Ethel Mae Brock Bivens

Ethel Mae Brock Bivens, age 82, a resident of Central Heights, died Sunday, March 23, 2008 at Lexington Memorial Hospital after several months of declining health. Funeral Services will be conducted 2:00 PM Wednesday, March 26, 2007 at Clearview Baptist Church with the Pastor Jeffrey Purdue officiating. Entombment will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park Mausoleum. Mrs. Bivens was born in Duplin County NC on July 21, 1925 to the late Albert Brock and Winnie Estelle Merritt Brock. She was a homemaker and a member of Clearview Baptist Church. She enjoyed cooking, fishing, gardening and growing flowers. In addition to her parents, preceding her in death was a sister, Elizabeth Brock Schessow and a brother, Albert “Buddy” Brock. Surviving are two sons, Jimmy W. Wynn and his wife, Susan, and William C. Wynn and his wife, Becky all of Lexington; two daughters Evelyn Shipp Parrish and her husband Jackie of Clinton, NC and Patricia Wynn McCormick and her husband Jerry of Fries Va.; four sisters, Kathleen Norris of Dunn, NC, Ruby Smith of Wilmington, NC, Mildred McGee and Becky Long both of Thomasville; two brothers, Tommy Brock, and Dewey Brock both of Lexington; twelve grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren. Also surviving is a special friend Dr. Charles Woodruff of Burlington, Iowa. The family will receive friends 6-8 PM Tuesday at Piedmont Funeral Home and other times at the residence on Central Heights. Anyone wishing to send memorials can direct them to Clearview Baptist Church, 120 Clearview Street, Lexington, NC 27295