Mary “Magdalene” Mills Waters

Published 8:06 pm Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Mrs. Mary “Magdalene” Mills Waters, 87, passed away Monday, June 27, 2016.

The funeral service will be held Thursday at 2 PM in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in Pinewood Memorial Park.

Mrs. Waters was born in Pitt County and lived her entire life there. She worked for many years for Greenville Packing and later at her husband’s company, Waters Home Improvements. Mrs. Waters was a longtime member of the Greenville Church of God and she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and a devoted caregiver to her husband during the last years of his life.

Mrs. Waters was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Isaac Waters; her only child, Thomas Carlton Waters; brothers, Thurman Mills, Marvin Mills and Eugene Mills; and sisters, Dora Lee Lassiter, Elsie Smith and Ruth Hudson.

She is survived by her grandchildren, Becky Waters, Thomas Nathan Waters, both of Greenville, Mary Beth Waters Hickok and husband, Kevin, of Chesapeake, VA, and Sally Waters Karako of Greenville; great-grandchildren, Hunter Smith, Nathanael Hickok, Tiffany Hickok, Kayla Karako and Patricia Hickok; sisters, Faye Rouse of Winterville and Lou Ellen Sanders of Ayden; brother, Bobby Mills and wife, Delores, of Winterville; and sister-in-law, Amy Mills of Greenville; and beloved family friends, Terry Smith, Richie Koonce, Hazel Baker, Lib McKinney, Joyce Garris, Robin Brumfield, Richard and Kathy Minnick and their children, and Tom and Cathy Marsh and their children.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to the countless other friends and her beloved church family who played a special part in her life.

The family will receive friends Wednesday from 6 to 8 PM at Wilkerson Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75265-0309 or to the Greenville Church of God, 3105 S. Memorial Dr., Greenville, NC 27834.

Online condolences at www.wilkersonfuneralhome.com.