Billie Jo McMullen, 86 years old, passed peacefully at home on October 12, 2017.
Born in Jonesville, Virginia on June 8, 1931 to Joseph and Nell (Wilder) Warner. Billie Jo was a graduate of Buchanan High School, a Realtor, a member of the Million Dollar Sales Club, the Buchanan Professional Business Woman’s Club, and the Buchanan Historical Society. She was a beautiful woman of strong character who was dedicated to family and friends. Billie Jo always loved Virginia where she was born and will be returned to. She is survived by her daughters, Vicki Graybosch and Linda Schau; her grandchildren, Kimberly Trowlnan, Gabriel (Maegin) Walker, Christian (Kelly) Schau and great grandson, Roman Walker. Also surviving is her sister, Phylis Turner and numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Lyle McMullen, and her siblings, sister Jean Irwin, and Herman Warner. A special thanks to Hospice.
Cremation has taken place. Family will have a private service at a later date.
Online condolences may be made at www.hovenfunerals.com.
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says: “There, she is gone”. “Gone where?” Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “Here she comes!”. And that is dying.