Beulah Flanary

Beulah Greear Flanary.
Beulah Flanary passed into her eternal home on Monday, September 29, 2014 in Greenville, South Carolina after a brief illness. She was 99 years young. Mrs. Flanary was born on May 3, 1915 in Hunters Valley, Virginia. She attended school in Dungannon, Virginia and later married her sweetheart, Edward Ralph Flanary of Fort Blackmore, Virginia on January 6, 1937.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 71 years, Edward Ralph Flanary, Sr., her mother and father, Charles Lee and Kate Osborne Greear, and siblings Lee, Margaret and Ray Greear, as well as an infant brother. She is further predeceased by a niece, Mary Greear McCarty
Mrs. Flanary is survived by her six children, Jean McReynolds and husband Joe of Bristol, Virginia; Barbara Button and husband Gilbert of Greenville, SC; Carolyn Helms and husband Fred of Gate City, Virginia; Edward Ralph Flanary, Jr. and wife Joli of Greenville, South Carolina; Kathy Hall of Floyd, Virginia; Patty Sanders of Greenville, South Carolina. Mrs. Flanary is further survived by 16 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, a very special sister-in-law, Elsie Greear of Dungannon, Virginia, and several great nieces and a great nephew.
Mrs. Flanary was a lifelong homemaker and nurturer of her six children. She was active in her community and she maintained life-long relationships even though she moved away from her beloved Dungannon. Her husband, Ralph, accepted the call of the ministry in 1953 and Mrs. Flanary served alongside her husband in his pastorship of Dungannon Free Will Baptist Church, Buffalo Free Will Baptist Church, Bull Run Free Will Baptist Church, Woodway Free Will Baptist Church, and Rock Hill Free Will Baptist Church, among others.
The family will receive friends at the Gate City Funeral Home in Gate City, Virginia beginning at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, and the funeral services will be held in the Gene Falin Memorial chapel of the funeral home at 1:30 p.m., with the Reverend Darrell Pickle and the Reverend Steve Collins officiating. The graveside service will immediately follow at the Osborne Cemetery in Hardwood, Virginia.
Mrs. Flanary’s grandsons will serve as pallbearers and her sons-in-law will serve as honorary pallbearers.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First Free Will Baptist Church, 1741 Euclid Avenue, Bristol, Virginia 24201 or the Bill Rice Ranch, 627 Bill Rice Ranch Road, Murfreesboro, TN 37128-4555.
An online guest register is available for the Flanary family at www.gatecityfunerals.com.
Gate City Funeral Home is honored to be serving the family of Beulah Greear Flanary.