Marianne Walters Cannady

Marianne Walters Cannady, of 3101 Foxridge Road, Dothan, Alabama died on Friday, November 18, 2016.

Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee with graveside services at Arlington Cemetery.

Mrs. Cannady was born on October 22, 1929 in Mt. Pleasant, TN. She graduated from Hay Long High School in 1948 and was voted Sweetheart and class beauty of Hay Long High School. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where she was a member of Gamma Omega Chi Society. She graduated from New York School of Interior Design, NYC.  She was a portrait painter for the past 3 decades, painting portraits in oil on canvas or linen, studying under Jeannie Maddox. Mrs. Cannady was a member of the Board of Directors of the Gaston Day School, Gastonia, NC, the Gaston Country Club, and First Presbyterian Church. She was an active tennis player and won several trophies in Gastonia, NC. She was charter member of the Dothan Symphony, corresponding Secretary of the Garden-Study Club, a member of Dothan Dance Club, Enterprise Dance Club, past president of Dothan Country Club Bridge Club, a member of the Dothan Country Club, and a member of “Twenty-First Century Study Club and past corresponding secretary.

Mrs. Cannady was a member of Emassee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Mary Postell Chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames XVII Century, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists.

Mrs. Cannady was married to Jesse Richard Cannady on April 10, 1954 in Salisbury, NC.  Dick was CEO of Wachovia Bank in NC, past president and Chairman of the Board of Central Bank and founder of the bank that is now Compass Bank. She and her husband spent many years traveling abroad in Europe after he retired from Central Bank in 1991.  They visited Williamsburg, VA when Dick was the thesis adviser of University of Virginia for years in Charlottesville, VA. They built 5 houses using designs of Williamsburg, Anne drew the plans and had architects to draw the final plans.

Mrs. Cannady was preceded in death by her mother, Evelyn Lewis Hoge Walters Felton, who died in Dothan, Alabama on June 23, 1994, by her father, Earl Oakley Walters who died on October 5, 1933, and by her brother, Robert Oakley Walters of Mechanicsville, VA, who died August 30, 2001.

Survivors include her husband, Jesse Richard Cannady; her daughters, Dr. Beverly Fax Cannady of Stanley, North Carolina and Barbara Hoge Cannady of Dothan, Alabama; her grandchildren, Jessica Blake Evers, Atlanta, GA and Christopher Cannady Evers, Bradenton, FL; her 2 nieces, Debbie Walters, Sjogren and Kelly Walters Maas of Mechanicsville, VA; and by 2 great nieces and 2 great nephews.