Grayce Underwood

Grayce Brizendine Underwood, 73, a resident of Hopewell for over 50 years, died Sunday, April 22, 2007, at Johnston Willis Medical Center. She was born and raised in the mountains of Virginia and enjoyed a second home in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Mrs. Underwood, a devoted mother, mother-in-law and grandmother, was a retired microscopy lab technician with Honeywell. She studied Reike healing and was a co-founder and member of The People of the Ambers, A Wayshower for the Association for Research and Enlightenment and an inactive member of The Women of the Moose. She was preceded in death by her parents, Harold Victor and Nellie Grace Brizendine, her husband, E. Phillip Underwood, a sister, Ella Mae Lee, and an infant daughter, Judy Grace Carr. She is survived by a daughter, Kelly C. Tiller and husband, Bill, two sons, Barry J. Carr and wife, Toni, all of Hopewell, and Donald W. Carr and wife, Michelle, of Kill Devil Hills, NC, three grandsons, Jedediah Carr of Fairfax, VA , and Noah Carr of Hopewell, and Adam Tiller and fiancé, Leslie Lopez, of Richmond, two brothers, Lloyd V. Brizendine and wife, Carole, and Thurman M. Brizendine all of New Castle, VA., and several beloved nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, from 7 â?? 8:30 p.m. at the Hopewell Chapel of J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home and Cremation Service. A funeral service will be held in the chapel on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 10 a.m. with The Rev. Jeff Raymond, pastor of First Baptist Church, Hopewell, officiating. Interment will be in Blandford Cemetery Petersburg. Condolences may be registered with www.jtmorriss.com .