Eva Cox "Toots" Jarvis

Eva "Toots" Cox Jarvis, 84, died Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 at Smyth County Community Hospital in Marion. She was a member of the Sugar Grove Baptist Church and was the president of the Rye Valley Homemakers Club for several years. She was also a correspondent for the Smyth County News and a substitute teacher for the Smyth County School Systems. She was preceded in death by her parents, Isom Cox and Lydia Cox, one sister, Polly Cox Earnest, three brothers, Robert, Gyke and June Cox. Survivors include her husband, Thomas Elmer Jarvis of Sugar Grove; two daughters, Louise Jarvis of Fairfax, and Margaret Jarvis Springer of Roanoke; three sons, Danny Jarvis and wife, Rhonda, of Bristol, Tom C. Jarvis and wife, Linda, of Madison, Ala., and Jeff Jarvis of Radford; one sister, Ann Jennings of Marion; several nieces and nephews; seven grandchildren, Kendall, Maggie, Adam, and Will Jarvis, Pam Calkins, Lisa Chik, and DuWayne Shearer; and seven great-grandchildren, Allison, Aaron, and Jeremy Calkins, Brittany and Tanner Chik, and Amber and Ashley Shearer; and her dedicated, loving and loyal caregivers, Elizabeth Wolford, Frances Slagle and Blanche Thomas. Funeral services were conducted Monday, Nov. 24, at 1 p.m. at Sugar Grove Baptist Church in Sugar Grove, with the Rev. Billy Gwinn and the Rev. Kenny Price officiating. Burial followed at Hutton Cox Family Cemetery in Sugar Grove. The family received friends Sunday, Nov. 23, from 6 until 8 p.m. at Seaver-Brown Chapel. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sugar Grove Life Saving Crew, c/o Carol Choate, P.O. Box 108, Sugar Grove, VA 24375 or the Sugar Grove Fire Department, P.O. Box 168, Sugar Grove, VA 24375. Expressions of sympathy may be made to the family at www.seaverbrown.com Seaver-Brown Funeral Service and Crematory was in charge of arrangements.