Extracted from The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
AMENT CHARLOTTE WASHINGTON
AMENT, CHARLOTTE WASHINGTON McLAREN AMENT of Bastrop, Texas, passed away Saturday, August 16, 2003 of cancer. However, she will continue to live on in the hearts of the many people who loved her.
A descendant of the original Washington family of Westmoreland County, Virginia, Charlotte was born December 29, 1937, in Texarkana, Texas. After living in Nacogdoches until 1947, her family relocated to the Thomas Pratt Washington Plantation, which her ancestors had established near Garfield in 1845. She went to Austin public schools, graduated from Travis High School and attended The University of Texas until marrying and moving to Dallas, where her two children were born. Later, she graduated from North Texas State University in Denton, obtaining a degree in Elementary Education with a Kindergarten endorsement. In the 1970's, she taught Kindergarten at T. J. Lee Elementary School in Irving. She received both local and statewide Outstanding Teacher of the Year awards. Charlotte was active in numerous organizations, including Daughters of the Republic of Texas, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Daughters of the American Revolution - of which she was a founding member and Regent of the Irving White Oak Chapter. She was a life member of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association and a member of the Longhorn Foundation.
Her parents, Walter Harris and Winnie ``Dixie'' Emmons Washington, and her brother, Walter Harris Washington, Jr., preceded Charlotte in death. She is survived by her husband, George C. Ament; her two children and their spouses, James Kevin McLaren and wife, Linda, of Arlington, Molly McLaren Davidson and husband, Joby, of Dallas; and her three grandchildren, Travis James, Lindsay Nicole, and Emily Michelle McLaren. Also surviving are her sister, Sara Washington Nalls Jackson of Ardmore, Oklahoma; sister-in-law, Faye Washington of Del Valle, Texas; several nephews; numerous cousins; and the Ament family who embraced her as one of their own.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, Aug 19th, from 6-8 pm. at Harrell Funeral Home in Austin located at 4435 Frontier Trail (South Lamar and Ben White)or you may call for directions at 512-443-1366. Graveside services will be held on Wednesday, August 20th, at 9:30am at Oakwood Cemetary, located at MLK and I-35. Following at 11:30am, please join Charlotte's Celebration of Life at the First United Methodist Church, 1201 Main Street, Bastop. The phone number is 512-303-5072. Reception will follow.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to MD Anderson Cancer Center at www2.mdanderson.org or 1-800-525-5841. Harrell Funeral Home Austin, TX 512-443-1366
Tuesday, August 19, 2003