Frances Edwards

Devoted Christian mother Canton-Frances Pauline Mintz Edwards, age 89, passed away Thursday, September 18, 2014 at Silver Bluff Nursing Home. She was a native and a lifelong resident of Haywood County and the daughter of the late William Reed and Chanie Iva McGaha Mintz. Frances was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Ellis Edwards, who died August 16, 1992, a daughter, Vivian Annette Edwards and two grandchildren: Sheri Grey Price, and Douglas Peyton. Frances was employed with Canton Nursing Home as a CNA, she retired at the age of 79 as a home health nurse. She was a charter member of Mountain View Church of God, where she devoted much of her time, service, and also taught Sunday school. She enjoyed crocheting, volunteering at nursing homes and enjoyed teaching Sunday School at Silver Bluff. Frances will be remembered for being a Christian example to all who knew her and blessed so many of her friends and family by being the hands and feet of Christ. She is survived by daughters, Carol Peyton and her husband, Lou of Spartanburg, SC, Sharon Gaddis and her husband, Lesley of Waynesville; an adopted daughter, Rita Sutton of Canton; one sister, Helen Holland of Hampton, VA; one brother, Paul Mintz of Cleveland, TN; twelve grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren; sixteen great-great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews and a host of special friends. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, September 22, 2014 at Mountain View Church of God with Reverend Bobby Brooks, Reverend Herman Toney and Reverend Larry D. Flippo officiating. The family will receive friends from 12:00 noon. until 2:00 p.m. prior to the service at the church. Burial will follow at Bon-A-Venture Cemetery, Old Clyde Road. Memorials may be made to Mountain View Church of God Children's Ministry, P.O. Box 553 Canton, NC 28716 or Silver Bluff Nursing Home Activities Fund, 100 Silver Bluff Drive, Canton, NC 28716.

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