Mrs. Geneva Applewhite Stanley, age 85 was born April 9, 1927. Mrs. Stanley died peacefully at her home on January 30, 2013. She was the youngest daughter to the late Geneva Cheatham Applewhite and Robert Lawrence Applewhite of Halifax, NC. She was married to Dr. John Hampton Stanley for over sixty years and to this marriage was born two daughters.
Mrs. Stanley graduated from Weldon High School in 1944 and continued her education graduating from Queens College of Charlotte, NC. She taught school in Pine Hurst and Southern Pines, NC and later in North Charleston, SC and Greenville, SC. It was following her teaching career that she settled in Woodland, NC in 1955 where she then soon became a mother and homemaker.
Preceding her in death other than her parents are her two sisters, Ida Shaw Barber and Elizabeth Grant.
Survivors include her husband, Dr. John H. Stanley of the home, two daughters, Geneva ‘Gen’ Harrell and her husband Stevie and Dixie Harrell and her husband Paul all of Jackson, NC. Also surviving are six grandchildren, John, Hunter, London, Arch, Brodie and Davis Harrell.
Date: Friday, February 1, 2013
Time: 7:00 am - 8:30 pm
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2013
Time: 3:00 pm
Location:
Woodland United Methodist Church in Woodland, North Carolina
Garrett-Sykes
Funeral Service
Ahoskie
205 NC Highway 42 West
Ahoskie, NC 27910
Garrett-Sykes
Funeral Service
Rich Square
116 Short Street
Rich Square, NC 27869
Garrett-Sykes
Murfreesboro
Chapel
314 West Main Street
Murfreesboro, NC 27855
Garrett-Sykes
Aulander
Chapel
117 South Commerce Street
Aulander, North Carolina 27805
Karen Cole posted on 1/31/13
My thoughts and prayers are with each of you,she is at peace now,a fine lady whom I will never forget....Karen Cole