Rosalie Powell Day

rosalie day
Rosalie Powell Day, 91, of Asheville, died Monday, February 19, 2001, in an Asheville hospital.

Mrs. Day was born in Halifax Co., VA, , was a daughter of the late Nathan F. and Rena Anderson Powell, and was a graduate of Greenville (NC) High School. She and her husband, Charles Thomas Day, Sr., who died November 20, 1999, lived in Greenville, NC until 1957, when they came to Asheville and established Day’s Tobacco Warehouse.

She is survived by two daughters, Polly Day Judy of Spartanburg, SC and Joyce Day Sundling of Murfreesboro, TN; two sons, Charles T. Day, Jr. of Flat Rock and Alton F. Day of Asheville, Twelve Grandchildren and Fourteen great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 pm Wednesday at Central United Methodist Church where she was a member, with the Rev. Dr. Robert M. Blackburn and the Rev. Donald Inlay officiating. Entombment will follow in the family mausoleum at Ashelawn Gardens.

Her family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church and request that memorials be made to Meals on Wheels 40 Church St. Asheville, NC 28801 or to Central United Methodist Church 27 Church St. Asheville, NC 28801.

Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue is in charge of the arrangements.

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  1. Alton,our sympathies and prayers for comfort go out to you and to all the members of your family.

  2. we are thinking of you at this time. so sorry to hear of your mother’s death.

    sincerely, margo and j.c.


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