Marion Peoples Staples transitioned from this life on Monday, March 4, 2019. Her funeral will be held 12:00Pm on Monday, March 11, 2019 at Swift Street AME Zion Church, 4408 Swift St, Greensboro, NC. Visitations will start 30min prior to the service at the church. Interment will follow in Guilford Memorial Park.
She was born to the late Gemina Peoples and Henry Padgett in Greensboro, NC. She was raised by Reverend Joe and Lucille Smith. Marion graduated from Dudley High School in 1942. She was employed with UNC of Greensboro for twenty years. She was kind, generous, loving, outspoken, quite feisty, and had a great love for family and friends. She spent many loving hours nurturing her extend family at Anointed Acres.
Marion served as the President of the Pastor Aide, Secretary of General Claims, Deaconess, and sung on the choir. She was preceded in death by her husband Robert Lee Staples and grandson, Bryant K. Staples, Jr.
Those left to cherish fond memories include: three sons, Wayne Staples (Evelyn) of Kenbridge, VA, Phillip Staples (Sabra), and Bryant Staples (Flora); one daughter, Cheryl Poteat (James) of Greensboro, NC; seven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, and a host of others very special relatives, friends and special friends at Anointed Acres Senior Retirement Apartments.
Woodard Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.