Gladys Peck Meece

Gladys Lee Peck Meece, 94, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, March 5, 2002. She was born in Grainger Co., TN, November 29, 1907, the second of fourteen children of the late Stella Lee Lawrence Peck and William Tate Peck. She was married for 51 years to Roy E. Meece, Sr., who died in 1987. Mrs. Meece lived in Asheville for 60 years and loved the mountains. More recently she was cared for by the staff at Cary Health and Rehabilitation Center for the past four and a half years. A loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, she was a homemaker, flower gardener, seamstress, and faithful member of her church, Trinity United Methodist Church. Saddened by her passing, but rejoicing in her life, are her sons and daughters-in-law, Roy and Nell Meece of Cary and Bill and Juliet Meece of Baywood Park, CA; brother Charles Peck and his wife Isabelle of Oak Ridge, TN; sisters, Irene Titus of Scottsdale, AZ, Catherine Smart of Auburn, CA, and Doris Prater of Morristown, TN; grandchildren Judd Meece and his wife Missy of Cary, Jill Barnette and husband Steve of Cary, Karen Meece and Sara Meece of Baywood Park, CA; sisters-in-law Evelyn Manley of New Market, TN, and Helen Meece and Rosa Meece of Brevard; cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. Funeral services will be at 1:30 pm Friday, March 8, 2002, in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Ralph Reed officiating. Burial will be at Oak Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery, Brevard. Her family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service and request that memorials be made to Trinity United Methodist Church, 587 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806.