Feb. 24, 1939 – Aug. 15, 2019

MEADVILLE— Services for Charlie Wesley “C.W.” McCaa Jr., 80, of Meadville, who died Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, at Diversicare-Golden Living Center in Brookhaven, will be 1 p.m.  Monday at Sarepta Baptist Church in Meadville with the Rev. Web Armstrong officiating.
Burial will follow at the church cemetery under the direction of Franklin Funeral Home in Meadville.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home and from noon until service time Monday at the church.
Mr. McCaa was born Feb. 24, 1939, in Franklin County, the son of Charlie McCaa Sr. and Mittie Ezell McCaa.
C.W., as his friends called him, proudly served our nation as a soldier in the U.S. Army. He was a member of Sarepta Baptist Church and worked as a press operator at Croft Metals. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Mr. McCaa was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, James McCaa; two sisters, Dorothy Upton and Christine LeBlanc.
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Essie McCaa; one daughter, Theresa Cothren and husband, Rex, of Meadville; two sons, Curtis McCaa and wife, Sue, and Anthony McCaa and wife, Stephine, all of Meadville; four sisters, Maxine Foy, widow of James Foy, of Fayette, Betty McCaa, widow of, Clyde, of Texas, Mildred Rankin and husband, Patrick, of Madison, Alabama, and Billie Jean Freeman, widow of Dudley Freeman, of Golden Meadows, Louisiana; three brothers, Rayford McCaa of Fayette, Doyle McCaa and wife, Lula, of Summit, and Jim McCaa and wife, Georgia, of Zachary, Louisiana; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Pallbearers will be Simon Emfinger, Chad McCaa, Roland Herrin, Danny Ried, Daniel Sullivan and Matthew Sullivan.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at franklinfh.com.