Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, July 29, 1990                   TAG: 9007290019
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONTVALE                                  LENGTH: Short

OBIT GARRETT, M.

Margaret Buford Garrett, age 93, of Route 1, died Thursday, July 26, 1990, in the Richfield Nursing Center in Salem. She was born in Bedford County, June 1, 1897, a daughter of the late James Otey Buford and Mary Luck Buford. She was the widow of Robert Guy Garrett, Sr. She was a retired school teacher with 45 years of service to the Bedford County Public Schools and to Otterburn Academy. She was a member of Montvale United Methodist Church. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Robert G., Jr. and Alice C. Garrett, Roanoke; grandchildren, Margaret and Danny Gills, Susan and Ray Byrd, Roanoke; Barbara and Robert G. Garrett, III, Laura and Robert Wiley, Richmond; Cynthia Jane Garrett, Athens, Ga.; five great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Katherine G. Sjogren, Bedford. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at Walnut Grove Union Church with the Rev. James F. Riach and the Rev. William P. Combs officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family suggests those wishing to make memorials consider the cemetery fund at Walnut Grove Union Church. Friends may call at Carder-Tharp Funeral Home, Bedford.