Ninety-eight years to the day after she was born on November 5, 1917, Exam Josephine Haney passed away at 12:45 PM at her home in Burnsville. Her daughter-in-law, Donna Lewis of Arden, her son James Lewis, and his wife Helen were at her side.
Exam was born to Jack and Mamie Manick in Old Fort, NC. She was the eldest of eight children – all deceased. She graduated first in her class at Old Fort High School and then obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Asheville Normal College.
She received her given name from her Mother’s cousin, Lillian Exum Clement, who was an early champion of women’s rights, a successful lawyer, and state legislator – the first in the south. Exam was taught to spell her name incorrectly long before she went to school. We are told that she could read soon after she could talk, and she stuck with spelling her name, “Exam,” until her death.
She attended the Old Fort First Baptist Church on and off from the age of five as well as periods of membership in the First Baptist Church of Burnsville and at Harmony Grove Baptist Church in McDowell County. She taught Sunday school from her teenage years until age 93. Aside from her family and students, her churches were her central interest.
She married Frank H. Lewis, Sr. of Huntdale, NC in 1938 and bore him three sons, Frank H. Lewis, Jr. deceased, John A. Lewis, deceased, and James A. Lewis.
Exam taught at several public schools in Yancey County, but she spent most of her career teaching fourth grade at Micaville. Her students learned to love school because she knew how to engage their imaginations through role playing and storytelling. Her greatest gift was helping them learn to respect and to cooperate with each other as equals. We are told by her former students that her classroom was the happy place in their childhood memories.
In later life Exam married a life-long friend, Pat Haney, deceased, of Glenwood, NC. During her last fourteen years, she made her home with her son James in Burnsville.
Life was kind to her and she had many wonderful friends. Her natural ability with public speaking and acting created a warm place for her in the cultural and religious life of the community. She had a talent with prose and poetry that translated well into the spoken word, and she was an amateur actress of unusual talent. Her first love though, was poetry. Even in her final years the muse would sometimes possess her and she would recite the poetry she had learned in her youth. A favorite poem was “The House by the Side of The Road,” by Sam Walter Foss.
We believe that Foss’s work best describes her character. Those of us who knew her well will always remember her as a peerless example of unconditional love and compassion. We thank God that she was our Mother.
Funeral services will be held at 3PM Sunday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. Pastor Tommy James will officiate. Burial will be in the Holcombe Cemetery.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
Exam was born to Jack and Mamie Manick in Old Fort, NC. She was the eldest of eight children – all deceased. She graduated first in her class at Old Fort High School and then obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Asheville Normal College.
She received her given name from her Mother’s cousin, Lillian Exum Clement, who was an early champion of women’s rights, a successful lawyer, and state legislator – the first in the south. Exam was taught to spell her name incorrectly long before she went to school. We are told that she could read soon after she could talk, and she stuck with spelling her name, “Exam,” until her death.
She attended the Old Fort First Baptist Church on and off from the age of five as well as periods of membership in the First Baptist Church of Burnsville and at Harmony Grove Baptist Church in McDowell County. She taught Sunday school from her teenage years until age 93. Aside from her family and students, her churches were her central interest.
She married Frank H. Lewis, Sr. of Huntdale, NC in 1938 and bore him three sons, Frank H. Lewis, Jr. deceased, John A. Lewis, deceased, and James A. Lewis.
Exam taught at several public schools in Yancey County, but she spent most of her career teaching fourth grade at Micaville. Her students learned to love school because she knew how to engage their imaginations through role playing and storytelling. Her greatest gift was helping them learn to respect and to cooperate with each other as equals. We are told by her former students that her classroom was the happy place in their childhood memories.
In later life Exam married a life-long friend, Pat Haney, deceased, of Glenwood, NC. During her last fourteen years, she made her home with her son James in Burnsville.
Life was kind to her and she had many wonderful friends. Her natural ability with public speaking and acting created a warm place for her in the cultural and religious life of the community. She had a talent with prose and poetry that translated well into the spoken word, and she was an amateur actress of unusual talent. Her first love though, was poetry. Even in her final years the muse would sometimes possess her and she would recite the poetry she had learned in her youth. A favorite poem was “The House by the Side of The Road,” by Sam Walter Foss.
We believe that Foss’s work best describes her character. Those of us who knew her well will always remember her as a peerless example of unconditional love and compassion. We thank God that she was our Mother.
