Martha Anne (Stephens) Clapp

Martha Anne “Stephens” Clapp, 87, of Augusta, GA died November 24, 2022 while under hospice care at the Pruitt Health - Augusta Hills Health Care Facility.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Tuesday, November 29, 2022 in the chapel of McMullen Funeral Home and Crematory with a private burial at Ft. Mitchell National Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home, 3874 Gentian Blvd, Columbus, GA 31907.

Anne was born January 22, 1935 in Manchester, GA to the late Phil and Martha Stephens. She graduated a year early from Columbus High School and married the love of her life, Frederick “Fred” Clapp, at age 17, in 1952. She traveled all over the United States from Georgia to California to Alaska, while raising her two sons and supporting her husband’s career as an Army aviator. Their final assignment with the Army before returning to the United States to retire was in Izmir, Turkey. They returned to Columbus, GA, in 1969, where Anne would live until the summer of 2022, except for the two years they spent in Iran from 1975 to 1977. During those two years, Fred was in charge of training the Iranian Army to fly and maintain American-made helicopters. In Columbus, she remained active in the local Military Officers Association, the Parents Association at Brookstone School, the Windsor Park Garden Club, and the local American Red Cross volunteering as a Grey Lady aide in hospitals throughout the Columbus area. Anne was a true partner in her husband’s military service and a patient, loving, and nurturing mother to
her two boys.

Other than her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, LTC (R) Frederick Leray Clapp.

She is survived by her two sons and their wives, COL (R) Frederick and Robin Clapp and COL (R) Timothy and Nibras Clapp; her brother Philip Stephens and his wife, Joyce; six grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.A Special thanks to the staff at The Oaks at Grove Park in Columbus, Georgia and Thrive at Augusta and Pruitt Health - Augusta Hills in Augusta, Georgia for the loving care they provided Mrs. Clapp over the past 3 and a half years.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Alzheimer's Association at
https://act.alz.org in memory of Mrs. Clapp.