Surrounded by her loving family and welcomed into heaven by her husband and youngest daughter, Verna Parsons was called home to heaven on May 23, 2010, in Community Hospice Care Center in Ashland, Ky.
She was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Boyd County, Ky., the daughter of the late Everett E. and Sarah Crance Dixon. She was married to the Rev. Troy E. Parsons Sr., who predeceased her on May 27, 1965. She was also predeceased by a daughter, Pamela Marie Simpson; two sisters, Genevieve Murray and Drusella Wheatley; three brothers, Arvil Dixon, Everett E. Dixon Jr. and George Edward Dixon; and a granddaughter, Kathy Asbury Estepp.
Verna was one of the founders and a faithful member of Rose Road Chapel. She loved her church and even after she was disabled by a stroke, she was faithful in attendance. She loved her Lord and spent her lifetime in his service. She was a wonderful mother who loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her greatest earthly delight was having her family around her. She was a loving sister and aunt.
She is survived by a son, Troy E. Parsons Jr. and his wife Barbara; and three daughters, Bonnie Asbury and her husband Kelley of Catlettsburg, Ky., with whom she lived, Deanna Conley and her husband Charles R. Sr. of Dalzell, S.C., and Cathy Abney and her husband Jonathan of Ashland; 14 grandchildren, Sandra Gail Conley, Deborah Jo Parsons Allen and her husband Matt, April Simpson McFarlin and her husband Gregory, Charles R. Conley Jr., Troy E. Parsons III and his wife Lora, Melissa Parsons, Scott Baker, Gary Baker, Candy Abney Gillum and her husband Jonathan, Deanna Abney, Teresa Abney, Cheryl Asbury Black and her husband Scott, Angela Dee Asbury Stethen and her husband Mike and Susan Asbury Thornton and her husband, James; 15 great-grandchildren, Gregory McFarlin Jr., Heather McFarlin, Braden Weinfurtner, McKenna Allen, Reanna Allen, Olivia Parsons, Ethan Parsons, Cathy Conley, Malachi Gillum, Michael Jones, Mathew Stethen, Dylan Stethen, Kirstin Fowler, James Thornton II and Andrew Black.
Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Steen Funeral Home-13th Street Chapel in Ashland by the Rev. Leroy Dixon. Burial will follow in Golden Oaks Memorial Gardens in Ashland.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Friends may make contributions to Community Hospice, 1538 Central Ave., Ashland, KY 41101.
Online condolences may be made to www.steenfuneralhomes.com.
