Miriam Geraldine Ramsey, 83

SPANISHBURG, W.Va. - Miriam Geraldine Ramsey, of Spanishburg, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007, at the home of her daughter. She was 83.

Born Dec. 8, 1923, in Spanishburg, she was the daughter of the late Oswald Karnes and Claudie Holston Karnes.

Mrs. Ramsey was a homemaker and was member of the Basin Freewill Baptist Church. She also attended the Rich Creek Baptist Church at Spanishburg.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Buster Ramsey, in 1997; two daughters, Joyce Corkell and Betty Reed; and two brothers, Reginald Karnes and Harold Karnes.

She is survived by seven daughters, Norma Reed of Herndon, Patricia Gale Reed of Matoaka, Elsie May Sawarese and her husband Barry of Walterboro, S.C., Phyllis Geraldine Watts and her husband Jerry of Lewes, Del., Shirley Beatrice Burton of Deltona, Fla., and Rebecca Lynn Collins and her husband David and Angela Kathy Thomas and her husband Tony, all of Spanishburg; three sons, Bobby Dale Ramsey and his wife Carol of Spanishburg, Stephen Ramsey and his wife Tomoko of Marydel, Md., and David Edward of Dover, Del.; one brother, Matthew Karnes of Upper Marlboro, Md.; three sisters, Leone Goins of Bristol, Va., Velma Ramsey of Wichita, Kan., and Kathleen Borders of Florida; 38 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the Rowland H. Bailey Funeral Chapel of the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home, Princeton, with the Rev. Ralph Calfee officiating, where friends may call one hour prior.

Interment will follow at the Bowling Cemetery at Spanishburg.

Family will serve as pallbearers.