Knoxville, Tennessee
Marcia Batchelor Cartledge
1945 — 2024
Marcia Batchelor Cartledge passed away at her home in Fountain City on January 4, 2024. Marcia was the daughter, and only child, of John Arthur Batchelor and Ruth Marie Hadler. She was born on September 16, 1945, in Mobile, AL and grew up in Greensburg, Indiana. After graduation from Greensburg Community High School, she attended Ball State Teachers College and Weaver Airline School. In 1964, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work for Delta Airlines. There she met the love of her life, John Benjamin (Ben) Cartledge. They married in 1967 beginning a 56 year-long bond. Her husband's US Army service took her to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland and Alexandria, Virginia. They resettled in the...