Virginia Blount

Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia Greenway Blount, age 89, will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, July 22, 2017 at Minton Chapel Advent Christian Church with burial to follow in the church cemetery. Rev. Allen Meeks and Rev. Lamar Kersey will officiate. Mrs. Blount was born January 21, 1928 and was a lifelong resident of Johnson County. She was preceded in death by her parents, the late Jimmy Jones and Bessie Harrell Jones, two husbands, Leon Greenway and Tom Watson Blount, six sisters and three brothers. She was a member of Williams Chapel Baptist Church and was retired from Creston's Knitting Mill as a seamstress. Mrs. Blount passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2017. She is survived by her son, Gary (Dr. Tamara Greenway) Greenway of Aichtal, Germany, two granddaughters, Patricia Bonte and Corinna (Marc) Ulmschneider, three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the funeral service at the church. Pallbearers will be Dale Brantley, Kevin Brantley, Charles Greenway, Mitchell Greenway, Mark Tanton and Robert Hood. Stanley Funeral Home and Crematory/Wrightsville Chapel has charge of funeral arrangements.