GREENSBORO — This area lost a beloved friend on January 28 when Millicent Rose Saunders passed from this life to the next. She passed at the Adams Farm Rehabilitation Center where she had been recovering from a debilitating stroke. As she always said, "when life deals you lemons, make lemonade," and during the two years of difficult rehabilitation following the stroke, that is exactly what she did, never giving up and winning many new friends among the staff. She was 81 years old.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Jamestown United Methodist Church. Internment will follow in Guilford Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Millie's home after the funeral.
"Millie," or as some of her old friends occasionally called her, "Rosebud," grew up in Oakdale and attended Jamestown school. She loved the school and later in life, she was active in the movement to "save the old school" and convert it into the Jamestown public library.
After high school, she attended Woman's College in Greensboro (later UNC-G). Afterwards, she worked as a secretary at Highland Container Company in Jamestown. During this time, she was introduced to the man who became the love of her life, Bill Saunders, with whom she shared a very happy marriage of over 50 years.
Bill Saunders established a dental practice in Greensboro, and they settled in Jamestown, and became founding members of Jamestown United Methodist Church in 1948. Millie was very active at the church for the remainder of her life, working at the Thrift Store, visiting shut-ins weekly, and serving on the Circle of Courage. Following her husband's death, she established a scholarship fund in his memory at the Church with two requirements: be active in the church and have a sense of humor, the two things she felt were most important to living a happy life and surviving life's up's and down's. Millie herself had a wonderful and infectious sense of humor, which never wavered, which brightened many a
High Point Enterprise (NC) - Thursday, January 29, 2009
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Jamestown United Methodist Church. Internment will follow in Guilford Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Millie's home after the funeral.
"Millie," or as some of her old friends occasionally called her, "Rosebud," grew up in Oakdale and attended Jamestown school. She loved the school and later in life, she was active in the movement to "save the old school" and convert it into the Jamestown public library.
After high school, she attended Woman's College in Greensboro (later UNC-G). Afterwards, she worked as a secretary at Highland Container Company in Jamestown. During this time, she was introduced to the man who became the love of her life, Bill Saunders, with whom she shared a very happy marriage of over 50 years.
Bill Saunders established a dental practice in Greensboro, and they settled in Jamestown, and became founding members of Jamestown United Methodist Church in 1948. Millie was very active at the church for the remainder of her life, working at the Thrift Store, visiting shut-ins weekly, and serving on the Circle of Courage. Following her husband's death, she established a scholarship fund in his memory at the Church with two requirements: be active in the church and have a sense of humor, the two things she felt were most important to living a happy life and surviving life's up's and down's. Millie herself had a wonderful and infectious sense of humor, which never wavered, which brightened many a
High Point Enterprise (NC) - Thursday, January 29, 2009
GREENSBORO — This area lost a beloved friend on January 28 when Millicent Rose Saunders passed from this life to the next. She passed at the Adams Farm Rehabilitation Center where she had been recovering from a debilitating stroke. As she always said, "when life deals you lemons, make lemonade," and during the two years of difficult rehabilitation following the stroke, that is exactly what she did, never giving up and winning many new friends among the staff. She was 81 years old.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Jamestown United Methodist Church. Internment will follow in Guilford Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Millie's home after the funeral.
"Millie," or as some of her old friends occasionally called her, "Rosebud," grew up in Oakdale and attended Jamestown school. She loved the school and later in life, she was active in the movement to "save the old school" and convert it into the Jamestown public library.
After high school, she attended Woman's College in Greensboro (later UNC-G). Afterwards, she worked as a secretary at Highland Container Company in Jamestown. During this time, she was introduced to the man who became the love of her life, Bill Saunders, with whom she shared a very happy marriage of over 50 years.
Bill Saunders established a dental practice in Greensboro, and they settled in Jamestown, and became founding members of Jamestown United Methodist Church in 1948. Millie was very active at the church for the remainder of her life, working at the Thrift Store, visiting shut-ins weekly, and serving on the Circle of Courage. Following her husband's death, she established a scholarship fund in his memory at the Church with two requirements: be active in the church and have a sense of humor, the two things she felt were most important to living a happy life and surviving life's up's and down's. Millie herself had a wonderful and infectious sense of humor, which never wavered, which brightened many a
High Point Enterprise (NC) - Thursday, January 29, 2009
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Jamestown United Methodist Church. Internment will follow in Guilford Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Millie's home after the funeral.
"Millie," or as some of her old friends occasionally called her, "Rosebud," grew up in Oakdale and attended Jamestown school. She loved the school and later in life, she was active in the movement to "save the old school" and convert it into the Jamestown public library.
After high school, she attended Woman's College in Greensboro (later UNC-G). Afterwards, she worked as a secretary at Highland Container Company in Jamestown. During this time, she was introduced to the man who became the love of her life, Bill Saunders, with whom she shared a very happy marriage of over 50 years.
Bill Saunders established a dental practice in Greensboro, and they settled in Jamestown, and became founding members of Jamestown United Methodist Church in 1948. Millie was very active at the church for the remainder of her life, working at the Thrift Store, visiting shut-ins weekly, and serving on the Circle of Courage. Following her husband's death, she established a scholarship fund in his memory at the Church with two requirements: be active in the church and have a sense of humor, the two things she felt were most important to living a happy life and surviving life's up's and down's. Millie herself had a wonderful and infectious sense of humor, which never wavered, which brightened many a
High Point Enterprise (NC) - Thursday, January 29, 2009
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