Funeral services for Isabell Bradley Trantham, 90, of WashingtonWilkes and Ashland, Missouri, were held Wednesday, September 7, 2005, at Memorial Funeral Home in Columbia, Mo., with Jesse Northweather officiating. Entombment was in Memorial Park Cemetery. She died Saturday, September 3, in Ashland, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Carolyn and Jesse Northweather. Arrangements are pending for a memorial service to be held at the First Baptist Church in Washington.
Mrs. Trantham was born near Andrews, N.C., and was the daughter of the late Jeptha Wiley and Fannie Caroline Clark Bradley. She taught in the elementary school after earning her bachelor’s degree and a teaching certificate. She and her husband, Elmer Americus Trantham, and their daughter Carolyn came to Washington-Wilkes in 1947 and Mrs. Trantham began teaching at the elementary school in 1951 and later assumed the position of librarian. She became exclusively the high school librarian when became Washington-Wilkes High School and soon her titale included media specialist. She also served as librarian-media specialist for Washington Wilkes Comprehensive High School and before she retired in 1988 the library had been named in her honor. She earned her master’s in education from the University of Georgia and did post graduate work in librarianship at Emory University. She was a member of local, state, and national education and librarian organizations including lifetime membership in the National Education Association. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Washington where she taught Sunday School for many years.
In addition to her husband, daughter, and son-in-law, she is survived by two grandsons, Sean and his wife Joy, Damon and his wife Dana, all of Jefferson City, Mo., and three great-grandsons, Grant, Eric, and Luke.
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