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- The News Leader, Staunton, VA, Wednesday, 26 Dec 2009, p. 4, col. A
Obituaries
Mary G. Sellers
CHURCHVILLE Mary Jane (Gum) Sellers, 93, of Churchville, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009, in Loyalton of Staunton.
Born Nov. 4, 1916, at Meadow Dale, Highland County, she was the only child of Dennis arid Bessie Gum.
A 1937 graduate of Harrisonburg State Teachers College, she was a public school teacher for six years at Churchville High School, and a substitute teacher for many years at Churchville and Buffalo Gap high schools. She was a member of Loch Willow Presbyterian Church, serving in many capacities, including Sunday school teacher, president of the Women of the Church, chairman of District VI of the Lexington Presbytery, and president of the Women of the Church of the Presbytery. She received a life membership in the Women of the Church of Lexington Presbytery. Mrs. Sellers, the first woman elder of Loch Willow, served three terms as clerk of session. Loch Willow later granted her the status of elder emerita. She was a commissioner from the Lexington Presbytery to the Meeting of the Synod of Virginia and also to the General Assembly.
On Aug. 5, 1939, she married Whitfield Trimble Sellers, who preceded her in death on May 7, 2002. Surviving are: three children, Dennis Sellers and wife, Kay, of Churchville, Rebecca Lovegrove and husband, Buster, of Swoope, and Harry Sellers and wife, Beth, of Blue Ridge; five grandchildren, Michael Sellers and wife, Amber, Andrea Hull and husband, Chris, Whit Sellers, Meg Sellers and Caitie Sellers and husband, Hugh Browder; and one great-grandchild, Tyler Sellers.
A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Monday in Loch Willow Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Reed Hopkins officiating. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Bob Masincup, Sam Liggett, III, Chris Hull, Lyle Hull, Harry Crosby, John Ralston, Dan Stogdale and Vaughn Ashby. Honorary pallbearers will be Harold Armstrong, Cliff Stogdale, Denton Layman, Bruce Farquhar, Gibby Crummett, and members of the Churchville Senior Center.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Bear Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Churchville Senior Center, P. O. Box 69, Churchville, VA 24421 ; or to the Loch Willow Presbyterian Church Building Fund, P. O. Box 85, Churchville, VA 24421.
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