Martha Dunagan Ferguson

Reidsville - Martha Dunagan Ferguson, 96, of Brian Center of Eden, went home to be with her Heavenly Father, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at Rockingham County Hospice Home.Funeral services will be held 10:00 A.M., Saturday, July 22, 2012, at Wilkerson Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Clay Spivey officiating. Interment will follow in Greenview Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Keith Chapman, Jason Chapman, Donny Childress, Brian Mabe, Brian Loye and Michael McFadden. Mrs. Ferguson was born in Gainsville, Ga. to the late Hubert O'Neal and Martha Jane Apple Dunagan. She was a retiree of Chase Bag Company with over 30 years service and a member of College Park Baptist Church. She had lived the longest of any of her family members and was known by her grandchildren as Maw Maw or Mo Mo. Martha loved to quote scripture to family and friends, was an avid shopper and enjoyed eating at Reid's House Restaurant. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, Houston Barham, Leonard Barker and Harry Ferguson; daughters, Betty Lou Chapman and Marie Knowles; grandson, Eddie Knowles; brothers, O'Neal and Parks Dunagan; sisters, Edith Barham ,Elsie Dunagan , Mildred Donati and Thelma McCoy.Survivors include her grandchildren, Terri Childress and husband, Wayne, Cindy Everett and husband, Philip, LuAnne Loye and husband, Gary, Keith Chapman and wife, Susan and Ricky Knowles who gave her so much joy and comfort in her last days; 8 great grandchildren; 12 great great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.The family will receive friends 7-9 PM on Friday, July 20, 2012 at Wilkerson Funeral Home and other times at the home of Gary and LuAnne Loye, 126 Loye Drive, Reidsville. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Rockingham County, PO Box 281, Wentworth, North Carolina 27375 Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wilkersonfuneral.com