Beatrice Gravatt

BORDENTOWN — Beatrice “Nana Bea“ Gravatt died Saturday at Samaritan Hospice, Mount Holly. She was a life-long resident of the area. Sfe was born in Florence, before moving to Bordentown in 1955.
    Mrs. Gravatt, along with her late husband, George “Ollie” Gravatt, owned a tax company in Florence. Later, when she moved to Bordentown, she worked 16 years for Crescent Sportswear in Bordentown. She then became a school bus driver for the Bordentown Regional School District where she was employed for 28 years.
    She loved driving the school bus and all of her “kids” that she drove over the years, as well as all of her fellow bus drivers. She was also very proud of her outstanding driving record and the award she received for 50 years of safe driving.
    She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Florence and the Bordentown Senior Citizens.
    Wife of the late George “Ollie” Gravatt, she was predeceased by her children, Georgine Greener, Betty Lou Turgyan and Edward Gravatt. She is survived by her grandchildren, Mark and Sharon Turgyan of Bordentown, Karen and Chuck DeBow of Eastampton, Tracy Hollan of Tampa, FL, Gary John Greener of Bordentown, Melissa Gravatt and her husband Anthony Solario of Las Vegas, and Melaney and Kurt Loose of Lumberton; her great-grandchildren, Stephen and Drew Turgyan, Paige and Morgan DeBow, Reagan and Logan Hollan, Jacob Greener, Madison Solario and Benjamin and Joseph Loose; a daughter-in-law, Rita Gravatt of Roebling; a son-in-law, Stephen Turgyan of Bordentown; two special nieces, Dianne Gravatt of Lawrenceville and Sherri Bowe of Bordentown as well as many other nieces, nephews and close friends.
    Funeral service were held Tuesday at the Peppler Funeral Home, 122 Crosswicks St., Bordentown. Interment followed in Bordentown Cemetery.
    In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may made to the Samaritan Hospice, 5 Eves Dr., Suite 300, Marlton, NJ 08053; the American Cancer Society, 3076 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 or to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 216 Haddon Ave., Suite 328, Westmont, NJ 08108.