Mary Self-Karlovich , wife of C&S/DL Capt. John M. Karlovich

~ IN MEMORY ~

Mary Barrett Self-Karlovich, wife of C&S/DL Capt. John Karlovich

July 17, 1925 ~ January 18, 2016

 

Belated notice with the passing of Mary Karlovich, wife of Delta Golden Wings member retired C&S/DL pilot Captain John Martin Karlovich.  Mary's obituary can still be viewed at

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/mary-self-karlovich-obituary?pid=1000000177350726  also 

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Mary-Self-Karlovich&lc=4768&pid=177350726&mid=6763335 

Captain Karlovich, born in May 1925, joined Chicago & Southern 05-19-1952 and retired with Delta Air Lines. 

Please note this new email address... Captain Karlovich can be reached at jkarlo69@gmail.com

            Thank you,

                ~ Carol for the PCN 

 

Obituary..............Mary Barrett Self-Karlovich

 

Mary Barrett Self-Karlovich, age 90, of Rome, passed away on Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, at her residence.

 

The former Mary Elizabeth Barrett, she was born on July 17, 1925, in Calhoun, Ga., to the late Bartow Webster Barrett, Sr., and Myrtle Smith Barrett. She was married in 1942 to Newell Carter Self who preceded her in death in 1991. Also preceding her in death were siblings: Charles Eugene Barrett, Raymond A. Barrett, Melba Barrett Billingsley, Bartow Webb Barrett, Jr., Virginia Barrett Jenkins, Sara Jacqueline Barrett Taylor, Roy Carmen Barrett and Marjorie Barrett Copeland.

 

She graduated from Plainville High School and the Carol Lynn Business School. During World War II she worked in the shipyards in Savannah, Ga., and then for Bell Aircraft in Marietta. She spent 10 years at Brighton and Burlington Mills before becoming a private secretary for Mr. H. E. Jones at Berry College. A job transfer found her and her husband in Jackson Hill and Denton, N.C., where she worked as a secretary for Hill Motor Company before being employed by the U. S. Postal Service. Another transfer brought them back to Georgia in 1977 where she finished her working career at the Kingston Post Office, retiring in 1994. In retirement they spent the winters in Florida on a private airstrip, called Woods and Lakes, and the summers in Piquot Lakes, Minn., before moving back to Rome in 2009. No matter where she lived she found lasting friends who stayed in touch through the years.

 

Survivors include her husband, John Martin Karlovich, whom she married in 1994; daughter, Sharyne Self Gaddis, Greensboro, N.C.; grandchildren, Jane Gaddis Rivenbark (Scott), Roanoke, Va., and Christopher Edward Gaddis (Marlo), Burlington, N.C.; great grandchildren, Kathryne Elizabeth and Sarah Jane Rivenbark and Mason Carter Gaddis; and many loving nieces and nephews.

 

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, at 1 p.m. at the North Broad Baptist Church with the Rev. Micah Pritchett officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Hill Memorial Gardens.

 

The family will receive friends at the North Broad Baptist Church on Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. until the service at 1 p.m.

 

Memorial contributions may be sent to the North Broad Baptist Church, 1309 North Broad St., Rome, Ga., 30161, or Heyman HospiceCare, P.O. Box 163, Rome, Ga., 30162-0163.