Frances Taylor DeBruhl

February 10, 1930 ~ September 16, 2006
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
Frances Taylor "Poochie" DeBruhl, 76, of 91 Trotter Place, Asheville, died Saturday, September 16, 2006.
Mrs. DeBruhl was born in Union County and was the daughter of the late Robert and Nancy Coan Taylor. She was also preceded in death by her husband, William "Bill" DeBruhl, who died in 1996.
Mrs. DeBruhl graduated from Lee H. Edwards High School, and retired from working as an office nurse for Dr. James Worley. She was a member of West Asheville Baptist Church where she was active in her Sunday school class. She was a member and Past Matron of the order of Eastern Star.
Mrs. DeBruhl is survived by two sisters, Faye Lowe of Asheville, and Sue Pinney of Charleston, WV; two brothers, Robert Taylor and Manget Taylor, both of Asheville; two step-daughters, Teresa Kent and Deborah Reinke; and a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Groce Funeral Home on Patton Ave. with the Revs. John T. Tiller and David Tucker officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery.
Her family will receive friends from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
The family gives many thanks to the medical staff at Mission St. Joseph's Hospital for all of their help and support.
Memorials may be made to the West Asheville Baptist Church Building Fund, 926 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806.
Poochie,
We will miss you very much. We love you.
Poochie was a wonderful caring lady. She was one of a kind who always thought of the other person. We will miss her smile and her company. Heaven has just received another angel.
Poochie’s Family, I am on a trip to New York this week and my brother told me about Poochie. I asked him to leave this message on this web site. We are never ready to lose our loved ones and the only comfort has to be our Faith in the Sovereignty of God and the concern manifested by caring friends. Please know I am thinking of you and hope it helps in some small way to know that others do care. Mary
Poochie,
Memories of love and laughter is all I can say. Take me back in time when she was standing in her kitchen cooking for Bill, Marshall(my bro) and of course ME. Getting ready to go fishing and shooting the guns. I remember like it was yesterday. I can still smell the bacon and eggs sizzling in the pan. I raise my glass(ice cold milk) too you both in Heaven. I love you both and feel a great loss today. May you both be smiling and embracing each other.
Love always,
James Arthur Derossett
Dear Family,
Our love and prayers are with you during this difficult time.
Love,
Otto and Jackie DeBruhl
You have our heartfelt sympathy and prayers. Poochie was a wonderful woman and we were honored to be her friend. She will be sadly missed
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time.
We were so saddened to hear about Poochie’s death. She was a lifelong neighbor and friend of our family and she will be missed by everyone who knew her. My Dad loved to carry-on with Poochie and she was always there to look in on him when he was ill. Please accept our heartfelt condolences. We are in Maine for a month and unfortunately will not be able to attend her services. However please know that her family will be in our thoughts and prayers.
Jerry & Carol Hagan
To Poochie’s family,
I am so sorry for your loss – my loss too as she was one of the best friends I ever had. I’ll always remember her and all the good times we had in Eastern Star. I know she’s happy now because she’s with Bill. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Poochie will be missed. She always made me laugh and her spirit was so strong. She was the most upbeat person. I was blessed to know her.
I have known Poochie since I was knee high. I was the grandaughter of her next door nieghbor, ‘Doc’ and Joyce Hagan. I used to go to her house and she would sneak us Eskimo Pies even if we werent supposed to have anymore sweats that day. She was always so sweet and always, always there for our family when we needed her. She would have done anything for anyone. I loved her like she was my family. I am so sad to hear of her passing, and her family will be in my thoughts and prayers. She will be very missed.
Audrey Bugg
To Poochie’s family
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time.
Dear Grandma Poochie..I am so glad I got to spend those days in July with you. I am sorry I could not be there to say goodbye.. but no one let me know soon enough. I will hold many wonderful memories of Easters, and summer trips. You will be greatly missed. I know that you are so happy to be with Grandpa and you are in a better place. God Bless you! Many people will miss you… and we grandchildren thought the world of you!! Love your granddaughter-Courtenay Griffin, Daughter of Teresa De Bruhl Kent