Funeral services will be held at 3PM Sunday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. Pastor Tommy James will officiate. Burial will be in the Holcombe Cemetery.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
Ninety-eight years to the day after she was born on November 5, 1917, Exam Josephine Haney passed away at 12:45 PM at her home in Burnsville. Her daughter-in-law, Donna Lewis of Arden, her son James Lewis, and his wife Helen were at her side.
Exam was born to Jack and Mamie Manick in Old Fort, NC. She was the eldest of eight children – all deceased. She graduated first in her class at Old Fort High School and then obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Asheville Normal College.
She received her given name from her Mother’s cousin, Lillian Exum Clement, who was an early champion of women’s rights, a successful lawyer, and state legislator – the first in the south. Exam was taught to spell her name incorrectly long before she went to school. We are told that she could read soon after she could talk, and she stuck with spelling her name, “Exam,” until her death.
She attended the Old Fort First Baptist Church on and off from the age of five as well as periods of membership in the First Baptist Church of Burnsville and at Harmony Grove Baptist Church in McDowell County. She taught Sunday school from her teenage years until age 93. Aside from her family and students, her churches were her central interest.
She married Frank H. Lewis, Sr. of Huntdale, NC in 1938 and bore him three sons, Frank H. Lewis, Jr. deceased, John A. Lewis, deceased, and James A. Lewis.
Exam taught at several public schools in Yancey County, but she spent most of her career teaching fourth grade at Micaville. Her students learned to love school because she knew how to engage their imaginations through role playing and storytelling. Her greatest gift was helping them learn to respect and to cooperate with each other as equals. We are told by her former students that her classroom was the happy place in their childhood memories.
In later life Exam married a life-long friend, Pat Haney, deceased, of Glenwood, NC. During her last fourteen years, she made her home with her son James in Burnsville.
Life was kind to her and she had many wonderful friends. Her natural ability with public speaking and acting created a warm place for her in the cultural and religious life of the community. She had a talent with prose and poetry that translated well into the spoken word, and she was an amateur actress of unusual talent. Her first love though, was poetry. Even in her final years the muse would sometimes possess her and she would recite the poetry she had learned in her youth. A favorite poem was “The House by the Side of The Road,” by Sam Walter Foss.
We believe that Foss’s work best describes her character. Those of us who knew her well will always remember her as a peerless example of unconditional love and compassion. We thank God that she was our Mother.
Funeral services will be held at 3PM Sunday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. Pastor Tommy James will officiate. Burial will be in the Holcombe Cemetery.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
Exam was born to Jack and Mamie Manick in Old Fort, NC. She was the eldest of eight children – all deceased. She graduated first in her class at Old Fort High School and then obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Asheville Normal College.
She received her given name from her Mother’s cousin, Lillian Exum Clement, who was an early champion of women’s rights, a successful lawyer, and state legislator – the first in the south. Exam was taught to spell her name incorrectly long before she went to school. We are told that she could read soon after she could talk, and she stuck with spelling her name, “Exam,” until her death.
She attended the Old Fort First Baptist Church on and off from the age of five as well as periods of membership in the First Baptist Church of Burnsville and at Harmony Grove Baptist Church in McDowell County. She taught Sunday school from her teenage years until age 93. Aside from her family and students, her churches were her central interest.
She married Frank H. Lewis, Sr. of Huntdale, NC in 1938 and bore him three sons, Frank H. Lewis, Jr. deceased, John A. Lewis, deceased, and James A. Lewis.
Exam taught at several public schools in Yancey County, but she spent most of her career teaching fourth grade at Micaville. Her students learned to love school because she knew how to engage their imaginations through role playing and storytelling. Her greatest gift was helping them learn to respect and to cooperate with each other as equals. We are told by her former students that her classroom was the happy place in their childhood memories.
In later life Exam married a life-long friend, Pat Haney, deceased, of Glenwood, NC. During her last fourteen years, she made her home with her son James in Burnsville.
Life was kind to her and she had many wonderful friends. Her natural ability with public speaking and acting created a warm place for her in the cultural and religious life of the community. She had a talent with prose and poetry that translated well into the spoken word, and she was an amateur actress of unusual talent. Her first love though, was poetry. Even in her final years the muse would sometimes possess her and she would recite the poetry she had learned in her youth. A favorite poem was “The House by the Side of The Road,” by Sam Walter Foss.
We believe that Foss’s work best describes her character. Those of us who knew her well will always remember her as a peerless example of unconditional love and compassion. We thank God that she was our Mother.
Funeral services will be held at 3PM Sunday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. Pastor Tommy James will officiate. Burial will be in the Holcombe Cemetery.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
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