Obituary of Mary Ann Price Guthrie ~ 2005

Transcribed by Joan S Dunn

Source: The Fayetteville Observer Dec 25 2005

Mrs. Mary Ann Price Guthrie, 95, a longtime resident of Fayetteville, died 
Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005, at St. Joseph of the Pines Health System in 
Southern Pines after battling Alzheimers disease for 12 years.  
Born in Pamlico County on Aug. 14, 1910, she was the daughter of the late 
Luther Lawrence and Lydia Francis Price.  She was an active member of 
First Baptist Church in Fayetteville for many years. She served on various 
committees and taught the Fidelis Sunday school class for 35 years.  
After raising three children, she fulfilled a keen interest she had in 
business by becoming a Realtor. For some 25 years, she gained much 
pleasure from this venture and received recognition and awards for her 
efforts in this field.  
Mrs. Guthrie was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, the Rev. 
Walton B. Guthrie Sr., an ordained Baptist minister; a daughter, Mary 
Louise Jersey Martin; a brother, Herman S. Price; and a sister, Lura B. 
Hunnings.  
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, at 
Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home chapel, 545 Ramsey St., by the Rev. A. Edward 
Beddingfield. Burial will follow at Lafayette Memorial Park on Ramsey 
Street.  
The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral 
home.  
She is survived by her son, Walton B. Guthrie Jr. of Fayetteville; a 
daughter, Alice Ann Maxwell and her husband, Jack C. Maxwell, of Sanford; 
two granddaughters, Susan M. Weunski and her husband, Mike, of Sanford, 
and Kathryn M. Galvin of Raleigh; a grandson, Lawrence L. Jersey and his 
wife, Patricia, of Greeneville, Tenn.; a great-granddaughter, Mary Kathryn
Weunski; and four great-grandsons, Michael Price Weunski, Maxwell Paul 
Weunski, Daniel Jersey and Dale Jersey.  
If one wishes, memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 201 Anderson 
St., Fayetteville, NC 28301; or to a charity of one's choice.  
Services entrusted to Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home.





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