The funeral for Bessie Stone Hobson, 88, of 410 Fifth St., Martinsville, who died Feb. 14, 2010, at Memorial Hospital in Martinsville, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul High Street Baptist Church with the Rev. William Shackleford Sr. officiating. Burial will be in the Hobson-Williams family cemetery on Whispering Pine Road, Axton.
The family will receive friends at the church for a half-hour before the service Thursday and other times at the home on Fifth Street.
She was born in Axton on April 11, 1921, to Salem Stone and Mary Hairston Stone. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Hobson.
She was a member of St. Paul High Street Baptist Church, where she was in the senior choir, Hamilin Worker Ministry, a Missionary and on the usher board.
She worked as a sales associate at J.C. Penney for 25 years.
Surviving are one daughter, Marvina Edwards of Grand Prairie, Texas; one son, Johannes Hobson of Roanoke; a sister, Hazel Rainey of Marlboro, Md.; one brother, Donald Stone of Martinsville; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Hairston Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family will receive friends at the church for a half-hour before the service Thursday and other times at the home on Fifth Street.
She was born in Axton on April 11, 1921, to Salem Stone and Mary Hairston Stone. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Hobson.
She was a member of St. Paul High Street Baptist Church, where she was in the senior choir, Hamilin Worker Ministry, a Missionary and on the usher board.
She worked as a sales associate at J.C. Penney for 25 years.
Surviving are one daughter, Marvina Edwards of Grand Prairie, Texas; one son, Johannes Hobson of Roanoke; a sister, Hazel Rainey of Marlboro, Md.; one brother, Donald Stone of Martinsville; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Hairston Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The funeral for Bessie Stone Hobson, 88, of 410 Fifth St., Martinsville, who died Feb. 14, 2010, at Memorial Hospital in Martinsville, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul High Street Baptist Church with the Rev. William Shackleford Sr. officiating. Burial will be in the Hobson-Williams family cemetery on Whispering Pine Road, Axton.
The family will receive friends at the church for a half-hour before the service Thursday and other times at the home on Fifth Street.
She was born in Axton on April 11, 1921, to Salem Stone and Mary Hairston Stone. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Hobson.
She was a member of St. Paul High Street Baptist Church, where she was in the senior choir, Hamilin Worker Ministry, a Missionary and on the usher board.
She worked as a sales associate at J.C. Penney for 25 years.
Surviving are one daughter, Marvina Edwards of Grand Prairie, Texas; one son, Johannes Hobson of Roanoke; a sister, Hazel Rainey of Marlboro, Md.; one brother, Donald Stone of Martinsville; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Hairston Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family will receive friends at the church for a half-hour before the service Thursday and other times at the home on Fifth Street.
She was born in Axton on April 11, 1921, to Salem Stone and Mary Hairston Stone. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Hobson.
She was a member of St. Paul High Street Baptist Church, where she was in the senior choir, Hamilin Worker Ministry, a Missionary and on the usher board.
She worked as a sales associate at J.C. Penney for 25 years.
Surviving are one daughter, Marvina Edwards of Grand Prairie, Texas; one son, Johannes Hobson of Roanoke; a sister, Hazel Rainey of Marlboro, Md.; one brother, Donald Stone of Martinsville; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Hairston Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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