Frances Mabe Gauldin

Gibsonville: Frances Mabe Gauldin, 75, of 4685 Troxler Mill Rd, passed away Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Annie Penn Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Monday, October 13, 2008 at Wilkerson Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Jimmy Holland officiating. The burial will follow in the Mabe Family Cemetery in Wentworth. The pallbearers will be Rock Shoemaker, Norman Shoemaker, Barry Wilson, Brian Rich, Casey Faircloth and Gary Dickerson. Mrs. Gauldin was a native of Rockingham Co. and was on born May 12, 1933 to the late Coy and Essie Chaney Mabe. Virginia was a loving mother and a devoted member of the Graham Church of God. She loved living life to the fullest and was a caring and giving person to all that knew her. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by three husbands; sisters, Maggie Hollifield and Tootsie Crawford; brothers, Billy Mabe and Swanson Mabe and several nieces and nephews. Virginia is survived by her sons; Tommy Talalah and wife, Barbara of Gibsonville, William Joseph Atkinson and wife, Pamela of Pleasant Grove, Tony Ray Talalah and wife, Diane of Reidsville, Timothy Robert Talalah and wife, Lisa of Cherokee, NC; daughters, Dorothy Ann Harris of Gibsonville and Peggy Talalah Owen of Reidsville; grandchildren, Russell, Jennifer, Melinda, Essie, Tammy, Angela, Timothy, Clayton and Jennifer; 7 great-grandchildren; sisters Opal Rich, Faye Shoemaker, Irene Edwards, Nellie White, Anna Mae Winkler, and Jaunita Dickerson; several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral home on Sunday, Oct 12, 2008 from 5-7pm and other times at the home, as well as Faye Shoemaker’s home, 927 Knowles Road, Reidsville. Condolences may be sent to the family at www. wilkersonfuneral.com