Tyrone News
By PRISCILLA MAXWELL Please call 706-678-7657
Thanks to Mary Jane McAvoy, Benji and Sherrie McAvoy for the pretty poinsettias of different sizes placed in Phillips Mill Baptist Church Sunday in honor of Christmas and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. .Coming up this Sunday morning, December 23, Phillips Mill Baptist Church plans its annual Christmas program with the children of the church and adult choir presenting singing and acting out the story of Jesus' birth, using Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, shepherds, wisemen, and angels. All members and interested friends who can are cordially invited to attend as we recall again "The reason for the season" together. That's at 11 a.m. .Sincere sympathy is extended to the family of Irene Patterson Swann who passed away Wednesday, December 12, at Washington Manor Personal Care Home. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frazier Patterson of the Metasville community; and widow of Henry Swann who passed away in 2003. She was a first cousin of Morrison and Corrie Maxwell's mother, the late Mary Poss (Mrs. Lee) Maxwell, who wrote the Tyrone news before me. Her sister is Miriam Poss (Mrs. Malcolm) Durham, 94, of Bethesda Baptist Church in Union Point. Their mother, the late Lora Lee Patterson (Mrs. Corrie) Poss and Irene's daddy were brother and sister. .Sincere sympathy is extended to the family of Dorothy Nunn Hardy, 81, who passed away Wednesday, December 12, 2007, at Wilkes Health Care in Washington. She would have been 82 on December 27. She grew up in Phillips Mill Baptist Church, daughter of the late George and Eva Tucker Nunn. She was a graduate of Alexander H. Stephens Institute in Crawfordville. She was the widow of Tom Hardy. They were both active members of Beaverdam Baptist church for many years. They were blessed with three children, Joe and his wife Deborah Seymour Hardy, Louise and her husband, Pete Grimaud, Audrey and her husband, Henry Barnett, all of Wilkes County, plus some grandchildren. Among other survivors are a brother, Warren Nunn, and his wife, Lois Lunceford Nunn of Washington, sister, Mildred and her husband, Dan McAvoy, and sisterin law, Gussie Hardy (Mrs. Thomas) McAvoy, 93, all of Phillips Mill. Dorothy was a twin to the late Miss Doris Nunn of Phillips Mill. Many in our area have fond memories growing up with and knowing the Nunn family. I would like to mention the other Nunn children also: the late Mattie (Mrs. Earl) Swann, mother of Billy Swann of Union Point, the late Janie Lee Rorie Karel, mother of Eva Bufford of Atlanta and Miss Emily Rorie of Echols Personal Care Home in Rayle; and the brother and sister who drowned when Dorothy and Doris were small, Tom and Louise. They had an aunt, the late Miss Bertha Tucker of Crawfordville, who was a Methodist missionary who served overseas in Korea and other parts. This is written with a lot of love and respect. Priscilla Johnson Maxwell. .Dan and Mildred Nunn McAvoy's children, Dorothy Ann and Jimmy Saxon, Donnie and Claudia McAvoy, and their daughter Tammy, came Saturday and carried their mother to the funeral of her sister, Dorothy Nunn Hardy, who passed away on Wednesday. Donnie stayed with his dad so brother Jerry could be a pallbearer. Other visitors included Rev. Robert Rayner, niece, Audrey Barnett, and friend, Gloria Hary. They appreciate everyone's thoughtfulness. .Bes Moore, music director at Phillips Mill, plans to take the children's choir around Christmas caroling Thursday night, December 20, leaving the church at 5 p.m.
.I will always cherish sweet memories of working with Irene and Dorothy at Almar, making raincoats together in the heat seal department back in the 1950s and 1960s. Anne (Mrs. Wood) Hardy was Irene's partner putting on collars. .I would like to wish each reader and your family a safe and Merry Christmas. As we recall "the reason for the season" is to celebrate the birthday of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, by showing our love for Him and each other, a time for true forgiveness in families. I appreciate all the nice Christmas cards Morrison and I have received from far and near. You never know who all you touch in life. Our first Christmas card received said so much, written by Vickie J. Kuyer, "My Christmas List of Blessings," which fit my thoughts so well. I would like to share. "My Christmas list is more than just a way to keep track of the special people God has brought into my life to love. It's like a treasured scrapbook filled with pleasant memories. Of all the times God's answered prayer through friends and family. Every name's a touchstone that leads to a place and time, where God has used another's heart to reach out and touch mine. It may have happened years ago or even yesterday, but every person on my list has changed my life some way. Through simple conversation, a warm hug, or a shared meal, every person on my list has helped me grow or heal, or laugh or love or smile. The blessings never end as God allows our paths to cross as family and friends. So please know that this greeting is more than a Christmas wish. It's a thank you card to God for putting on my list each and every one whose name I've come to hold so dear -- those who've shown me Christmas joy each day of the year." .Merry Christmas - Priscilla.
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