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Elizabeth Billie Jean Hensley Foxx

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Elizabeth Billie Jean Hensley Foxx

Birth
Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Death
19 Jan 2015 (aged 70)
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Swiss, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Billie Jean Foxx, 70, of Mars Hill, passed away on Monday, January 19, 2015 at St. Josephs Hospital in Asheville. A native of Yancey County, she was the daughter of the late James and Rachel Edwards Hensley. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Charles Hensley. Billie Jean was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother who was very excited for the upcoming birth of her first great granddaughter.

Surviving are her husband of 53 years, Jimmy Foxx; 2 sons: Don Foxx and wife, Debbie, and Chad Foxx of Mars Hill; 6 grandchildren: Kyle Foxx, Micah Foxx, Gage Foxx, Isaiah Foxx, Maliki Foxx and Adam Little; 3 sisters: Christine Ponder and Jearline Shepard of Mars Hill and Betty Canipe of Green Mountain.

Funeral services will be held at 7:30 PM Thursday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. A graveside service will be held at 11 PM Friday in the James Hensley Cemetery on Foxx Creek Road.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 7:30 PM Thursday prior to the service at the funeral home.
Billie Jean Foxx, 70, of Mars Hill, passed away on Monday, January 19, 2015 at St. Josephs Hospital in Asheville. A native of Yancey County, she was the daughter of the late James and Rachel Edwards Hensley. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Charles Hensley. Billie Jean was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother who was very excited for the upcoming birth of her first great granddaughter.

Surviving are her husband of 53 years, Jimmy Foxx; 2 sons: Don Foxx and wife, Debbie, and Chad Foxx of Mars Hill; 6 grandchildren: Kyle Foxx, Micah Foxx, Gage Foxx, Isaiah Foxx, Maliki Foxx and Adam Little; 3 sisters: Christine Ponder and Jearline Shepard of Mars Hill and Betty Canipe of Green Mountain.

Funeral services will be held at 7:30 PM Thursday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. A graveside service will be held at 11 PM Friday in the James Hensley Cemetery on Foxx Creek Road.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 7:30 PM Thursday prior to the service at the funeral home.


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