Hazel Wooten Peele

Hazel Ellen Wooten Peele January 19, 1926 - April 27, 2012 JONESVILLE - Mrs. Hazel Ellen Wooten Peele (also known as Momma, Grandma, Momma Hazel, Granny and Gigi), age 86, passed away Friday afternoon, April 27, 2012, at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin, North Carolina, after an illness of three months. She was born in Yadkin County to Carl Winfield and Annie Sloop Wooten on January 19, 1926. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister and brother-in-law, Thelma Cheek Swaim and Kermit Cheek; by her brother and sister-in-law, Harrison Eugene (Red) Wooten and Marybelle Reid Wooten; by her brother and nephew, John Winfield Wooten and John Thomas (Tommy) Wooten. She was a member of Branon Friends Meeting and retired from Chatham Manufacturing Company in Elkin, NC. On January 1, 1947, Hazel married Claude Elmer (Shorty) Peele and they were married almost thirteen years when Shorty passed away on December 23, 1959. They had one daughter, Patricia Ann (Pat) Peele Seagraves who survives of the home that was shared with Pat's family and her mom for many, many years. Pat married Charlie Ray Seagraves who took great care of Hazel after he retired until his death on January 18, 2010. Ray and Pat had a son, Claude Eric Seagraves, the light of his Grandma's eye. Eric could get Hazel to do things Ray and Pat could not. On December 31, 1998, Eric married the love of his life, Candy Hudspeth. Eli Maverick Seagraves (also the light of Gigi's eye) was born to Candy and Eric on January 18, 2010. Sadly, Eric passed away on July 16, 2011. Candy and Eli survive and live in Nashville, TN. Ray and Pat also had a premature Baby Girl, January 17, 1974, and a Baby Boy, June 7, 1975. Hazel is also survived by a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Leamer Peele Pinnix and Dorman Pinnix of Ronda, NC; two sisters-in-law, Lillian Hobson Wooten of Yadkinville, NC, and Margie White Peele Curran of Norwood, MA, and several nieces and nephews that she loved very much. Candy's family, Ronnie and Monna Hudspeth, Donald (Pa) Hudspeth, Mickey and Joyell Leonard and their children, Savanna, Rylee, Jessi and Dakotah, was very special to Hazel. She was also preceded in death by Shorty's family: Leo and Dorothy Woodruff Peele, R. F. and Leona Peele Ball, John Wesley Peele and Leo (Junior) Peele. It is hard to name all the family and friends that helped with her care throughout the last seven years for which the family is most grateful. The family will receive friends from 6-8 PM Monday April 30, 2012 at Gentry Family Funeral Service in Jonesville. Her funeral service will be held 2:00 PM Tuesday May 1, 2012 at Branon Friends Meeting by Rev. Hewey Parrish and Rev. Jimmy Pulley. She will lie in-state 30 minutes prior to the service. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to a charity of the donors choice. Online condolences may be made to www.gentryfuneralservice.com.