Maxine Greene Sitton

Maxine Rebecca Greene Sitton passed away on Thursday, January 3, 2013. She was born October 14, 1916 in Cranberry, NC. She was the daughter of the late Clyde Arnold Greene and Dayton Hazel Whitehead Greene. After graduation from Cranberry High School, she worked at American Enka Corp., Enka, until becoming a fulltime homemaker. She was married for 66 years to Harry Victor Sitton, who passed away in 2000. Harry was a supervisor at American Enka until his retirement in 1980. Maxine was an active member of the West Asheville Baptist Church where she was a Training Union Leader for many years. Maxine was a member of the International Poetry Society. She had four poems published in their books and won the Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award, Poet of Merit Award and the Editors Choice Award in 2006. In 2008 she won the Editors Choice Award. Maxine is preceded in death by her son, James Melvin Sitton, who passed away in 1975, and her son, Harry Arnold Sitton, who passed away in 1999. She is survived by Arnold's wife, Vivian Smith Sitton, of Rutherfordton, her son, Jerry Edward Sitton and his wife Karen Butler Sitton, of Martin, GA. She is also survived by three grandsons, one granddaughter, and five great-grandchildren: grandson, Jerry Edward Sitton, Jr. of Ellijay, GA, grandson, Alec Victor Sitton, his wife Stephanie East Sitton and their two children, Alec Victor Sitton and Lindsay Anne Sitton of Raleigh, NC, her grandson, Marc Thomas Emond of Greenville, SC, and daughter Addison Reece Emond of Ellijay, GA, and her granddaughter, Natalie Sitton Causby, husband David Causby and two daughters Brynley Elizabeth Thomas and Grace Allyn Causby, of Atlanta, GA. The funeral will be at Groce Funeral Home, 1401 Patton Ave., Asheville, at 2:00 p.m. Monday, January 7, 2013, with the Rev. Stan Welch officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.