D/O James Eric Hanks and Helen J Calfee
Geneva Helen Hanks Richardson of Woodlawn went to be with our Lord on July 14, 2018.
She was born in Woodlawn on February 16, 1920 to the late Eric Hanks and Helen Calfee Hanks. She was married to her late husband George H. Richardson, Sr. for many years. She met him when her family walked almost three miles each Sunday to Forest Oak Christian Church where she has been a life-long member. They were married when she was sixteen and has always lived in Woodlawn except for the short times they lived and worked during World War II in Baltimore, Detroit and Pulaski. Since then and while she was able, she enjoyed being a homemaker taking care of her family, preserving food from her garden, growing flowers, sewing her own wardrobe, making quilts, crocheting afghans and for a time milked her cows and sold milk to Carnation Milk Company for extra money. She always kept daily journals describing what was going on in her life or things that she did and she also avidly clipped newspaper articles and obituaries of everyone she knew. She especially enjoyed cooking large meals for her family and for her brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews when they came to visit and everyone was expected to eat whether they were hungry or not. She was the second of seven children and when they were all together, pictures had to be made of them in order of age and they were give then family nickname of “The Magnificent Seven.”
She was also preceded in death by her step-mother Julia Blair Hanks, a sister Alene Goad, two sons-in-law William “Billy” Frost and Dale Liddle, a daughter-in-law Pansy Sizemore Richardson, and a grand-daughter Sandra Kay Richardson.
Leaving to cherish her memory are one son Harlin Richardson, Woodlawn; three daughters and two sons-in-law: Clyda Rosenbaum (Harlin), Margaret Liddle, Karen Goad (Elmon), Galax; eight grandchildren: Kathy Richardson, Woodlawn, Greg Richardson (Miranda), Galax, Jeanne Roten (Jim), Mouth of Wilson, Leona Stone (David), Independence, Mark Liddle (Elizabeth), Jealynn Coleman (Michael), Vanessa Bottomley (Brant), Galax, Gerald Goad (Cleo), Woodlawn; eleven great-grandchildren: Travis Marshall (Tonya), Hillsville, Melissa Pack (Rob), Lebanon, TN, Dustin Richardson (Kara), Liam Goad, Woodlawn, Jocelyn Roten, Pilot Mountain, NC, Jordan Roten, Bethany Handy (Ryan), Mouth of Wilson, Ethan Liddle (Danielle), Fries, Kemper Coleman, Daniel Coleman, Logan Bottomley, Seth Bottomley, Galax; five great-great grandchildren: Amber Marshall, Leah Marshall, Mariah Marshall, Hillsville, Hailee Longaria (Hunter), Dugspur, LilyAnn Handy, Mouth of Wilson; one great, great, great grandson: Beniah Longaria, Dugspur.
She is also survived by two brothers: James Hanks and Elmer Hanks (Christine), Pulaski; three sisters: Veda Williams, Sally Radciffe, Pulaski, Una Lee Brewer, Galax; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and loving care-givers.
The funeral service will be held Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 2:00 PM in the Vaughan-Guynn Chapel. Burial will follow at Oakland Cemetery in Galax, Virginia. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 1:00 PM until time for the funeral service at the Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home.
Geneva Helen Hanks Richardson of Woodlawn went to be with our Lord on July 14, 2018.
She was born in Woodlawn on February 16, 1920 to the late Eric Hanks and Helen Calfee Hanks. She was married to her late husband George H. Richardson, Sr. for many years. She met him when her family walked almost three miles each Sunday to Forest Oak Christian Church where she has been a life-long member. They were married when she was sixteen and has always lived in Woodlawn except for the short times they lived and worked during World War II in Baltimore, Detroit and Pulaski. Since then and while she was able, she enjoyed being a homemaker taking care of her family, preserving food from her garden, growing flowers, sewing her own wardrobe, making quilts, crocheting afghans and for a time milked her cows and sold milk to Carnation Milk Company for extra money. She always kept daily journals describing what was going on in her life or things that she did and she also avidly clipped newspaper articles and obituaries of everyone she knew. She especially enjoyed cooking large meals for her family and for her brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews when they came to visit and everyone was expected to eat whether they were hungry or not. She was the second of seven children and when they were all together, pictures had to be made of them in order of age and they were give then family nickname of “The Magnificent Seven.”
