10/20/2005
OBITUARIES Mrs. Lona Mae Troxler Wicker
GIBSONVILLE — Mrs. Lona Mae Troxler Wicker , age 94, of 7457 Brooks Bridge Road, passed away at her home at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday, October 18, 2005.
A native of Alamance County, she was wife of the late Slocum M. Wicker , and daughter of the late Robert Banks and Daisy Etta Smithey Troxler . She was a former employee of May Hosiery and she farmed with her husband Slocum. She was a lifetime member of Shiloh United Methodist Church, where she formerly taught Sunday school and was a member of the church choir.
She is survived by sisters, Mrs. Mary Wade, Mrs. Irene Howerton and husband, Garland, and Mrs. Lora Wade and husband, Robert, all of Gibsonville; 43 nieces and nephews; and a special nephew, Pepper Wade and wife, Christy; and a great-niece, Holly Wade, who all made their home with her and cared for her.
She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; sisters, Alice Lewis, Estelle Troxler and Kate McMillan; brothers, Willie Troxler , Ira Troxler , David B.C. Troxler , Wilbert Troxler , Robert Troxler , Edward Troxler and Howard Troxler .
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Shiloh United Methodist Church by the Rev. Ronnie Richard Dawson, pastor of the church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Wicker will remain at Lowe Funeral Home and Crematory until taken to the church to lie in state 30 minutes prior to the funeral service. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. today, and at other times at the home.
Memorials may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of Alamance-Caswell, 914 Chapel Hill Road, Burlington, N.C. 27215 or to Shiloh United Methodist Church Cemetery Fund, 4718 N.C. 87 North, Gibsonville, N.C. 27249,
Condolences may be sent to the family at
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