Donna Stines Griffin
July 6, 1963 ~ November 15, 2002
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Asheville, NC
Donna Stines Griffin, 39, of 644 School Road, Asheville, died Friday, November 15, 2002, at Hospice Solace Center.
Mrs. Griffin was born in Orlando, Fla., and was the daughter of Wayne Stines of Asheville and Jeanette Lay of Candler. She was the owner of Evolutions Salon in Asheville and was a member of New Morgan Hill Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents she is survived by her husband, Paul Griffin of Asheville; daughter, Lacey Marie Griffin and son, Kyle Robert Griffin both of the home; step-mother, Ellen Stines of Asheville; a sister, Waynette Scruggs of Candler; two brothers, Calvin Stines of Asheville, and Daniel Wayne Stines of Candler; several aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and many wonderful friends and clients.
Funeral services will be 11:00 am Monday in the chapel of Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian with the Rev. Michael Brown officiating. Burial will be at Dry Pond Cemetery in Madison County.
Her family will receive friends from 7-8:30 PM Sunday at the funeral home and request that memorials be made to Pathways “life after cancer”, 121 Sherwood Road, Asheville, NC, 28803.
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Words that could change your hurting heart at this time can’t come from friends. From our recent loss we know all to well some about how you hurt at this time. Paul, Donna Waynette & Joe have been our friends for a long time and we will miss her with you. Find some comfort in the words in John 11:25-26 and know your friends hurt with you.
David & Connie Walker
Our thoughts and prayers are with you. May God give you the strength to get through this very difficult time.
~ The Penland Family
Donna touched some many lives with her love. She was all about Love. I can close my eyes and hear her laughter. Just hearing her laugh would make you start laughing. Whenever she would enter the Salon everything would just light up.
She is my best friend and I will miss her so much.
Just know my mother was too good for you she wouldn’t have done what you and Jamie did to her family when you bought evolution salon
During this time of loss only God will carry us through and heal our hearts.
Donna touched some many lives with her love. She was all about Love. I can close my eyes and hear her laughter. Just hearing her laugh would make you start laughing. Whenever she would enter the Salon everything would just light up.
She is my best friend and I will miss her so much.
Getting to know Donna was the greatest thing that could have happened to me. She was truly an inspirational person. She always seemed to know what she was going to do and how she was going to do it. I came to know Donna and love her very much. My thoughts and prayers are with her family at this time. I feel very lucky to have known Donna.
Donna I know you are smiling down on us now. You have been so much to me, a mentor as well as a best friend. I know we were brought together for a reason and that was to build a beautiful friendship. I miss you and I LOVE YOU. To her sweet family, all of you are inspirations. We love You.
The way you went about buying the salon was just disappointing and I’ll never forget that
WORDS CAN NOT EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY IN YOUR TIME OF SORROW. YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL BE IN OUR PRAYERS.
LACEY,
WE ARE THINKING OF YOU
MIKELL & KAITIE SNEED
Wayne and family,
Johnie and I want to express our deepest sympathy at this time in your life. But remember now Donna has eternal life and no more pain and suffering. We will be thinking of all of you in every prayer we say.
Billie and Johnie Qualls
Asheville, NC
I will have to try really hard to keep this short. Donna was like a built-in sister to me when my sister was killed or I don’t know if I could have made it. We went on several camping trips together at Deep Creek and Little River with our kids and Waynette and her kids and their Mom. Also, Kevin and Mr. Stines. I love and admire Donna for her great sense of humor, her tremendous faith, her love and loyalty to her family and the support and comfort she gave me in my time of grief. She will not want us to be sad…but to be rejoyous in her new life there with our Savior and our departed loved ones! That is a hard order to follow but let’s let her be our example. With many fond memories and a very heavy heart, Gail Parker and children.
paul i am very sorry for your loss and my prayers are with you. if i can do anything please let me know.
So very saddened to hear of Donna’s passing. My heart goes out to the family – you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Donna was a very special person. I’m Happy i got to know Donna. She wasn’t just someone i worked for she was my friend. I will MISS HER and LOVE HER always! To the whole family, you will always be in my thoughts.
