Obituary: Margaret Jeanette Grace

November 6, 1936 – December 28, 2025

Margaret Jeanette Grace, 89, passed away Sunday, December 28, 2025, at Indian Creek Healthcare Center in Corydon.

Born November 6, 1936, in Lawrence County, she was the daughter of Charles Everett and Alice Marie (Flinn) Taylor.  Margaret was previously married to Charles Fox, and he preceded her in death.  She married James Wesley Grace, Sr., on March 30, 2001, and he preceded her in death on July 23, 2017.

Margaret attended Living Waters Church of God.  She was a homemaker and loved taking care of kids.

Surviving are her grandchildren, who were raised as her children, Jeffrey (Miranda) Salyer of Orleans, Brooke Collins of Orleans, and Annie Salyer of Orleans; great-grandchildren, Magan, Allison, Charlie, Dryver, Wynter, Ryver, Madison, Lilly, Emma, Maverick, Layton, and Bayley; and siblings, Rose Grace of Mitchell, Lena “Cricket” Tanksley of Mitchell, Frank Taylor of Ellettsville, and Randy Taylor of Cape Coral, Florida.

Her parents, husbands, daughter, Martha Ann Krenke Allen; five brothers; and three sisters, preceded her in death.

Funeral service will be at 1:00 p.m. Friday, January 2, in the Memorial Chapel of Chastain Funeral Home & Cremation Center with Pastor Teresa Reynolds officiating.  Burial will be in Mitchell Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 11:00 a.m. until the service on Friday at the funeral home.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.chastainfuneralhome.com