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 Post a reply || Back to Message Board Lanier Mary Anderson - Class of 1963 
 
 
            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  | 
