MOULTRIE — Carolyn Grantham Booth, an outstanding basketball player both for Norman Park High School and for the Moore’s All American Red Heads, died Sunday, November 12, 2023, just one day after her 75th birthday.

Services for Mrs. Booth will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at Norman Park Baptist Church, with burial in Norman Park Cemetery.

Booth’s career at Norman Park High and with the professional touring Red Heads team earned her induction into the Colquitt County Sports Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class in 2000.

And as a member of the Red Heads, she earned a brick paver with her named engraved on it at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn., when it opened in 1999.

Carolyn Grantham learned to shoot a basketball in her back yard in Norman Park, taking aim at a goal attached to the side of a barn.

She began playing competitively as a seventh-grader under the direction of coach C.B. Massey.

She did not play as a ninth-grader, but started the next three seasons for the Trojanettes as a 6-foot forward, scoring more than 2,100 points while playing for coach Herbert Houston.

She set the school scoring record when she put in 54 points against the Doerun High team coached by J.C. Fincher, also a member of the Sports Hall of Fame.

She was named to The Moultrie Observer’s county all-star team for two years, received the John R. Lindsey Athletic Award and sportsmanship, most valuable player, most athletic, free throw shooting and most outstanding player awards while playing for the Trojanettes.

She also was an outstanding tennis player and reached the Class C state tennis tournament twice playing doubles with Melanie Guy.

After graduating from Norman Park in 1966, she joined Moore’s All American Red Heads, a team often referred to as “the girls Globetrotters.”

In a publicity photograph, Carolyn Grantham, shown in her Red Heads uniform, was described as “A lass with class” and “A MISS that can HIT.”

The team traveled in a long, white limousine and played against men’s teams — and by men’s rules — while entertaining crowds throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada during the 1966-1967 season.

After that one season, she returned to Colquitt County, where she married Cody Booth and raised two daughters.

She was a member of the All American Red Heads Alumni Association and played recreation church basketball for many years in Colquitt County.

During her career as a bookkeeper, she worked for C.O. Smith and Co., Bridgeport Plumbing Products and Colquitt Agriculture Services in Doerun.

Among her survivors is her brother Julian Grantham, the former girls basketball coach at Norman Park and Colquitt County high schools who also is a member of the Colquitt County Sports Hall of Fame.

Her husband, Cody Booth, died in 2018.

Mrs. Booth also is survived by daughters Angela Booth Pezent, a registered nurse, and Jennifer Booth, a dental hygienist; four grandsons; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Baker Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.