Wilma Faye Cothran
January 12, 1927 ~ February 2, 2004
Resided in:
Alexandria, VA
Wilma Faye Cannon Cothran, 77, of 8121 Russell Road, Alexandria, VA, died Monday, February 2, 2004, at Mt. Vernon Hospital in Alexandria.
Mrs. Cothran was born in Powell, TN, and was a daughter of the late John David and Lucy Mae Jones Cannon. She was a former resident of Asheville and Spartanburg, SC.
She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Jack Dempsey Cothran; two daughters, Sandra Cade of Elizabethton, TN and Kathy Cothran of Spartanburg, SC; a son, David W. Cothran of Mocksville, NC; four grandchildren, Terri Johnson, Carl Cade, John Cade, and Jason Cothran and one great-grandson, David Johnson.
Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Scott Rogers officiating. Burial will be at Averys Creek Christian Church Cemetery.
Her family will receive friends from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
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Aunt Faye; Thank you for making me feel so welcome in this family that I had so longed to know. Your laugh and our last smile together will be in my mind and heart until we meet again. Love, Terry Lee Cothran.
Uncle Dempsey and Family,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you. I will always remember Aunt Faye’s sweet smile and her caring and loving personality. So sorry we cannot be with there with you.
Love, Ron, Cindy, and Emily
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time.
Thank you for the joy that you brought the new extension of the Cothran Family. The few moments of joy and laughter you gave us remain in memory for a life time. Your parting and beginning of a wonderful life with our Lord precedes the beginning of a new generation. I have already assured the continous existence of the Cothran Family with my newborn daughter ‘Adelina Marie Cothran’ and I am sure that she will bring as much joy as you have during your lifetime. God bless you ‘Wilma Faye Cothran’ and thank you for being my Great Aunt; I always wanted one. You will always be in my family’s prayers.
Love,
Kiki
Faye was such a wonderful, sweet person and her visit to Texas in 2000 for Doris’ birthday party will always be a special memory for us. We are truly sorry for your loss and will remember all of you in our prayers.
Dempsey, Sandy, David and Kathy; I’m so sorry about your loss. Faye was a wonderful person. I remember the fun we use to have sitting under the chinaberry tree. We have been friends for a long time. Losing your mother is a sad thing. I know. Mine has been gone 10 years. I still miss her every day. You will always remember the good times you had with her. Love always, Brenda Eplee Bowers
Our meeting so brief, yet filled with memories to last a lifetime.
Our thoughts of a carring and loving soul will never fade.
Dan,Beth,Jeremy,Chris
You have my heartfelt sympathy in the death of Mrs. Cothran. It is a very sad time when we lose someone we love. We remember the good times we had with them and how much we love them. When we loose someone we love the Bible gives us a comforting message to help us cope with their death. This message is found at Revelation 21:3, 4 and John 5: 25. May these words bring you comfort as they did me when my mother died.
Deepest Sympathy,
Ms. Floyd
To Dempsey and Family:
I was so very sorry t hear of Faye’s passing. Willie Ruth told me that she had passed away. She was a very sweet person and a joy to know.
We will be thinking of you during this time. Randy Willliamson
(My mother is Wanda Lewis Williamson, my Grandmother was Thelma Lewis)
Our deepest sympathy.
Thinking of you with love
Dempsey, Sandy, Kathy and David; you have our sincere sympathy. We are sorry we did not make the funeral but were in Texas visiting Donnie at the time
With Deepest Sympathy;
As David’s friend and friend of the family, Faye always welcomed me and had a kind word to say. My most recent visit in Jan 2004 I really enjoyed talking with everyone, and I can hear Faye say to me now, as she said to me then; ‘I like him, Dempsey can we keep him around?’
The Cothrans, Always my friends.