Services for Annie Mae Hoard, 100, Edgewood, were held at 2 p.m., January 24, at Hiett’s LyBrand Funeral Home in Edgewood, with Rev. Robert Cunningham officiating.
Burial followed at Small Cemetery.
Mrs. Hoard passed away at her home in Edgewood on January 21, 2010.
She was born December 22, 1909, near Quitman in Wood County, to James Thomas and Ella Jane Kendrick Mosley. She grew up in the Morence Community near Edgewood and attended school in the Small Community. Annie had six brothers and three sisters, whom she helped raise from a very early age. On February 19, 1935, Annie married Lewis Hoard. They made their home in Edgewood, where Annie was a housewife and helped in the fields working behind a plow. Annie was an excellent seamstress and could sew without a pattern and cook with out a recipe. She was a member of the Pleasant Union Baptist Church.
Along with her parents, Annie is also preceded in death by her husband, Lewis Hoard, six brothers and two sisters.
Survivors include her sons, Jerry Hoard, Mesquite and Gerald Hoard, Edgewood; daughter, Pat Slape, sister, Allene Johnson, both Mesquite; grandchildren, Paula Slape, Gerald Hoard, Jr., Jennifer Kerr, Matthew Hoard, Micah Hoard and Kimberly Wilson; and six great-grandchildren.
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