Tammy Estep, 54, called her father a “doer” and the hardest worker she knew.
Marcia Savage was a retired bank teller. She was very active at their church and loved being there as often as she could, said granddaughter Katherine Savage, 27. She had a beautiful voice and was always singing, especially gospel. Estep said her mother loved cooking for her family, making an awesome turkey for Thanksgiving and known for her banana pudding.
Condolences posted on social media remembered the couple as generous, kind and humble.
John and Katherine spent many years of their childhood living in a trailer behind their grandparents’ house, and John and his father had been staying with his grandparents for the last few years. Even with some of the recent storms to hit their community, trees fell further up in the yard and “we had not had anything like that happen” before, he said.
Over decades, the house would fill with family for Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus Easter egg hunts in the large yard.
A GoFundMe organized for their funeral expenses says they were survived by their son and daughter, along with four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Katherine Savage said her grandparents, especially Marcia, always offered to help her with her own three sons and would see the boys almost every day.
“I haven’t even told my boys yet because we don’t know how,” she said.
The two were teenage sweethearts and married for over 50 years. Estep said their love was “immediate, and it was everlasting.”
“They loved each other to their dying day,” John Savage said.
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