Virginia Hunter

Mrs. Mable Virginia Stevens Hunter, 75, of West Rd., died Thursday morning at her daughter’s home in Lincoln County.

Mrs. Hunter was born in the Tyrone Community and had lived there all her life. She was the widow of Everette Franklin “Rady” Hunter, and was the daughter of the late Sanders and Mable Silvey Stevens. She retired from the Wilkes County Board of Education, having worked in the nutrition department. She was an active member of the Phillips Mill Baptist Church, was a WMU member until 2006, and had taught Sunday School for 27 years. Mrs. Hunter was preceded in death by her sister, Helen S. Lamar.

Mrs. Hunter is survived by two sons, Franklin S. Hunter. And wife Melissa, of Washington, and John Hunter, also of Washington; one daughter, Marcia H. Kirkland, and husband Perry, of Lincolnton; four grandchildren, Tara (Ronald) Johnson, Mandy (Scoty) Roberson, and Kimber Kirkland, of Lincolnton, and Jody Hunter, of Washington; six great grandchildren, Cheyene Keller, Tristan Johnson, Tyler Johnson, Meagan Hunter, Brittan Johnson, and Bailyn Roberson.

Funeral services will be Saturday, November 21, 2009, at 11:00 am at Phillips Mill Baptist Church with Rev. John King, Rev. Lee Hunter, and Rev. Jamie Callaway officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.

Active pallbearers will be Marshall King, Bobby Standard, Manuel Hunter, Ray Moore, Gary Hopkins, and Shelton West. Honorary pallbearers will be Morrison Maxwell, Corrie Maxwell, Henry McAvoy, and members of the Adult Women III Sunday School Class of Phillips Mill.

The family will receive friends Friday evening from 6:30-8:30 at Hopkins Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or to the Phillips Mill Baptist Church.

Hopkins Funeral Home.