Mrs. Nona Mayo Newberry, 101, recently of Terra Ceia and formerly a resident of the Acre Station community, died Sunday, May 8, 2011, at home.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at Paul Funeral Home and Crematory of Washington and will be conducted by Billy Ray Askew. Burial will follow in Pamlico Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Newberry’s grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Mrs. Newberry was a hard working mother and homemaker, and at times a composer, musician, and a poet but she took her greatest joy from service to her Lord. Mrs. Newberry served in the church faithfully for many years in several capacities, none of which were more appreciated than her musical contributions to the worship services and Sunday school. She generously fed many a country preacher around her kitchen table after their work was done at the church.

Mrs. Newberry was born in the Campbells Creek area of Beaufort County on Dec. 6, 1909. She was the daughter of the late Francis Mayo and Lula Powers Mayo. She married Joseph Henry Newberry on July 8, 1934. Mr. Newberry was the widowed father of five children at the time of their marriage and to this family was eventually added four more children. Mr. Newberry died in 1969.

The surviving children are Eula Cohran of Greenville, Inez Harris of Chesapeake, Va., Frances Rabil of Louisburg and her husband Ed, Elizabeth (Tootsie) Cutler of Terra Ceia, and Joseph Henry Newberry Jr. of Goldsboro and “other daughter” Velna Newberry. The children who predeceased Mrs. Newberry were Ruth, Thorne, Clifton, and Gene Douglas Newberry. Mrs. Newberry’s much-loved siblings Marguerite, Elizabeth, Ruby, Taylor, John, George, and Junior preceded her in death. There are grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and many of their friends who will miss “Grandma Strawberry” as she was teasingly nicknamed in the years when we roamed her strawberry beds and played under her watchful eyes.

The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, 2011, at Paul Funeral Home and Crematory of Washington and other times at the home of her daughter Elizabeth “Tootsie” Cutler, 80 Vreugdenhil Road, Pantego, N.C.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice.

You may address condolences to the Newberry family by visiting www.paulfuneralhome.com.

Paul Funeral Home and Crematory of Washington is honored to serve the Newberry family.

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