Nellie Swaim Browning

Nellie Leona Swaim Browning, 91, Haden Grove Church Road, formerly of Tilden Nursery Road, passed away Sunday, July 10, 2011, at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington Medical Center. The funeral will be 12 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel with Preacher Clyde Akers officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home. Mrs. Browning was born January 28, 1920, in Yadkin County, to William Silas Swaim and Arendy Victoria Turner Swaim. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John Browning; a son, Randy Joe Thomas; and a daughter, Peggy O’Neill. Surviving are grandchildren, Shelia Everhart and husband, Elvis, Randy Sneed and friend, Vickie, and Brian Sneed and wife, Minnie; great-grandchildren, Joshua Newman, Nathan Newman, Crystal Sneed, Arendy Melissa Everhart, James Everhart and friend, Misty, Shannon Stafford and friend, Robby, Deborah Tucker and friend, Mark Bailey, Ray Wright and wife, Jenni, Crystal Wright and friend, Jim, Bonnie Vanderelst and husband, Jeremy, Suzy Moody and husband, Brooks, Michael O’Neill and Melanie O’Neill; great-great-grandchildren, Brandon Everhart, Zyler Starbuck, Michael “Mikey” Starbuck, Sunny Marshall, Layla Lampie, Dycen Everhart, Colten Everhart, Josh Vanderelst, Nicholas Vanderelst, Gabriel Peterson, Faith Jackson, Katilyn Moody, Christian Moody, Lucas Moody, Nathan Wright, Zander Bailey, Aaron Bailey, Matthew Lovett, Donavan Lovett, Amber O’Neill, and Elizabeth O’Neill; and sisters, Bessie Johnson of Harmony and Pauline Majors of Indiana. Memorials may be made to Freedom Missionary Baptist Church P.O. Box 1242, Lexington, NC 27293.