Mildred Noblett Wooten

Asheville – Mildred Noblett Wooten, 93, died Monday June 18, 2007, in the John F. Keever, Jr. Solace Center. Mrs. Wooten was a resident of the Oaks at Sweeten Creek and a former resident of the Asheville Terrace Apartments. She was a retired employee of the Sheppard-Pratt Health System in Baltimore, Maryland with 20 years of service. Mrs. Wooten will greatly miss her Bingo games at the Oaks and her many stuffed animals. A native of Savannah, Georgia, she was the daughter of the late Fannie Noblett McGraw and Merdie McGraw and was the wife of the late Albert Wooten who died in 1966. She also was preceded in death by three children, Mary Alice Fisher, Mildred Virginia Thomas and William E. Lewis, Jr.; and by two grandchildren, Randy Penland and Kenneth Lewis. She is survived by three daughters, Shirley Jean Taeuber of Forest Hill, Maryland, Judy Williams, and her husband Clarence, of Arden and Carolyn Owens of Arden; her son, Robert E. Lewis of Arden; twenty-one grandchildren; thirty-four great grandchildren; twenty-eight great great grandchildren and one sister, Kathryn Case of Hendersonville. A funeral service will be held in the mausoleum of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hendersonville at 2:00 pm, Thursday conducted by the Rev. Roy Waldroup. The family will receive friends from 7:00 pm until 8:30 pm Wednesday at Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian. The family would like to express a special thanks to Fred Collins and the staff of the Oaks at Sweeten Creek and to CarePartners Solace for their comforting care.