Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
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BurialAlamance Memorial Park, 4039 S Church St, Alamance County, North Carolina [25338]
MarriageJan 11, 1941, Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina [25333]
Obituary Online notes for Minnie Lea KERNODLE
10/2/2009
Minnie Lea Kernodle Smithey
ELON, N.C. — Minnie Lea Kernodle Smithey, age 88, formerly of Elon Ossipee Road, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at White Oak Manor. She was a native of Alamance County and the wife of the late Clyde Milton Smithey Sr.
Minnie Lea retired after 40 years from Burlington Industries, J. Spencer Love Plant. She was a longtime member of Altamahaw Baptist Church and a former member of the choir. Minnie Lea taught Sunday School and worked in the church day care for many years. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her faithfulness to her family and her Lord will be a living testimony to all who knew and loved Minnie Lea.
Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Woody Montgomery, of Denton, and Peggy and Vernon Moore, of Gibsonville; sons and daughter-in-law, David and Diane Smithey, of Efland, and C. Milton Smithey Jr., of Gibsonville; 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; sister, Edith Rudd, of Elon; and a brother, Melvin Kernodle, of Tennessee. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde; parents, Walter Lawrence and Bertha Loy Kernodle; and brothers, Leonard and Wilbur Kernodle.
The funeral service to celebrate her life will be held on Sunday, October 4, 2009, at 2 p.m. at the Lowe Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Walter Jones and the burial will follow at Alamance Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. on Saturday at the funeral home and at other times at the home of the granddaughter, Shari Gray on Dorsett Street in Burlington.
Memorials may be made to the donor’s favorite charity
You may sign the online register book at
www.lowefuneralhome.com [20915]
Minnie Lea Kernodle Smithey
ELON, N.C. — Minnie Lea Kernodle Smithey, age 88, formerly of Elon Ossipee Road, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at White Oak Manor. She was a native of Alamance County and the wife of the late Clyde Milton Smithey Sr.
Minnie Lea retired after 40 years from Burlington Industries, J. Spencer Love Plant. She was a longtime member of Altamahaw Baptist Church and a former member of the choir. Minnie Lea taught Sunday School and worked in the church day care for many years. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her faithfulness to her family and her Lord will be a living testimony to all who knew and loved Minnie Lea.
Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Woody Montgomery, of Denton, and Peggy and Vernon Moore, of Gibsonville; sons and daughter-in-law, David and Diane Smithey, of Efland, and C. Milton Smithey Jr., of Gibsonville; 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; sister, Edith Rudd, of Elon; and a brother, Melvin Kernodle, of Tennessee. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde; parents, Walter Lawrence and Bertha Loy Kernodle; and brothers, Leonard and Wilbur Kernodle.
The funeral service to celebrate her life will be held on Sunday, October 4, 2009, at 2 p.m. at the Lowe Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Walter Jones and the burial will follow at Alamance Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. on Saturday at the funeral home and at other times at the home of the granddaughter, Shari Gray on Dorsett Street in Burlington.
Memorials may be made to the donor’s favorite charity
You may sign the online register book at
www.lowefuneralhome.com [20915]