Margaret McGraw 1938-2023

Margie was born Feb. 16, 1938, in Youngstown, a daughter of the late Stephen and Anna Stefanik Baytos, immigrants from Czechoslovakia. She grew up in Lansingville, on Craiger Street, part of the Craiger Street Crew.

She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School Class of 1956 and attended Youngstown College.

She married her husband, George McGraw, on Dec. 12, 1963. Sadly, he passed in 1990 after 27 years together.

Margie was of the Catholic faith and grew up attending St. Mathias Church, and later was a member of St. Charles Church in Boardman. She went to church every Sunday and participated in Friday adoration at St. Charles Parish.

She worked for Goodyear tires in downtown Youngstown from the 1950s to the 1960s, was a homemaker and worked at Lynn’s Books and Miniatures, and then as a dispatcher for Ludt’s Towing.

Margie moved to Bath, N.Y., and then to Venice, Fla., to be with her daughter Shirley’s family, with whom she made her home.

She leaves to cherish her memory, her children, raising them in Boardman, son, David G. (Lisa) McGraw of Medina; daughter, Shirley McGraw (Douglas) Draper of Venice, Fla.; and stepson, D. Scott Van Horn of Elizabethtown, Pa.; her grandchildren, Arika McGraw of Hibbing, Minn., Lauren McGraw (Austin Jones) of Kerrville, Texas and Alan Draper of Venice, Fla.; and great-granddaughter, Vesta Jones of Kerrville, Texas. Margie also leaves behind longtime friend and neighbor, Beverly Bowman, as well as many nieces and nephews.

Besides her parents and her husband, Margie was preceded in death by her companion, John Blue Sr., who died in 2016 after 25 years together; and her brothers and sisters, John Baytos, Stephen Bajtosh, Anne Reese, William Baytosh and Eleanor Kollar.

Family and friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 17, 2023, at the Fox Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman, and from 10 to 10:50 a.m. Saturday, March 18, 2023, at St. Charles Church, 7345 Westview Drive, Boardman.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, celebrated by the Very Rev. Monsignor John A. Zuraw, followed by interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

The family wishes to thank the staff at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla., as well as Tidewell Hospice Care of Venice, Fla.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Edward J. Fox and Sons Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman, OH 44512. Family and friends of Margie may visit www.foxfuneralhome.org to view this obituary and to leave condolences for the McGraw family.

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