Mamie Burks Gunter, 92, of Mockingbird Lane, Gladstone, died Wednesday, May 21, 2008, in the Appomattox Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was the wife of the late Thomas William Gunter.
Born in Nelson County, January 31, 1916, she was a daughter of the late Clifford Winston Burks and Mattie Francis Berkeley Burks. Mamie was a poet, a strong woman of faith and a prayer warrior. She was a member of the Appomattox Pentecostal Holiness Church and an active participant in the House of Prayer and Revival Center in Buckingham.
She is survived by three children and their spouses, Aline and James M. Robertson, Richard E. and Mary Gunter all of Buckingham, and Kathy and Charles H. Seay of Appomattox; two grandchildren, Robin Branch Burrage and her husband Steven, and Neal Gunter; special friends, Curtis and Donna Walkup and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a grandson, Steven Douglas Branch; four brothers, Effie Burks, Claude Burks, Ivey Burks, and Walter Burks; and three sisters, Lena Childress, Maude Bryant, and Minnie Bryant.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 24, 2008 at Robinson Funeral Home by the Rev. Larry Clark, the Rev. Oscar Bryant, and the Rev. Charlie Spencer. Burial will be private at the Branch Family Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home following the service.
The family wishes to thank the staff of the Appomattox Health and Rehabilitation Center and the Hospice of Virginia for their care and support.
Those wishing to make memorials please consider the Hospice of Virginia, 202 Clark Street, Farmville, VA 23901 or a charity of your choice.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8.