Dickerson, Violet Elizabeth Anderson

Violet Elizabeth Anderson Dickerson, 82, of Pearisburg, Va., went to be with the Lord Monday evening, January 8, 2007 at Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital in Pearisburg.

Mrs. Dickerson was born on December 5, 1924 in Pembroke, Va., was a daughter of the late Hallie Burton Anderson and Geneva Chapman Anderson. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Millard J. Dickerson, Jr.; two sisters, Hattie Anderson, Lucile Wagner; one brother, Cecil Anderson; three sisters-in-law, Oretha Anderson, Margaret Dickerson, Glenna Dickerson and one brother-in-law, Ernest Banks.

Mrs. Dickerson was a former member, secretary, treasurer, choir member and Sunday school teacher of the First Baptist Church in Pembroke. Mrs. Dickerson is a current member of the First Baptist Church in Virginia Heights in Pearisburg where she enjoyed serving the Lord. She was also a former employee of the Celanese Corp. in Narrows, Va.

She is survived by two daughters, Mary Carol Dickerson Gray and husband Sam of Pearisburg, Jeanette Dickerson of Pearisburg; two sons, Danny L. Dickerson of Pearisburg and Stevie L. Dickerson and wife Tina of Blacksburg; three grandchildren, Michael L. Dickerson of Pearisburg, Ashley N. and Sierra R. Dickerson of Blacksburg; two sisters, Margaret Armistead of Washington, D.C., Ruth Anderson of Rich Creek, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Virginia Heights in Pearisburg with the Pastor Michael L. Bratton, the Rev. T.M. Stevens, the Rev. Gary Alexander and the Rev. James Cooper officiating with burial following in the Birchlawn Burial Park. The family will receive friends at the First Baptist Church Friday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Online funeral condolences can be sent to the family at givensfuneral home.com.