Melvie Marie Miller

On Sunday, July 24, 2011, Melvie Marie Miller, 101, of 131 Powers Rd., Asheville, NC, went home to be with her Lord at Memorial Mission Hospital, from complications after falling and breaking her hip 3 weeks earlier. Mrs. Miller was born April 3, 1910, in Yancey County. She was the daughter of Samuel and Lydia Moore of Bee Log in Yancey County. She was preceded in death by her husband, John D. Miller and 3 sons, Robert, Billy, and Richmond Miller. Surviving are her sons, Hiram and wife Mary of Burnsville, Donald and wife Linda of Toccoa, Georgia, James and wife Wanna of Asheville, and 2 daughters, Dorothy Honeycutt and husband David of Mars Hill, and Virgie Beasley and husband Charles of Lynchburg, VA; 21 grandchildren, 50 great-grandchildren, and 13 great-great grandchildren; lots of good friends but one was very special friend who visited and helped her alot, Mrs. Janice Hardaway, whom she loved very much. The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. Thursday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home, with the Reverends Lee Davis and Jimbo Seaton officiating. Interment will follow at Clark's Chapel Cemetery in Canton. Her family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home, and at other times at David and Dorothy Honeycutt's home, 1801 Ponder Creek Rd., Mars Hill, and at Vince and Cynthia Watkins home, 46 Penley Ave., Asheville.