FAYE SANDERS BUNN
Feb. 28, 1926-May 24, 2016
Faye Sanders Bunn, 90, Spring Hope, passed away Tuesday.
Her funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday at Joyner's Funeral Home of Wilson. Interment will follow in Bailey Town Cemetery of Bailey. The Rev. Tim Hopkins will officiate.
The family will receive friends Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Joyner's Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway, Wilson, and other times at the home of her daughter, Harriet Cook.
Ms. Faye was blessed with a long and full life. She was creative in every sense of the word.
She designed and created her own wedding dress at age 19.
She married Braxton Bunn, the love of her life, and she loved being a farmer's wife. Ms. Faye raised chickens, and made her weekly trek to Rocky Mount to sell eggs to a local grocery.
Her days were filled with growing vegetables and canning and freezing them. Family and friends savored the fruits of her labor like wonderful pound cakes, banana and pumpkin bread and cookies, along with cucumber pickles and jams of peaches, strawberries blue and blackberries.
She also cooked for the "farmhands," and transported meals to Braxton's farm in Tarboro the days they "barned tobacco" there, which often would include homemade ice cream that everyone loved.
When her daughters were young, she would stroll the streets of downtown Raleigh and stand by department store windows and sketch little girl's dresses, and then she would go home and create them for Freida and Harriet.
While living at Parkwood Village, she delighted in showing pictures of her little girls in those dresses.
Ms. Faye was very proud of her family lineage and Southern heritage, and was an active member for many years in the Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames and United Daughters of the Confederacy.
She took pleasure in helping decorate for weddings and special events using the flowers she grew in her yard. Ms. Faye made hundreds of bouquets for her church over the years.
She would welcome friends stopping by and walking around for a tour while she told stories about the origin of all her plants and flowers. She would gladly dig and share any plants her visitors liked. Ms. Faye continued to garden with her beloved friend and helper, Chester Farmer, who patiently followed her meticulous instructions on where to dig and what to cut.
Her daughters finally convinced her to give it up at age 88 when she moved to Parkwood Village. She spent the last 14 months of her life there, where she made new friends and developed wonderful relationships with her caregivers, who were angels from God. Their loving care will always be remembered by her family.
Ms. Faye is survived by her daughters, Harriet Bunn Cook and husband, Fred, of Spring Hope and Freida Bunn Hood and husband, Danny; her grandson, Braxton Daniel Hood all of Goldsboro; and her sister, Dr. Betty Jean Foust of Raleigh.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Braxton Bunn; her parents, John and Lottie Godfrey Sanders; and sister, Eloise Currin.
Flowers are welcome or memorials in Faye's memory can be directed to the Hospice of Wilson, 1705 Tarboro St. South, Wilson, N.C., 27893, or White Oak United Methodist Church, 2969 Pattie Boone Road, Nashville, N.C., 27856.
Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.
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Published in Obituaries on May 26, 2016 1:49 PM