Barbara McLanahan Granger

I can do all things through Christ

who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:13

Barbara McLanahan Granger, 88, of Jacksonville, Florida, passed away unexpectedly on

November 13, 2024. She was born Barbara Jean McLanahan on June 18, 1936 in Atlanta,

Georgia. She moved frequently as a child due to her father’s job, living in Georgia, Tennessee,

Florida, South Carolina, and Virginia, some places more than once. She graduated from

Columbia High School in Columbia, SC in 1954. That same year, she moved with her family to

Norfolk, VA, where she became a private secretary to an army captain. The following year, she

moved to Charleston, SC, where she worked as a legal secretary to a former U.S. Congressman.

On September 8, 1956, she married Marion Granger and moved to Miami, FL, where she had

her two children. Finally, she moved to Jacksonville, FL in 1974, where she worked as a claims

clerical supervisor and then office manager’s assistant at Home Insurance Co. She worked as

an office manager for Air Systems, Inc., Heating and Air, from 1983 until she retired in 2001.

She was a Notary Public from 1981 to 2001.

Barbara always prided herself in her typing and shorthand skills. She was also highly skilled at

sewing, taking after her mother, an accomplished seamstress. Barbara made her own dresses,

her daughter’s dresses, and her daughter’s doll clothes. She loved cooking for her family, being

a homemaker, and volunteering at church and school. She was Vice President and Treasurer

of the PTA, and Treasurer and Deaconess at her church. She spent her time at church and

enjoying quality time with her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Above all, Barbara was a devout Christian. She was raised in the Methodist Church. She loved

the Lord and attended the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church for most of her adult life.

She also attended Merrill Road Baptist Church and Calvary Christian Fellowship. She prayed

daily and led many of her grandchildren to accept the Lord as their Savior.

After selling her home in 2011, she lived with her daughter and son-in-law for the remainder of

her life. Some of her favorite pastimes were spending time with family, reading her Bible,

listening to Christian television and music, watching the ducks on the lake, watching golf and

football, coloring, and word search puzzles. She cherished her children, grandchildren, and

great grandchildren who called her Granny.

Goodness and mercy surely followed her all the days of her life (Psalm 23:6).

Barbara was predeceased by her father, Howell McLanahan, her mother, Hazel Black

McLanahan, and her brother, James “Jimmy” McLanahan. She is survived by her daughter,

Linda Granger Wisser, her son-in-law, Charles Edward Wisser, her son, Glenn Howell

Granger, her 7 grandchildren, Ryan Stillson, Heather Rose, Amber McCormick, Kevin Wisser,

Angela Cookston, Deanna Eagerton, and Timothy Granger, and 13 great grandchildren.

Services will be held graveside at Arlington Memorial Park

on November 21, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.