Margie Marie (Wilkerson) Jarvis, 98

SEAFORD - Margie Marie (Wilkerson) Jarvis, of Seaford, died peacefully at Genesis Elder Care-Seaford Center. She was 98.

Margie worked in retail most of her life with Webb's Laundry in New Castle and Silco in Berlin, Md.

She loved the Phillies, birds, flowers, country music, crocheting, Ocean City, Md., and her family.

Margie traveled extensively throughout the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

She was born in Dagsboro, daughter of the late Elijah Wilkerson and Addie Wilkerson Lynch.

Margie was preceded in death by her husband of almost 50 years, Ray Jarvis, in 1980; two brothers, Everett Wilkerson and Jack Wilkerson; two sisters, Roxie Tingle and Mattie Scott; a special cousin, Mildred Crippen; two stepsons, George Ray Jarvis and Herman Dale Jarvis; a granddaughter, Angela Jarvis; and a great-grandson, Charles E. Butler III.

Margie is survived by a daughter and her husband, Dr. Shirley J. and Charles Butler of Seaford; a son, Everett Earl Jarvis and his wife Teresa of Magnolia; grandchildren, Jae Moore and her husband Bruce, Luciana Mathay, Wendy Thery and her husband Bob, Laurie Jarvis, Charles E. Butler Jr. and his ex-wife Theresa and Michael A. Butler and his wife Carol; and her grandchildren, Kylee Jarvis, Charles A. Butler, Page Elizabeth Butler, Joseph Mathay, Maisy Mathay and Max Mathay.

Memorial services will be at noon Wednesday in St. John's United Methodist Church, Pine and Poplar streets, Seaford.

Burial will be private.

Instead of flowers, the family suggests donations to St. John's United Methodist Church Pew Fund, P.O. Box 299, Seaford, DE 19973.

Arrangements by the Cranston Funeral Home, Seaford.