Lillian Jewell Williams Summey

Lillian Jewell Williams Summey, 82, of Winston-Salem, N.C., died Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at her home following a brief illness due to lung cancer. She was born August 7, 1926, in Max Meadows, Va., to the late Herman K. and Sadie Shaw Williams. She graduated from Woodlawn High School in Woodlawn, Va., in 1943. She later graduated from Radford College in Radford, Va., in 1946. She was a first grade teacher in Hillsville, Va., and retired from the Winston-Salem Journal Newspaper's Circulation Department. Mrs. Summey was preceded in death by her sons, Joe, Steve and Bob Summey. Their hometown was the United States of America as their father had chosen a military career. Survivors include her daughter, Linda and her husband, Alan Nichols, of Belews Creek, N.C.; brother, Robert H. Williams and his wife, Virginia (Ginnie Lee), of Rocky Mount, Va.; sister, Jean Kirby, of Lewisburg, Pa., and formerly of Wilkesboro, N.C. Online condolences may be sent to the Summey family at www.PierceJeffersonFuneralService.com.At her request, make donations to the Celeste Park, c/o Finance Department, Town Hall, 345 Donald Ave., Rocky Mount, Va. 24151. She requested cremation. A private burial at a later date will be held at Monte Vista Cemetery in Galax, Va. The family offers special thanks to the doctors and nurses at WFUBMC, Gentiva, and Hospice of Forsyth.