Tassie Mae Winstead Kestner

Tassie Mae Winstead Kestner
July 11, 1928 -June 27, 2013

Tassie Mae Winstead Kestner, 84, of Bailey passed way Thursday.   Funeral services will be conducted 3 p.m. Sunday, June 30, 2013 at Thompson Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church, 5620 Thompson Chapel Church Road, Wilson.   Interment will follow in the church cemetery.   The Pastor Pam Denton and Pastor Mike Burney will officiate.

The family will receive friends 2 -2:45 p.m. Sunday prior to the service at Thompson Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Tassie was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend to all that she knew.   She will be missed and thought of often with memories that will bring joy to their hearts.   Tassie was a member of the Thompson Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church.  

Tassie is survived by her daughters, Teresa Hendricks and husband, Scott of Bailey and Pat Weaser and husband, Joey of Portsmouth, VA; her sons, Gregory ??Greg-Gurganus and wife, Zunia of Virginia Beach, VA and James Gurganus and wife, Freda of Moyock; her seven grandchildren; her six great-grandchildren; her sisters, Geneva Glover of Nashville, Margie Boykin of Wilson and Ruby Baker of Suffolk, VA; her brother, Sam ??Mickey-Winstead of Wilson and ??Bandit-her beloved canine buddy.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Kestner and her son, Albert Gurganus.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to Thompson Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church, 5620 Thompson Chapel Church Road, Wilson, NC 27896.

Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.