Edith Ernestine McCartt

Dec. 14, 1931 - June 15, 2004
A memorial service for Edith Ernestine Hughett McCartt, 72, of Sedro-Woolley, Wash., will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30. Family, friends and former students will gather at the First Community Church, 2025 N. Jackson St., in Port Orford.
Ernestine, as she was known to friends and family, was born Dec. 14, 1931, in Robbins, Tenn., the only child of Ernest and Elva Hughett. She died June 15, 2004, in Sedro-Woolley.
In 1950, she graduated from Robbins High School. On April 16, 1955, she married Paul McCartt.
Ernestine taught elementary school in Ohio and Oregon while raising her three children. She taught in Yellow Springs, Ohio; Tillamook; Coquille; and for 22 years at Ophir Elementary, just north of Gold Beach. She retired from teaching in 1993.
Although they divorced in 1979, Paul, of Homer, Alaska, and Ernestine remained good friends.
She is survived by three children and 10 grandchildren, son, Steve McCartt and his wife, Gwen, and their children, Joseph, Daniel, Benjamin and Ann; son, Sam McCartt and his children, Jessica, Zachary, and Rebecca McCartt and Amy Denn; and daughter, Sandra Wilkinson and her husband, Russell and her daughter, Blair and stepdaughter, Jillian.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Elva Smithers Hughett; and father, Ernest Hughett.
Arrangements are under the direction of Affordable Burial and Cremation Services, LLC, in Mount Vernon, Wash.
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