She was also preceded in death by her step-mother Julia Blair Hanks, a sister Alene Goad, two sons-in-law William “Billy” Frost and Dale Liddle, a daughter-in-law Pansy Sizemore Richardson, and a grand-daughter Sandra Kay Richardson.
Leaving to cherish her memory are one son Harlin Richardson, Woodlawn; three daughters and two sons-in-law: Clyda Rosenbaum (Harlin), Margaret Liddle, Karen Goad (Elmon), Galax; eight grandchildren: Kathy Richardson, Woodlawn, Greg Richardson (Miranda), Galax, Jeanne Roten (Jim), Mouth of Wilson, Leona Stone (David), Independence, Mark Liddle (Elizabeth), Jealynn Coleman (Michael), Vanessa Bottomley (Brant), Galax, Gerald Goad (Cleo), Woodlawn; eleven great-grandchildren: Travis Marshall (Tonya), Hillsville, Melissa Pack (Rob), Lebanon, TN, Dustin Richardson (Kara), Liam Goad, Woodlawn, Jocelyn Roten, Pilot Mountain, NC, Jordan Roten, Bethany Handy (Ryan), Mouth of Wilson, Ethan Liddle (Danielle), Fries, Kemper Coleman, Daniel Coleman, Logan Bottomley, Seth Bottomley, Galax; five great-great grandchildren: Amber Marshall, Leah Marshall, Mariah Marshall, Hillsville, Hailee Longaria (Hunter), Dugspur, LilyAnn Handy, Mouth of Wilson; one great, great, great grandson: Beniah Longaria, Dugspur.
She is also survived by two brothers: James Hanks and Elmer Hanks (Christine), Pulaski; three sisters: Veda Williams, Sally Radciffe, Pulaski, Una Lee Brewer, Galax; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and loving care-givers.
The funeral service will be held Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 2:00 PM in the Vaughan-Guynn Chapel. Burial will follow at Oakland Cemetery in Galax, Virginia. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 1:00 PM until time for the funeral service at the Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home.
D/O James Eric Hanks and Helen J Calfee
Geneva Helen Hanks Richardson of Woodlawn went to be with our Lord on July 14, 2018.
She was born in Woodlawn on February 16, 1920 to the late Eric Hanks and Helen Calfee Hanks. She was married to her late husband George H. Richardson, Sr. for many years. She met him when her family walked almost three miles each Sunday to Forest Oak Christian Church where she has been a life-long member. They were married when she was sixteen and has always lived in Woodlawn except for the short times they lived and worked during World War II in Baltimore, Detroit and Pulaski. Since then and while she was able, she enjoyed being a homemaker taking care of her family, preserving food from her garden, growing flowers, sewing her own wardrobe, making quilts, crocheting afghans and for a time milked her cows and sold milk to Carnation Milk Company for extra money. She always kept daily journals describing what was going on in her life or things that she did and she also avidly clipped newspaper articles and obituaries of everyone she knew. She especially enjoyed cooking large meals for her family and for her brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews when they came to visit and everyone was expected to eat whether they were hungry or not. She was the second of seven children and when they were all together, pictures had to be made of them in order of age and they were give then family nickname of “The Magnificent Seven.”
She was also preceded in death by her step-mother Julia Blair Hanks, a sister Alene Goad, two sons-in-law William “Billy” Frost and Dale Liddle, a daughter-in-law Pansy Sizemore Richardson, and a grand-daughter Sandra Kay Richardson.
Leaving to cherish her memory are one son Harlin Richardson, Woodlawn; three daughters and two sons-in-law: Clyda Rosenbaum (Harlin), Margaret Liddle, Karen Goad (Elmon), Galax; eight grandchildren: Kathy Richardson, Woodlawn, Greg Richardson (Miranda), Galax, Jeanne Roten (Jim), Mouth of Wilson, Leona Stone (David), Independence, Mark Liddle (Elizabeth), Jealynn Coleman (Michael), Vanessa Bottomley (Brant), Galax, Gerald Goad (Cleo), Woodlawn; eleven great-grandchildren: Travis Marshall (Tonya), Hillsville, Melissa Pack (Rob), Lebanon, TN, Dustin Richardson (Kara), Liam Goad, Woodlawn, Jocelyn Roten, Pilot Mountain, NC, Jordan Roten, Bethany Handy (Ryan), Mouth of Wilson, Ethan Liddle (Danielle), Fries, Kemper Coleman, Daniel Coleman, Logan Bottomley, Seth Bottomley, Galax; five great-great grandchildren: Amber Marshall, Leah Marshall, Mariah Marshall, Hillsville, Hailee Longaria (Hunter), Dugspur, LilyAnn Handy, Mouth of Wilson; one great, great, great grandson: Beniah Longaria, Dugspur.
