Wanda Fritts Garner

HEADING: Wanda F. Garner Kathryn Wanda Fritts Garner,89, formerly of City Lake Road, Lexington died Friday morning, December 9, 2011 at the Brian Center of Lexington after one and a half years of declining health. A funeral service will be conducted at 2:00 PM Sunday, December 11, 2011 at Ebenezer United Methodist Church by Pastor Duke Walker. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church. Mrs. Garner was born June 28, 1922 in Davidson County to the late David Thomas Fritts, Sr. and Lenora Belle (Notie) Davis Fritts. She was a retired schoolteacher from the Moore County School System having taught school for over thirty-five years in Davidson, Randolph, and Moore counties. She was a graduate of Welcome School, attended Meredith College, and graduated from the Woman’s College of Greensboro(now UNCG). She was a member of The Order of The Eastern Star where she served as Worthy Matron. She also served as Past Matron of the Lexington OES Lexington 98, and was a member of Seagrove Grange 816, and a lifetime member of Ebenezer United Methodist Church. The last of ten children, she was predeceased by her siblings, Olin Grady Fritz, MD, Mary Fritts Hoover, Afton Fritts Koontz, Helen Lucille Fritts, Willie Carol Fritts Brinkley, David Thomas Fritts, Jr., Virginia Fritts Leonard, Laura Fritts Bernhardt, and Charles Ray Fritts. She is survived by nieces and nephews: her beloved caregivers Mary Ann Fritts and Edith Grey Fritts Thomason, Glenn Conrad Fritts, D.T. Fritts, III (Tom), Mary Gail Koontz Nesbit, Katherine Lenora Bernhardt Thomas, Charles Bernhardt, Cathy Fritts Wilkins, Martha Fritts Martin, Henry Fritts, and Martha Schneider. The family would like to give a special thank you to Sarah Edwards, Runell Hammonds, Loretta Causby, and Brenda Jarvis, Wanda’s special caregivers, and also to Hospice of Davidson County, and The Brian Center of Lexington. Memorials may be made to Ebenezer United Methodist Church, PO Box 410, Lexington, NC, 27293.