Margaret Lafaye (Culver) Champion

Margaret Champion passed away on July 7, 2013. She was born in Midway, Georgia, on May 17, 1924, to Jeneral Ernest Culver and Edna Grace (McCoy) Culver. Following the death of her mother, she spent most of her childhood years in the home of her aunt, Emma (Culver) Knight, and uncle, Arelious W. "Clinton" Knight in the East Lake neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she attended the Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Margaret graduated from Central High School in Chattanooga in 1942. She worked as a telephone operator during World War II, with assignments in Anniston, Alabama, and Miami, Florida. Returning to the Chattanooga area after the war, Margaret met and married Richard Champion in 1947. Career choices took them to Miami, Florida; Birmingham, Alabama; and New Orleans, Louisiana, before returning to Chattanooga in 1968. Following Richard's death, she moved to Warner Robins, Georgia to be near her son.

At various stages in her life Margaret enjoyed sewing, quilting, working in a bakery, and cooking some of her own favorite recipes. Her parents, her Aunt Emma and Uncle Clinton, her husband of 40 years, and two brothers, J.E. and George Culver, preceded her in death.

Margaret is survived by a son, Marvin Champion (Pam) of Warner Robins; sister, Annette Davis (Bobby) of Foley, Alabama.; two brothers, Clawes Culver (Barbara) of Rileyville, Virginia; and Doyle Culver of Oxford, Alabama; nieces; cousins; two grandsons, David Champion (Kaylea) and Stephen Champion (Katie); and two great-granddaughters.

Visitation will be Thursday evening, July 11, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at McCullough Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 13, 2013 at Wilson Funeral Home, Wallis-Stewart Chapel in Ringold, Georgia. The family will greet visitors at the funeral home from 9:30 a.m. until service time. Interment will follow in Anderson Memorial Gardens, Ringold, Georgia. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully suggests memorial donations to the Alzheimer's Association, 886 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201.

Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to sign the Online Registry for the family. McCullough Funeral Home and Crematory has charge of arrangements.





Funeral Home:
McCullough Funeral Home
417 S. Houston Lake Rd.
Warner Robins, GA
US 31088