She is also survived by two brothers: James Hanks and Elmer Hanks (Christine), Pulaski; three sisters: Veda Williams, Sally Radciffe, Pulaski, Una Lee Brewer, Galax; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and loving care-givers.
The funeral service will be held Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 2:00 PM in the Vaughan-Guynn Chapel. Burial will follow at Oakland Cemetery in Galax, Virginia. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 1:00 PM until time for the funeral service at the Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home.
Geneva Helen Hanks Richardson of Woodlawn went to be with our Lord on July 14, 2018.
She was born in Woodlawn on February 16, 1920 to the late Eric Hanks and Helen Calfee Hanks. She was married to her late husband George H. Richardson, Sr. for many years. She met him when her family walked almost three miles each Sunday to Forest Oak Christian Church where she has been a life-long member. They were married when she was sixteen and has always lived in Woodlawn except for the short times they lived and worked during World War II in Baltimore, Detroit and Pulaski. Since then and while she was able, she enjoyed being a homemaker taking care of her family, preserving food from her garden, growing flowers, sewing her own wardrobe, making quilts, crocheting afghans and for a time milked her cows and sold milk to Carnation Milk Company for extra money. She always kept daily journals describing what was going on in her life or things that she did and she also avidly clipped newspaper articles and obituaries of everyone she knew. She especially enjoyed cooking large meals for her family and for her brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews when they came to visit and everyone was expected to eat whether they were hungry or not. She was the second of seven children and when they were all together, pictures had to be made of them in order of age and they were give then family nickname of “The Magnificent Seven.”
She was also preceded in death by her step-mother Julia Blair Hanks, a sister Alene Goad, two sons-in-law William “Billy” Frost and Dale Liddle, a daughter-in-law Pansy Sizemore Richardson, and a grand-daughter Sandra Kay Richardson.
Leaving to cherish her memory are one son Harlin Richardson, Woodlawn; three daughters and two sons-in-law: Clyda Rosenbaum (Harlin), Margaret Liddle, Karen Goad (Elmon), Galax; eight grandchildren: Kathy Richardson, Woodlawn, Greg Richardson (Miranda), Galax, Jeanne Roten (Jim), Mouth of Wilson, Leona Stone (David), Independence, Mark Liddle (Elizabeth), Jealynn Coleman (Michael), Vanessa Bottomley (Brant), Galax, Gerald Goad (Cleo), Woodlawn; eleven great-grandchildren: Travis Marshall (Tonya), Hillsville, Melissa Pack (Rob), Lebanon, TN, Dustin Richardson (Kara), Liam Goad, Woodlawn, Jocelyn Roten, Pilot Mountain, NC, Jordan Roten, Bethany Handy (Ryan), Mouth of Wilson, Ethan Liddle (Danielle), Fries, Kemper Coleman, Daniel Coleman, Logan Bottomley, Seth Bottomley, Galax; five great-great grandchildren: Amber Marshall, Leah Marshall, Mariah Marshall, Hillsville, Hailee Longaria (Hunter), Dugspur, LilyAnn Handy, Mouth of Wilson; one great, great, great grandson: Beniah Longaria, Dugspur.
She is also survived by two brothers: James Hanks and Elmer Hanks (Christine), Pulaski; three sisters: Veda Williams, Sally Radciffe, Pulaski, Una Lee Brewer, Galax; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and loving care-givers.
The funeral service will be held Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 2:00 PM in the Vaughan-Guynn Chapel. Burial will follow at Oakland Cemetery in Galax, Virginia. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 1:00 PM until time for the funeral service at the Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home.
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