Ornan "Annette" Ponder Morgan

Ornan “Annette” Ponder Morgan, 77, of Emerald Ridge Rehab, died Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at the Hospice Solace Center. Mrs. Morgan was born in Madison County and was a daughter of the late Nasby V. and Bessie Robinson Ponder. She was also preceded in death by her husband, John G. Morgan, Sr., who died in 1958; three brothers, Stanley, Ralph and Nasby Ponder, Jr.; one sister, Trilby Robinson and a granddaughter, Kimberly Stanley. She is survived by a daughter, Judy Johnson of Albany, OR; a son, John G. Morgan of Arden; three sisters, Winnie Lou Hunter and Lena Hensley of Mars Hill and Gertrude Hollifield of Johnson City, TN; a brother Franklin Ponder of Weaverville; six grandchildren including Vicki Morgan Atkins of Weaverville and April Morgan of East Flat Rock, nine great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Saturday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Revs. Bill Ponder, Nelson Ponder and Weldon Ramsey officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park with nephews serving as pallbearers. Her family will receive friends from 7:00-8:30 pm Friday at the funeral home and at other times will be at the home of Virginia Ponder, 25 Parkman Place, West Asheville.