Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Rev. Lillie Mae McCrary

NORTON, Va. — Rev. Lillie Mae McCrary, 84, died Friday, (Dec. 2, 2011) in Mountain View Regional Medical Center.


She was a member and assistant pastor at Blackman Chapel AME Zion in Norton.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Carl McCray and her second husband, Willie McCrary.

She is survived by two daughters, Lena Foster and her husband, David of Coeburn, Ophelia Forney of Norton; four sons, of Norton, Robert Forney Thomas Forney and his wife Edna of Coeburn, Timothy Forney of Norton, Paul Forney and his wife Kim of Norton; daughter-in-law, Wanda Forney of Baltimore, Md.; 30 grandchildren; several great and great-great grandchildren; aunt, Beatrice Livingston; cousin, Breford Hamilton; niece, Carolyn Johnson; special friends, Sadie Coleman, Richard Lomax, T.D. Lassiter, Frieda Sensabaugh and Effella Goodgame.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Hagy & Fawbush Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Leslie Lee Jr., Rev. Joseph Comage and Rev. Todd French officiating.

Burial will follow in the Oak View Cemetery in Big Stone Gap.