Willie Will Wilburn Sr.

MOUNT AIRY - Mr. Willie Will Wilburn Sr., 74, of 164 Terri Lane, Mount Airy, husband of Elizabeth Heath Wilburn, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. Mr. Wilburn was born Dec. 18, 1930, in Raleigh County, W.Va., to the late Louis Wilburn Sr. and Blanch Meador Wilburn. He served our country in the U.S. Army Air Corps, was a retired diesel mechanic from Petroleum Transport and was a member of Northside Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Elizabeth Heath Wilburn, of the home; four daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Billy Recce, Brenda and Roy Ayers, Frankie and Michael Lane and Ellen and Stanley Sechrist, all of Mount Airy; two sons and a daughter-in-law, David Wilburn and Willie Wilburn Jr. and Donna Wilburn, all of Mount Airy; 11 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a sister, Mary Jane Milam, of Cleveland, Ohio; and four brothers and three sisters-in-law, Delmar and Jean Wilburn of Cleveland, Louis Wilburn Jr. and Rosemary Wilburn of Lyndhurst, Ohio, Harold Wilburn of Fayetteville and the Rev. Howard and Judy Wilburn of Winston-Salem. The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at Northside Baptist Church. The service will be officiated by the Rev. Dean Eaton and the Rev. Howard Wilburn. Burial will be in Skyline Memory Gardens, with military rites conducted by VFW Memorial Honor Guard Post 2019 of Mount Airy and Post 9436 of Pilot Mountain. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. today, Oct. 6, at Northside Baptist Church. Flowers will be accepted, or memorials may be made to Hospice of Surry County, 1326 N. Main St., Mount Airy, NC 27030. Moody Funeral Services in Mount Airy is serving the Wilburn family.