome, Georgia; brother and sister-in-law, Dewey L. "Buck" and Carolyn Shirley, of Morrow, Georgia; and sister, Mary S. Cooper, of Morrow, Georgia; grandsons and spouses, Don and Leanne Chambers, of Rome, Georgia; Jake and Emily McGahee of Clarkesville, Georgia; Clayton McGahee and Jennifer Meehan, of State College, Pennsylvania; granddaughter, Cindy Chambers of Jonesboro, Tennessee; great-grandsons, Whitman and Driver Chambers, Joseph and Mitchell McGahee, great-granddaughter, Catherine Shortt.

Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at the Whitfield Funeral Home, North Chapel. Interment will follow in Yonah Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, October 8, prior to the service.

Flowers will be accepted or donations may be made to the First Baptist Church of Cornelia, P.O. Box 96, Cornelia, Georgia 30531.

Arrangements are in care of Whitfield Funeral Homes & Crematory, North Chapel, 245 Central Avenue, Demorest, Georgia 30535.