GREENSBORO - Mrs. Frances Argo, 96, of Greensboro, peacefully went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at Beacon Place, after a twenty month struggle with bone cancer.

Funeral services celebrating her life will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, December 12, 2014, at Rehobeth United Methodist Church, with Rev. Paul McClure, Rev. Cam Conover, and Rev. Ralph Eanes officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Born October 10, 1918 in Pickens County, SC, the third daughter to the late Eutha and Lula Cochran, Frances dedicated her life to serving The Lord. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin, and friend. Frances was an ordained minister in the Wes-leyan church but chose to assist her husband in all his pastorates. She served right along side her late husband Rev. W.D. Argo as they shared a life of Christian service and ministry for 56 years. The two were blessed to serve The Lord in nine different churches, their last being at St. Andrew UMC in Greensboro, where they retired. Frances never fully retired from ministry work until sickness forced her to stop. For years she served as a Sunday School Teacher, held Bible studies with female prisoners at The Greensboro Jail, was a member of the choir at every church which she served, belonged to the United Methodist Women's Circle, visited the sick and the shut-ins along with her husband and even after his death she visited by phone and was faithful in mailing cards. Frances and her husband "Pop" were truly soul-mates and loved serving the communities in which they lived. In addition to her parents and husband, Frances was preceded in death by two sisters, Bethel Fendley and Pauline Kelly; brothers, Willie and J.T Cochran; nephews, Gary, Leon, Bill, and Kenneth Cochran, and Jack and Buddy Kelly.

Those left to cherish her memory include her sons, Rev. Tony Argo and wife Karen and Dale Argo; sister, Itell Cochran Reid; granddaughter, Leanna Argo Woodward and her husband Matt; greatgrandchildren, Austin, Avery, and Alex Warren; sister-in-law, Christine Cochran; and nieces and nephews, Shirley Byrom, Ann Freeman, Dorothy Donald, Bobbi Yearick, and Therron, Paschal, Matt, and Dan Cochran.

Greensboro News & Record (NC) - Thursday, December 11, 2014