WAKE FOREST - Lottie Thelma Keith Pearce, 90, died Friday, July 3, 2009 at her home. Funeral services  were conducted Monday, July 6, with Pastor Michael Bass and the Rev. Julian Motley officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

She was born in Franklin County, the daughter of the late John Alfred Keith and Maude Myrtle Woodlief Keith. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church, where she was a Sunday school teacher, WMU member,  and choir member.

Surviving: daughters, Judith Pearce, Sylvia P. Ross (Allan); sisters, Ruth Mae White and Dorothy Perry; and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Melton Pearce; son, Malcolm David Pearce; sisters, Ruby Stephenson and Lucille Thompson; brothers, Raymond, Jack, John and Graham Keith.

Memorial contributions may be made to Oak Grove Baptist Church, 2124 Oak Grove Church Road, Youngsville, NC 27596, or Duke HomeCare and Hospice, 4321 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101, Durham, NC 27704.

A service of Bright Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Wake Forest.

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