GREENVILLE — Services for Anne Ross Gee McGee of Greenville will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, December 30, 2010 at St. James Episcopal Church in Greenville.
Mrs. McGee, 75, died on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010, in New Orleans after an illness.
She was born in Greenville, the daughter of Anne Strudwick Gee and Joseph James Gee, and grew up in Carrollton. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., and graduated from the University of Mississippi. In 1955 she married Burrell Otho McGee. The couple lived on the island of Crete during Mr. McGee’s service in the U. S. Air Force before moving to Greenville in 1961. They moved to Leland in 1969.
She was a communicant of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Leland and St. James Episcopal Church in Greenville. She was an active member at St. John’s, where she served on the vestry and the altar guild and was president of the Women of the Church. In Greenville she was a member of the Junior Auxiliary and most recently served on the altar guild at St. James.
From 1969 to 1998 she was owner of Cedar Hill Antiques in Leland and Carrollton. During the 1980s, she also operated McGee Custom Tours, leading private tours throughout Europe.
Mrs. McGee is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth McGee Cordes and Anne McGee Quarrier and her husband, Sidney; two granddaughters, Catherine Strudwick Cordes and Elizabeth Humphreys Cordes; and devoted friend of 30 years, Maggie Taylor.
The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday at St. James Episcopal Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. James Episcopal Church in Greenville or St. John's Episcopal Church in Leland.
Boone-Wells Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Burial will be in Greenville Cemetery.
