Post a reply || Back to Message Board Lanier Mary Anderson - Class of 1963
Submitted by Bill Norvell 1965 <w.norvell@att.net> on 17/Dec/2019
Lanier Mary Anderson Groves 74, Calabash died December 16, 2019. Arrangements will be announced at a later date. Brunswick Funeral Service, Shallotte Published in the Wilmington Star-News on Dec. 18, 2019 - Mary was born on 12/15/1945 and is 74 years old. Mary currently lives in Calabash, NC; in the past Mary has also lived in Rock Tavern NY, Newburgh NY and Myrtle Beach SC. Mary was married to Douglas Groves NFA Class of 1962 who recently passed away. http://www.nfayearbooks.com/mboard3/msg/4557.html - Mary Lanier
Groves entered into rest on December 16, 2019 after a brief illness in Seacoast
Hospital. Lanier was born and raised in Newburgh, N.Y. She was employed by
commercial offset printers until retiring in 1993. In 1994 Lanier and her
husband Douglas Groves who recently has also passed away, moved to Calabash to
build their forever home in Brunswick Plantation. Lanier loved to help people
and be a great influence on her children and grandchildren. She spent most of
her life making sure she instilled good values and morals in her son Jim and her
daughter Nancy so that they would be successful and happy. Lanier touched so
many peoples' lives, and to know her was a gift. There are very few people who
could measure up to her. A devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and extended
mother to many of Nancy and Jim's friends, as well as her grandchildren's
friends. She was a person who supported you and gave you the good quality talks
about how you should keep going and continue to push through life, never giving
up. She would like to be remembered in all your hearts and memories with a
smile, knowing that she touched you deeply in some way. She was the strength of
the family, and will be greatly missed. Lanier is survived by daughter Nancy
Simmons, her husband Robert of Shallotte, and their three children, Hope,
Austin, and Lilly; son, Jimmy Horton and wife Christine of Albany, N.Y. and
their two children Maya and AJ; her brother, Joseph Deane Anderson and wife
Darlene of Calabash. Funeral services were conducted at St. Brendan the
Navigator Catholic Church, Shallotte, on Jan 2 at 10 a.m. Brunswick Funeral is
serving the family. Published in The Brunswick Beacon on Jan. 9, 2020 Replies to this post No replies yet |