Martha Carter

Gainesville - Martha Godfrey Cassity Carter departed this life on September 12, 2009. Born in 1925 to the late Dovie Cooper Godfrey and David Erasmus Godfrey, she was a child of the great depression, and she never forgot its lessons of charity and thrift.
Martha lived in exciting times and exotic places as she traveled the world. A pioneer when women's options were few, she blazed new trails as a dispatcher for Southern Railroad during World War II, a geologist and gold miner in Alaska, a real estate broker and an investor and in cooking schools in Asia and Europe when women had no access. In all her roles, she was known for her adventurous heart, her great courage, her innate talents and her exceptional kindness and her laugh, always self-effacing and always giving attributions to those who preceded her.
Known for her generosity of spirit and purse, she was a great friend, a loving mother, a loyal colleague, a compassionate benefactor and a kind and adoring grandmother with a joyous passion for life.
She is survived by three children and their spouses, Nancy Cassity Dunlap (Marion Crawford Dunlap III) of Clemson and Columbia, S.C., Oscar Thompson Cassity Jr. (Jana Loyd Cassity) of Athens, Ga., and Susan Cassity Kluge (C. Russell Kluge) of Marietta, S.C.; four grandchildren, Oscar Thompson (Casey) Cassity III, Margaret Maureen (Maggie) Cassity, Mica Morgan Kluge and McKenna Brynn Kluge; and her furry four- legged companion of 18 years, Ludlow. In addition to her parents, her brother, Hillyer Cooper Godfrey, predeceased her.
Visitation will be at Little & Davenport Funeral Home on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, from 12 p.m. until the funeral hour. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Little & Davenport Funeral Home. Rev. Bruce Fields will officiate. Interment will follow in Alta Vista Cemetery.
Online condolences can be made at littledavenport.com.
Little & Davenport Funeral Home, 355 Dawsonville Hwy., Gainesville, Ga., is in charge of arrangements.