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Annie Hawks Mccandless

June 10, 1923 — December 11, 2004

Mrs. Annie Hawks Ledbetter White McCandless, 81, a resident of Life Care Center for the past year, died Saturday, December 11, 2004, at Life Care Center of Columbia.

Funeral services for Mrs. McCanless will be conducted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. at the Williams Funeral Home in Columbia with Dr. Tommy Hight officiating. Burial will be in the Polk Memorial Gardens. The family will visit with friends Monday from 2:00 until 6:00 p.m. and Tuesday from 10 am until the funeral hour at the funeral home.

She was raised in Franklin, TN and the daughter of the late Annie Smith Hawks and the late Charlie C. Hawks, Sr. She graduated from Franklin High School in Williamson County. She married the late William C. Ledbetter in 1941 and moved to Columbia where she has made her home ever since. She formerly resided at W. 14th Street in Columbia.

She is survived by a daughter, Sandra Ledbetter White Gandee, a son-in-law, Don Gandee, three grandsons, James C.Jennifer White, Christopher Lee White, and Ryan Gandee; one great granddaughter, Jillian White all of Columbia. She is also the widow of Aby R. White; deceased in 1968 and George C. McCandless; deceased in 1979. In addition to her daughter and three grandsons, she is survived by a step-daughter, Geraldine Jim Nelson of Mt. Juliet and Jerry Ann White of Brentwood, and several step-grandchildren; two sisters, Mary Sam Vest and Bessie Mae Waller of Franklin, and one brother, Wendell Hawks of Mt. Pleasant; two sister-in-laws, Francis Potts Hawks of Columbia and Margaret Hawks of Pigeon Forge. She was preceded in death by one brother, Charlie C. Hawks of Franklin and a son-in-law, Bobby Joe White of Columbia in 1982.

During her lifetime she worked at Vultee Aircraft, Ford Motor Plant in Michigan, Dixie Manufacturing in Columbia and was a licensed beautician and an ordained minister.

Pallbearers will include Jim Beuerlein, James Morton, Mark Gandee, Rick Coleman, Lester Cathey, and Jim Walker.

Honorary Pallbearers will include the nurses and staff at the Life Care Center in Columbia and a very close friend, Faye Hartsfield.
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