Services for Mary Vondell Faglie, 90, of Canton, were held Sunday, May 27, 2018, at the Eubank Funeral Home in Canton with Bro. James Nickell and Bro. Bill Parr officiating. Interment was in Cox Cemetery.
She passed away May 23, 2018, in Tyler. She was born Aug. 11, 1927, in Martins Mill to Horace Boyce and Mary Alma Henderson Mann.
After graduating from Martins Mill High School in 1945, she moved to Dallas and worked for Sears. She married William "Bill" G. Faglie on Feb. 22, 1945.
She spent most of her life as a homemaker with jobs outside the home. She helped on the family farm in the peach orchard from which peaches were picked, sorted, packed, and taken to the Dallas Farmers' Market.
Later, she became one of the Palace Drug Store ladies working at the soda fountain and lunch counter. She worked as a bookkeeper for her husband's construction business and then worked for the Little Hope Moore Community Water Company.
She enjoyed volunteering and serving at Little Hope Baptist Church of which she was a member for some 71 years.
Her gift of hospitality was enjoyed by many. It was her delight for people to stop in and sit at her table to share a meal or just savor a cookie or two, which most likely were fresh from her oven.
She was an excellent seamstress, able to look at a garment or the picture of one and make a copy to look like one that was purchased. She turned many feed sacks into school dresses for her girls.
She was an avid quilter. Enjoying the craft of quilt-making many years, at age 89, she cut fabric blocks and stitched them together making her last quilt top.
Other hobbies she took time to enjoy were ceramics, scrapbooking, and making pin cushion hats.
She is preceded in death by her husband of almost 68 years, W.G. Faglie, Jr.; her parents, Horace and Alma Mann; three brothers and one sister.
She is survived by her two daughters and their husbands, Janet and Roger Ward of Canton and Linda and Macky Lewis of Eustace; five grandchildren, Danny and Kathryn Ward, Kenneth and Tonda Ward, Brad and Kate Lewis, Colby and Linsey Lewis and Rebecca Lewis; six great-grandchildren, Abby Ward, Kyla Ward, Samantha Lewis, Kiersten Lewis, Emma Lewis and Derek Lewis; two sisters, Eloise Pickens of Bufford, Ga. and Marvelene Welsh of Lancaster; and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were Craig Rogers, Tom Byrd, Charles Baskin, Bill Goggins, Jeremy Meredith, and Harry Pickens.