Mavine Hartley Kardys, 85, of Savannah, Georgia and wife of MSgt Ernest Ted Kardys, U. S. Air Force (Ret.), died Wednesday afternoon, May 28, 2014, at her home with her husband and granddaughter, Melanie, at her side.
Born in Bartow, Georgia, she was a daughter of the late Marvin Hartley and the late Ruby Watkins Hartley. Mrs. Kardys was a member of Calvary Baptist Temple. She was a homemaker and a former Avon representative. Mrs. Kardys loved her family and thoroughly enjoyed being a military wife.
Surviving are her husband of 60 years, MSgt Ernest Ted Kardys, U. S. Air Force (Ret.) of Savannah, Georgia; one daughter, Leah Kaye Barnes of Brunswick, Georgia; one son, Keith Douglas Kardys of Savannah, Georgia; four grandchildren, Melanie Barnes and her husband, Tony Ballweg, Hilary Barnes and her husband, Michael, Chelsea Barnes and her husband, Kyle, and Brian Barnes and his wife, April; six great-grandchildren, Justice Barnes, Adriene Gaskin, Grady Vaughn, Tarilyn Turner, Christopher Barnes and Tyler Barnes; one sister, Sybil Tull of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; a number of nieces and nephews, and her neighbor who was also one of her caregivers, Miriam Walker.
A funeral service will be held at a later date with the arrangements to be announced by Gamble Funeral Service ' 410 Stephenson Avenue.