"Dear Sweet Michelle, we will forever treasure your memory, loving you always and never forgetting you. Your presence and beautiful smile will be dearly missed. Marti & family, you are in our hearts & prayers,,we love you, Fay & Family"
In loving memory of
Michelle Ashley McGrady
December 12, 1984 - September 27, 2020
Michelle Ashley Mcgrady was born on December 12, 1984 in Niagara Falls, New York at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center to Michael Keith Mcgrady and Marti Lynn Johnson. Michelle was baptized at Mt Erie Baptist Church in Niagara Falls, New York and as a teenager attended New Creations Church of San Diego California. She obtained her elementary education at Kennedy Elementary School, her middle school education at Ray Kroc Middle School, graduating from Lincoln High School, earning honor roll and numerous accolades throughout her entire educational career, including the Presidents Educational Award and Avid award every year. The city of San Diego Special Commendation Award, Horation Alger California Scholar, The Golden Ankh Award, California Department of Education Honors at Graduation Award, Aaron Price Fellows Program. Thurgood Marshall's Achievers Society, completing high school with a full scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley.
Michelle was such a loving person with an enormous heart and was fiercely protective of her loved ones. Michelle also was an awesome mother to her only biological child Larry Marquis Mckeever and she raised his two brothers as her own, Quameer Mckeever and Aldashawn Mckeever. Michelle loved working with children with disabilities who she treated as her own with kindness, empathy and dignity.
Michelle was preceded in death by her paternal grandmother Elizabeth Mcgrady. Left to cherish her precious memories are: her sons Larry, Quamer, and Aldashawn; her mother Marti Bryant; father Michael Mcgrady; siblings: Cedrick Bryant, Derrick Bryant, Ceara Harris and Michael Davis; grandmother Janice Johnson; nieces: Tahjanae, Kymora, and Bentley Bryant; nephews: Jayden and Oshae Johnson, Derrick II, and Roman Bryant; uncle Ronnie Ward; aunt Whitni Eatmon; and a host of cousins, step-sisters and friends. She will never be forgotten.
REVELATION 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying neither shall there be any more pain. For former things are passed away.