Maybre Verna Warren
August 5, 1931 ~ June 5, 2000
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
Asheville Butterfly TrailMrs. Warren was a 1973 graduate of Western Carolina University and was retired after 23 years of service from the Controllers Department of American Enka. She enjoyed gardening and homemaking and was very talented in music, both piano and singing. She was a loving and caring person who was cherished by her family and many friends and will be sadly missed.
She is survived by her husband, Harold L. Williams of 30 Davenport Road, Asheville; two step-daughters, Patrice Grant of Fort Collins, CO, and Marci Colten and her husband Ed Colten of Hurst, TX, and two grandchildren, Jillian and Seth. She is also survived by her two children, daughter Karen Brewer and husband Bill Brewer with two granddaughters Ashley and Heather Brewer of Marion, NC, and son Stephen Warren and wife Darlene Warren with two grandsons Stephen and Jeremy Warren of Syracuse, Nebraska and two granddaughters, Andrea and Stephanie Warren of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
Also surviving is a brother, Thurlow Warren and wife Lorema Warren with children LaDatha, Marvin and Norma of Candler; and four sisters, Elizabeth Clark and husband Homer Clark with children Janice, Linda, Jerry and Leslie, sister Lillian Martin and children David and Jean, sister Olivia Stanberry and husband Fred L. Stanberry with children Diane, Warren, Donald and Doug, all of Birmingham, Alabama, and sister Marcelene Jackson and husband Robert Jackson with children Philip and Maria of Candler. She is also survived by many great nieces and nephews.
She faithfully attended Living Hope Christian Fellowship of Asheville, NC, of which she was a member. She was also a member of Electa Chapter No. 228 Order of Eastern Star, and a member of American Business Women’s Association.
Funeral services will be held at 4:00 pm Thursday, June 8, in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Reverend Robert Jackson and the Reverend Johnny Tiller officiating. Burial will be at Pisgah View Memorial Park, Candler.
Her family will receive friends from 2:30 - 4:00 pm Thursday at the funeral home prior to the service.
Memorials may be made to Living Hope Christian Fellowship, a favorite church or charity, or the American Cancer Society in honor of Maybre Warren.
Maybre was my dear aunt and a person who helped me understand so many things as a child that were a mystery to me. She had such a zest for life and I will always cherish the sound of her laughter and her disregard for the conventional. As if it were only yesterday, I recall her turning sommersaults in the yard with me. I must have been about ten or twelve years old and she in her mid-twenties, already a married lady and a mother but my special playmate. She had great courage in spite of many obstacles and was an inspiration to me. She loved deeply and felt great emotion, both happiness and sadness. She gave me much more than I gave her and I have many regrets. But, I will always love Maybre. Karen and Stephen and Harold…be thankful that she was your mother and wife.