Thursday, March 20, 2025
Mary Bearman, 72, passed away Dec. 26, 2024, in Granbury.
A service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 13 at Martin's Funeral Home. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Interment will be at Granbury Cemetery. Services are in the care of Martin's Funeral Home.
Mary Alice was born into the loving arms of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCarty June 9, 1952, in Marlin. Following a family tradition, she was named after two of her grandmothers.
Mary went to public schools in Granbury and graduated in 1971. She played the flute in the high school band and served as the first-chair flautist in her senior year. She was active in Rainbow Girls and attended the Chautauqua summer program in New York in 1973. She and two other local teens were selected and sent by Kings’ Daughters and Sons. Next, she enrolled at Tarleton State University where she worked on her studies and took part in Wainwright Debutante’s Parades. After two years at Tarleton, she transferred to Stephen F. Austin State University, where she worked as a dispatcher for the campus police. She completed her studies there in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in clothing and textiles and a minor in math. Upon graduation she began working for American Handicrafts, a Houston retail store. Through the help of Cotton Whitehead, her mother’s cousin, she got a job with Pitts Oil, doing property research on ownership and mineral rights.
Mary loved to travel. She went to Japan and Hong Kong in 1983 and took several long-distance trips in later years.
In 1989 she married Harry Bearman and honeymooned in Greece. She worked as a math teacher at Fort Worth’s Eastern Hills High School. She and Harry divorced in 2006; they had no children together. Mary went to work for CarMax until she moved back to Granbury to care for her elderly and unwell mother, who passed into heaven in 2023. Her love for cats became a family trait that lasted until she went home to be with our loving Lord.
Mary Alice McCarty Bearman was a kind and generous person who was a joy to know. Her family misses her unique personality of gracious loving and faithful care to those who were blessed to know her.
She is survived by two brothers, Charles Thomas McCarty, Jr. and spouse Lynne of Granbury and Clay Johnson McCarty of Pearland. She has one nephew, Jonathan McCarty, his wife Victoria and children Jovan, Jethro and Mirah in Manchester, Maryland. Also remaining are several cousins in various states.
