Margaret M Ramage

Margaret Wynette Moore Ramage left this life to go home on May 26, 2021. She was born on January 9, 1937, the youngest and only daughter of Hunter Dewey and Davie (Hudson) Moore in Fulton Mississippi.

Keeping up with her older brothers and exceptionally good at mathematics, Margaret began school at age 5 then skipped first grade into second grade with the family dog Rip walking with her. Margaret always valued education as the foundation to a solid future.

Margaret’s mother Davie was a schoolteacher during the “roaring twenties” who drove her own car until she married Hunter Moore. Her father Hunter worked in construction, had a farm and enjoyed being a store owner with Davie. Margaret and her brothers helped their folks with their family owned “Mom and Pops” grocery store. She learned at an early age by watching her parents the value of hard work, the joy of helping others, and the excitement of innovation.

As a young woman, Margaret met the love of her life Dr. James Wesley Ramage, PhD. (affectionately called Red) as a Freshman in college, IJC, at Fulton Mississippi, her hometown. They were married 59 ¾ wonderful years and had three children, three grandsons, and five great grandchildren together. Theirs was a true love story.

After they married December 26, 1954 they moved to Cleveland Mississippi, Delta State University where her husband continued school on the GI Bill, and she was employed in the office of Baxter Laboratories. Margaret took flying lessons and earned enough hours to get her pilot’s license. They moved to Nashville after his graduation, where she attended George Peabody College and worked on campus for Doctors Sudduth, Warren and Pangle, who oversaw the Doctoral program.

After moving back to Mississippi, she was employed as executive secretary for the plant manager of Supreme Electronics Inc. She also worked for attorney Fred Witty as a legal secretary. There was not a college within driving distance to attend.

Montgomery, Alabama was the next location where she attended Huntington College. She served as secretary for M.I.N.D. (Montgomery Institute of Neurological Development), Judge Richard Emmitt, President and associated with Mutual of New York Ins. Co.

They next lived in Hamilton, Alabama where they enjoyed rearing their three children and she was able to stay home and be near her parents who lived in Fulton, Mississippi.

Northport Alabama was home beginning in 1973. She pursued a career in real estate studying real estate appraising as well as management and sales. She was a certified Alabama Real Estate Appraiser and Real Estate Broker for more than thirty years, primarily in Pickens County. In the 1980’s Margaret partnered with L.D. Vail and Charlie Taggart Jr. to apply for and get one of the last FM radio frequencies in the nation to become WVRT 101.7 radio station in Pickens County. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Alabama in 1998.

James preceded Margaret to heaven in August 2014 and she visited him weekly to put a rose on his grave so most certainly the reunion is most precious. Their children became accomplished due in part to the encouragement of their folks who always told them they could be anything they wanted to be.

Margaret’s grandsons, Bobby, Hunter and Jordon and her great grandchildren Avram, Nathaniel, Grant, Charlee Jo and Fischer know how much she loved them.

Committed and involved in each of their lives, Margaret helped their grandsons with homework, took them on vacations, sewed clown outfits, picked one up after midnight while he was in college, and she said she loved them.

While living in Fulton Mississippi before marriage her extra-curricular activities in high school included serving as class officer, working on the “Chieftain” newspaper, the “Mirror” school annual, the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Club, Glee Club and private piano studies. Having been raised in the church she played the piano for church revivals in the New Salem Community where relatives lived.

With faithful teaching to trust Christ in her life and for her salvation, Margaret honored her strong Christian heritage by teaching her family to love God by the life she lived and the love she shared. Her faith, moral insight and strength of character will live on for a very long time. She was a member of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church for over 48 years. Her impact on all those she touched is both profound and lasting. Margaret’s grandsons remember her as a truly beautiful person who was an elegant southern lady.

Christmas was a special holiday for Margaret and James. She celebrated their

wedding anniversary the day after Christmas (December 26) and the birthdays of her beloved Red (December 19) and hers in January.

Margaret will be painfully missed and sweetly remembered by those who survived her: her three children Deborah Ramage Palmer (Phil), James Wesley Ramage II, (Teresa), Elizabeth Ramage Snider (Ted), grandsons, Robert “Bobby” Van Jagoe, Jr. (Staci), Hunter Snider (Hannah), Wesley Jordon Snider (Kristen), and great grandchildren Avram Jagoe, Nathaniel Jagoe, Grant Snider, Charlee Jo Snider and Fischer Snider. Sister-in-law Charlene (Mrs. Troy D. Moore), Sister-in-law Doris (Mrs. Bruce Ramage) and nieces and nephews.

Gone to heaven before Margaret were her parents Hunter and Davie Moore and Margaret’s brothers; Norton Hudson Moore (Jenny) and Troy Dalton Moore.

Funeral Services will be held Saturday, May 29th at Memory Chapel Funeral Home starting at 1:30 p.m. The family will receive friends from 12:30 to 1:30 at the funeral home. Interment services will be private for the family.