Roy Penley

Roy Penley, 87, of 1045 Johnston School Road, Asheville, died Tuesday, January 10, 2006, at the VA Medical Center. Mr. Penley was born in Buncombe County and was a son of the late Samuel Martin and Anna Bell Jones Penley. He was married to Mary Alice Elkins Penley, who died in 1997, and was also preceded in death by a son, Roy “Butch” Penley and by two brothers, Sam Penley and Blake Penley. He was an Army veteran of WW II and was a retired crane operator. Surviving are two daughters, Donna McLamb and her husband, Gary, of Wilmington and Diane Meadows and her husband, Jay, of Alexander; one son, Jimmy Penley of Enka; one sister, Gracie Harris of Asheville, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday in the chapel of the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery, with burial to follow in the Veterans Cemetery. The Buncombe County Veterans Council will provide military honors. His family will receive friends from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue.