Florence Canaday

Four Oaks, NC : Mrs. Florence Stanley Canaday, age 95 of 1564 Thompson Road passed away Tuesday at her home with her family by her side . Funeral Services will be held 10:00AM-Friday at the Piney Grove Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church of Four Oaks. Rev. Murray King,  Rev. Sherwood Lassiter, and Jeremy Canaday will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Mrs. Canaday was born March 24, 1920 in Johnston County to the late Vestus & Nellie Johnson Stanley. She was a homemaker and retired from Jerold Corporation with over 20 years of service. She was preceded in death by her husband, John G. "Rusty" Canaday, sister, Irene S. Rhodes and brother, Chester Stanley. She was the oldest and longest living member of Piney Grove Pentecostal Free Will  Baptist Church. She was devoted to her God, family, church family, extended family and friends.  She enjoyed reading her Bible and newspaper.  She unconditionally loved all her family. Her strength, faith and commitment have been an inspiration to her family.  Our family gives thanks to God for the blessing of her long Christian life.     Surviving are daughters & son-in-law, Wilma Joyce & William Lassiter of Four Oaks and Linda Sue Canaday of Four Oaks; son & daughter-in-law, Durwood & Lisa Canaday of Benson;  grandchildren, Jonathan & Joy Canaday of Four Oaks, Jeremy & Ashlee Canaday of Clayton & Cameron Pendergraph of Benson;  great-grandchildren, Nathan & Addison Canaday of Four Oaks; Several nephews and a niece.  The family will receive friends from 6:00PM-8:00PM Thursday at Rose & Graham Funeral Home in Four Oaks Flowers are welcomed, however, memorials may be made to Piney Grove Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, C/O Vicky Lindsay, 9381 B. US HWY 301 S. Four Oaks, NC 27524.