Obituary for Elizabeth Trainum Sheets Elizabeth Trainum Sheets
Former Alleghany Highlands School Division Guidance Secretary Was Active In Her Community
Elizabeth Trainum Sheets, age 88, of 104 Patton Farm Road,
Stuarts Draft, Virginia, died Sunday, July 19,2015 at her residence surrounded by
her family and friends.
She was born August 9, 1926 in Fordwick, Virginia, to the
late Thomas Jefferson Trainum and Lois Patsy Crawford Trainum.
She was retired
from the Alleghany Highland Public Schools, where she worked for many years as
the Guidance Secretary at Alleghany High School.
She was a sixty year member of
the Central United Methodist Church in Clifton Forge, a member of the Woman's
Society of the Central United Methodist Church, she served thirteen years as a
delegate to the conference of Virginia Methodist Churches, she was also a member
of Clifton Forge Woman's Club, Tally Ho Garden Club, PPP Sewing Club and several
Bridge Clubs.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her
husband, James Lindsey Sheets, Jr. in 2005, a daughter, Ann Tinsley; two
brothers, William Thomas Trainum and Douglas Justin Trainum, and a sister, Jean
Trainum Moore.
She is survived by two daughters, Beth Sheets Smith of Abingdon, and
Joan Sheets Melady of Roanoke; four grandchildren, Charles Benjamin Smith and
wife, Jenny, James Willoughby Smith, Megan Elizabeth Melady, Mark Andrew Melady;
three great-grandchildren, Leah Kate Smith, Charles Holston Smith and Avery Anne
Melady.
A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in
the Central United Methodist Church in Clifton Forge with the Reverend Lynn
Wright, Father James D. Smith and Christie Hardbarger officiating.
Interment
will follow in the Shiloh United Methodist Church Cemetery in Eagle Rock.
Serving as pallbearers will be Chuck Wilkerson, Matt Wilkerson, Mark Cook, Ben
Smith, Mark Melady, Will Smith, Doug Trainum, Bob Kenney. Honorary pallbearers
will be Bill Hardbarger, Charlie Wilkerson and Bob Melady.
The family will
receive friends two hours prior to the service at Central United Methodist
Church. The family suggests that memorial tributes take the form of contributions
to the Central United Methodist Church, Women of the Church, P. O. Box 16,
Clifton Forge, Va. 24422.
The Nicely Funeral Home, Clifton Forge, is in charge of arrangements.
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