Pennington, Louise Wilburn

Louise Wilburn Pennington, 81, of Pearisburg, Va., passed away Saturday night, July 5, 2008, at Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital in Pearisburg, Va.

Mrs. Pennington was born in Pearisburg on September 18, 1926, and was a daughter of the late Emmett Woodson Wilburn and Edna Journell Wilburn. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Kent Ray Pennington; one son, Kent Wilburn Pennington; two sisters, Mary Evelyn Gilbert and Gladys Ruth Pritchard; two brothers, Clarence Wilburn and Graham Lewis Wilburn; and many nieces and nephews.

Louise was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Pearisburg for over 50 years and was a retired employee of the Kroger Company. Mrs. Pennington’s ancestors include John Chapman, who received the first land grant in the area and William Wilburn who was one of the first settlers of Giles County.

She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Sandra P. and Gary W. Johnson, of Asheville, N.C., and Linda P. and Raymond G. Luttner, of Brunswick, Ohio; two grandchildren, P. Andrew Johnson, of Annapolis, Md., and B. Parker Johnson, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; one brother-in-law, Merel B. Pennington and wife, Frances, of Lakeland, Fla.; one nephew, C. Woodson Wilburn and wife, Dot, of Salem; and a niece, Mary Jane Russell, of Danville.

Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, 2008, at the Givens Funeral Chapel with the Dr. Fred L. Austin officiating with burial following in the Birchlawn Burial Park in Pearisburg. The family will receive friends at the Givens Funeral Home on Wednesday, July 9, 2008, from 6 to 8 p.m. Please use the Church Street entrance. Online condolences can be sent to the family at givensfuneralhome.com.