Bessie E. Sherwood McCracken FREDERICA - Bessie E. Sherwood McCracken, of Frederica, died Saturday, April 24, 2010, at the Delaware Hospice Center. She was 100 years, 5 months, 11 days old. She was born in Riverside, N.J., to the late Frank and Jennie Kemp. Besides being a great homemaker, Mrs. McCracken worked as a clerk for Fletchers Package store for many years. She held numerous other jobs including a telephone operator, bus driver, and for Playtex. Her favorite hobbies included cooking, eating out, and dancing. She even danced on her 100th birthday. She was a great people watcher and enjoyed travelling. She especially enjoyed the cruises she had the pleasure of going on. She will be remembered as having a bubbly personality with a smile ever present on her face. She was always cool, calm, and collected, and never had a harsh word to say against anyone, and everyone she met genuinely liked her. Her family was her pride and joy and she was a wonderful mother and grandmother. Mrs. McCracken belonged to the Harrington and Milford Senior Centers, Harrington Moose Lodge #534, and a charter member for over 70 years with the Felton Fire Co. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbert "Cherry" Sherwood Jr.; infant daughter, Barbara; brother, Carl Kemp; and sisters, Wilhelmina Hammond, and Rachel Boone. She is survived by her son, Joseph Sherwood of Felton; daughters, Olive James of Long Neck, Audrey Holloway of Frederica, and Janet Urso of Port St. Lucie, Fla.; ten grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 28, in Melvin Funeral Home, 15522 South DuPont Hwy., Harrington, where friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday evening. Interment will be in Hopkins Cemetery, Felton.