Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, November 26, 1993 TAG: 9311260133
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE:
DATELINE: THAXTON LENGTH: Short
OBIT NESTER, GERTRUDE CREASEY
NESTER, Gertrude Creasey, 85, of Thaxton, passed away Wednesday, November
24, 1993, in the Bedford County Memorial Hospital. She was born April 1, 1908,
in Bedford County, a daughter of the late Jesse Creasey and Effie Creasey
Creasey. Her husband was the late Sidney Albert Nester. She attended the
Irving Pentecostal Holiness Church. She is survived by four sons, Ray Nester,
Wayne Nester, James Nester, all of Bedford, Bill Nester, Thaxton; six
daughters, Gladys Dooley, Bedford, Catherine Carter, Thaxton, Shirley Nichols,
Salem, Betty Goff, Peggy Goff, both of Big Island, Nancy Carter, Montvale; one
sister, Inez Orange, Thaxton; 29 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, November 27, 1993, at 2 p.m. from
the Updike Funeral Home Chapel, Bedford, by the Rev. Ralph Lawhorn. Interment
will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends today
from 7 to 9 p.m. at Updike Funeral Home, Bedford, and other times at the
residence of Wayne & Peggy Nester.
by CNB