Barbara Rowley Wiggins

Barbara Rowley Wiggins, age 99 of Abbotts Creek Care formerly of Sidney Street, Lexington passed away Sunday afternoon December 4, 2022 at Abbotts Creek.

She requested her body to be donated to Wake Forest University School of Medicine. There will be no visitation or public service. The cremains will be inurned in the Columbarium at Salisbury National Cemetery.

Barbara was born in Everett, Washington on May 3, 1923 to Glenn I. and Ruth Gerber Rowley. She married George D. Wiggins who worked in the plywood industry. They lived in several states and settled in North Carolina. Barbara had several jobs in her lifetime, but her most rewarding was being a wife and a mother to six daughters. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and a veteran of the United States Navy. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband George in 2008; her sister Peggy Lane and a great-grandson, B.J. Upton.

She is survived by her daughters; Cathee Hoovler of Cross City, FL, Glenna Wiggins of Wadesboro, NC, Jann Holcombe of Temple Terrance, FL, Susan Lloyd and husband Vernon of Lexington, NC, Wendy Galloway and husband Bill of Johnson City, TN and Mary Fralix and husband Joseph of Gibsonville, NC, 14 Grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Trinity United Methodist Church, 902 South Main Street, Lexington, NC 27292 or Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292.

 

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