Living

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: E87E266326164CE6A6F4B9D0EE03B7A2CAD8

Notes:

Died:
Martha Vardaman Braden Darnell, known to those who loved her as Moppy, died peacefully on February 15, 2016 in the arms of her daughter, Katharine Fox O'Connor, in Atlanta.

Moppy was born in Greenwood, Mississippi on July 27, 1943. She was the first daughter of William Braden Jr. and Martha Vardaman Braden. She is survived by her daughter and and her son in law, J. Gerard O' Connor, her sister Betsey Braden Teague of Plano, Texas, her brother in law, William Teague, nephews, William Christopher Teague and Robert Scott Teague, and grand-nieces and nephews.

Moppy was not only brilliant but more importantly, she was kind. There was never a person, cat, or dog in need whom she met and did not help. She loved not only her family and friends, but also roses, books, old movies, and especially her cats and dogs. She was a consummate conversationalist with the wit of the Delta at the tip of her tongue. There was hardly a topic, from literature to movies, history to politics, where Moppy did not have an opinion of value usually offered with a comical twist and a gleam in her eyes.

She especially loved Greenwood and more so, the people of Greenwood, with whom she had been friends since birth.

The streets of heaven are brighter with the addition of her soul, and the lives of those left without her on this earth are dimmer by far.

Graveside services will be held March 7, 2016 3:30Pm in Odd Fellows Cemetery. There will be a visitation on March 7, 2016 4:00pm till 5:30pm at the Episcopal Church of Nativity.

Published online by Wilson & Knight Funeral Home, Greenwood, Mississippi.

Martha married Richard Hamlin Darnell in Feb 1965 in Gatesville, Coryell County, Texas, United States. Richard (son of William Franklin Darnell, Jr. and Jeanette Hamlin) was born on 14 Feb 1942 in Edmond, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States; died on 31 Oct 2018 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States; was buried in Nov 2018 in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: FF54C7EC1AF6445FAC2FCDC3BF2A43489811

Notes:

Died:
Katharine O'Connor
September 07, 1965 - June 12, 2021
Katharine died June 12th, 2021 in Dublin, Ireland.
Katharine was born on September 7th. 1965 to Martha "Moppy" Darnell and Richard Darnell, both deceased. Katharine grew up in Greenwood Mississippi, a town she loved. She attended Delta State University as an undergraduate and went on to graduate from the University of Georgia with a Juris Doctor degree, Order of the Coif. She worked with a gifted team of lawyers at King and Spalding in Atlanta who remained her friends her whole life. Most recently Katharine dedicated her full time to the care of abandoned dogs and cats and volunteer work at the Margaret Mitchell House and Atlanta History Center.
Katharine is much loved and sadly missed by her grieving husband, Gerard, her uncle Dave Darnell, aunt and uncle Betsey & Bill Teague, her mother-in-law Maura, nieces Claire and Maeve, nephew Colm, sisters in law and brothers law, also by her very dear friends.
The Funeral Mass will be Friday, July 16, at 2 pm at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Atlanta. Mass will be live-streamed using this Livestream link: https://livestream.com/ctk directly before 2 pm Eastern Standard Time.
Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Greenwood, MS., on Sunday, July 18th, at 2 pm in the family plot.
In lieu of flowers please donate to Leflore County Humane Society, (https://leflorehumanesociety.org)
May Katharine's beautiful soul rest in eternal peace.

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]