To all of Donna’s Family, To KNOW her was to LOVE her. Please know that I am deeply saddened to learn of her passing, and I will keep you in my thoughts. Don’t be hard on yourself for being human…grief is a powerful feeling that needs to be expressed whether it’s through crying, or talking to others about Donna, or simply placing yourself in the company of other understanding loved ones. I can’t say enough about the wonderful bereavement program offered by Hospice that is set up for anyone to attend. (I’m sure you are aware of it) They helped me realize that I was not the only wounded one walking around with a heavy heart, and that I had more in common with other grieving people than I ever realized! Please take comfort in knowing that I believe that Donna’s essence lives on just as brightly as the beam of light and goodness that made us drawn to her in the first place! Sincerely, Rene’Gallaher
To all of Donna’s Family, To KNOW her was to LOVE her. Please know that I am deeply saddened to learn of her passing, and I will keep you in my thoughts. Don’t be hard on yourself for being human…grief is a powerful feeling that needs to be expressed whether it’s through crying, or talking to others about Donna, or simply placing yourself in the company of other understanding loved ones. I can’t say enough about the wonderful bereavement program offered by Hospice that is set up for anyone to attend. (I’m sure you are aware of it) They helped me realize that I was not the only wounded one walking around with a heavy heart, and that I had more in common with other grieving people than I ever realized! Please take comfort in knowing that I believe that Donna’s essence lives on just as brightly as the beam of light and goodness that made us drawn to her in the first place! Sincerely, Rene’Gallaher
To all of Donna’s Family, To KNOW her was to LOVE her. Please know that I am deeply saddened to learn of her passing, and I will keep you in my thoughts. Don’t be hard on yourself for being human…grief is a powerful feeling that needs to be expressed whether it’s through crying, or talking to others about Donna, or simply placing yourself in the company of other understanding loved ones. I can’t say enough about the wonderful bereavement program offered by Hospice that is set up for anyone to attend. (I’m sure you are aware of it) They helped me realize that I was not the only wounded one walking around with a heavy heart, and that I had more in common with other grieving people than I ever realized! Please take comfort in knowing that I believe that Donna’s essence lives on just as brightly as the beam of light and goodness that made us drawn to her in the first place! Sincerely, Rene’Gallaher
To all of Donna’s Family, To KNOW her was to LOVE her. Please take comfort in knowing that I believe that Donna’s essence lives on just as brightly as the beam of light and goodness that made us drawn to her in the first place! Sincerely, Rene’Gallaher
My deepest sympathies and condolesces go to the family of Mrs. Donna Stines Griffin.
It seems so unfair that death should have the power to take away someone you love. And when it happens, the thought of never again being able to talk to, laugh with, or hold your loved one can be most difficult to bear. That pain is not necessarily erased by being told that your loved one is up in heaven.
When death takes your child, your husband, your wife, your parent, your friend, it is truly what the Christian writer Paul called it, ‘the last enemy.’ There is hope. Death will not continue to rob mankind of their loved ones indefinetly.
When Jesus was on earth there was an occassion that deeply grieved him. He met a widow of Nain and saw her dead son. The Bible account tells us: ‘As [Jesus] got near the gate of the city [Nain], why, look! there was a dead man being carried out, the only-begotten son of his mother. Besides, she was a widow. A considerable crowd from the city was also with her. And when the Lord caught sight of her, he was moved with pity for her, and he said to her: ‘Stop weeping.’ With that he approached and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still, and he said: ‘Young man, I say to you, Get up!’ And the dead man sat up and started to speak, and he gave him to his mother. Now fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying: ‘A great prophet has been raised up among us,’ and, ‘God has turned his attention to his people.” – Luke 7:12-16. Notice how Jesus was moved with pity, so that he resurrected the widow’s son! Imagine what that portends for the future!
This example was just a small foregleam of what Jesus will do in the very near future. Millions therefore can have the solid hope of seeing their loved ones alive again on earth but under very different circumstances. Yes, Jesus Christ promised that millions now dead will live again on this earth and have the prospect of remaining on it forever under peaceful, paradisaic conditions. May Mrs. Griffin be among them.
May the God of comfort be with you.