Alease Pritchett Poore (Tippy), 81, of Lynchburg passed away Thursday November 22, 2012 at Lynchburg General Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Lionel and Katie Gunter Pritchett and is preceded in death by a sister, Doris Tackett and a brother, Donald Pritchett. She is survived by her beloved sister, Betty Jacobs, her adoring husband Marvin, four children and many children and great-grandchildren. Born August 25, 1931, for 64 years she was the devoted and loving wife and friend and partner to Marvin G. Poore. Together they would raise four children, David Poore, Beverly Fortune, Marsha Crawford and Glenn Poore. Most always together, at restaurants, at the grocery store, on long family vacations, for 64 years one was rarely spotted without the other. Despite the fact that he is by profession a driver, Tippy was most always the one at the wheel, such was Marvin's trust that she would pilot them in the direction they most needed to go. From four children came seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, all of them worshipped, all of them at any given moment the absolute smartest, cleverest, most-talented and best-looking of any grandchildren or great-grandchildren that have ever lived. Tippy would remind everyone of this at every opportunity regardless of the conversation being had, regardless of whose other children were being discussed, this is how absolutely proud she was of the lives she and her dear Marvin had conspired to create.
A life-long lover of animals who nursed tiny kittens with baby bottles when nature demanded and oversaw a constant menagerie of birds and little dogs, Tippy was at her core a motherer. Talented with a crochet needle, her booties and blankets have kept leagues of us warm at night. A voracious reader with an agile mind, a quick and vicious wit and an easy laugh Tippy was smart and she was interesting and she was always one that you were lucky to sit next to at dinner because she was guaranteed to say something good.
There are not nearly enough smart and interesting people and with Tippy's passing the world is a much less colorful place. Those who knew her were lucky to have had the chance and those of us who were at times placed in the high beam glare of her very special brand of affection are forever changed and made better for it. She will be missed so very much.
A graveside service will be held Monday, November 26th, 2012 in Spring Hill Cemetery at 1:00pm, conducted by the Reverend Bill Evans.
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Published in The News & Advance from November 24 to November 25, 2012
A life-long lover of animals who nursed tiny kittens with baby bottles when nature demanded and oversaw a constant menagerie of birds and little dogs, Tippy was at her core a motherer. Talented with a crochet needle, her booties and blankets have kept leagues of us warm at night. A voracious reader with an agile mind, a quick and vicious wit and an easy laugh Tippy was smart and she was interesting and she was always one that you were lucky to sit next to at dinner because she was guaranteed to say something good.
There are not nearly enough smart and interesting people and with Tippy's passing the world is a much less colorful place. Those who knew her were lucky to have had the chance and those of us who were at times placed in the high beam glare of her very special brand of affection are forever changed and made better for it. She will be missed so very much.
A graveside service will be held Monday, November 26th, 2012 in Spring Hill Cemetery at 1:00pm, conducted by the Reverend Bill Evans.
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Published in The News & Advance from November 24 to November 25, 2012
Alease Pritchett Poore (Tippy), 81, of Lynchburg passed away Thursday November 22, 2012 at Lynchburg General Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Lionel and Katie Gunter Pritchett and is preceded in death by a sister, Doris Tackett and a brother, Donald Pritchett. She is survived by her beloved sister, Betty Jacobs, her adoring husband Marvin, four children and many children and great-grandchildren. Born August 25, 1931, for 64 years she was the devoted and loving wife and friend and partner to Marvin G. Poore. Together they would raise four children, David Poore, Beverly Fortune, Marsha Crawford and Glenn Poore. Most always together, at restaurants, at the grocery store, on long family vacations, for 64 years one was rarely spotted without the other. Despite the fact that he is by profession a driver, Tippy was most always the one at the wheel, such was Marvin's trust that she would pilot them in the direction they most needed to go. From four children came seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, all of them worshipped, all of them at any given moment the absolute smartest, cleverest, most-talented and best-looking of any grandchildren or great-grandchildren that have ever lived. Tippy would remind everyone of this at every opportunity regardless of the conversation being had, regardless of whose other children were being discussed, this is how absolutely proud she was of the lives she and her dear Marvin had conspired to create.
A life-long lover of animals who nursed tiny kittens with baby bottles when nature demanded and oversaw a constant menagerie of birds and little dogs, Tippy was at her core a motherer. Talented with a crochet needle, her booties and blankets have kept leagues of us warm at night. A voracious reader with an agile mind, a quick and vicious wit and an easy laugh Tippy was smart and she was interesting and she was always one that you were lucky to sit next to at dinner because she was guaranteed to say something good.
There are not nearly enough smart and interesting people and with Tippy's passing the world is a much less colorful place. Those who knew her were lucky to have had the chance and those of us who were at times placed in the high beam glare of her very special brand of affection are forever changed and made better for it. She will be missed so very much.
A graveside service will be held Monday, November 26th, 2012 in Spring Hill Cemetery at 1:00pm, conducted by the Reverend Bill Evans.
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Published in The News & Advance from November 24 to November 25, 2012
A life-long lover of animals who nursed tiny kittens with baby bottles when nature demanded and oversaw a constant menagerie of birds and little dogs, Tippy was at her core a motherer. Talented with a crochet needle, her booties and blankets have kept leagues of us warm at night. A voracious reader with an agile mind, a quick and vicious wit and an easy laugh Tippy was smart and she was interesting and she was always one that you were lucky to sit next to at dinner because she was guaranteed to say something good.
There are not nearly enough smart and interesting people and with Tippy's passing the world is a much less colorful place. Those who knew her were lucky to have had the chance and those of us who were at times placed in the high beam glare of her very special brand of affection are forever changed and made better for it. She will be missed so very much.
A graveside service will be held Monday, November 26th, 2012 in Spring Hill Cemetery at 1:00pm, conducted by the Reverend Bill Evans.
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Published in The News & Advance from November 24 to November 25, 2012
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