Mary Alice Cole
Big Stone Gap, VA - Mary Alice Cole, 85, passed away Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at Norton Community Hospital in Norton, VA.
Mary was a lifelong resident of Big Stone Gap and East Stone Gap, VA. She was a graduate of East Stone Gap High School, where she excelled in basketball. She worked at East Stone Gap Elementary School and Central Supply for a few years before moving to Powell Valley Middle School for over 20 years. She loved to quilt, work jigsaw puzzles and work at East Stone Gap Baptist Church Help Center where she served as the bookkeeper and general overseer. She was a member of East Stone Gap Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Worley and Alice Carter Stidham; her husband, Walter Cole; her daughter, Pamela Hearl; her sons, Timothy Walter Cole and Charles Anthony Cole; three brothers and five sisters.
Mary is survived by her son, Charles Walter “Junior” Cole, Jr. and his wife, Connie; her grandchildren, Seth Hearl, Mark Wagner, Christopher Cole, Tyler Cole and Jessee Cole; her great grandchildren, Haley, Trevor, Hannah, Roman, Ivan, Kennedy, Sebastian and Benjamin; Angie Miller, Kayla Hughes and Alli Miller, who Mary regarded as her own, and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Monday, November 4, 2024 from 11:00am to 1:00pm at East Stone Gap Baptist Church. The funeral will begin at 1:00pm with Dr. Lonnie Brooks officiating.
Graveside services will follow at Riverview Cemetery in East Stone Gap, VA. Family members will serve as pallbearers.
Gilliam Funeral Home and Crematory is honored to serve the family and friends of Mary Cole.
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