LOUISBURG - Julia Sanders Holt Kornegay, 90 of Louisburg died Tuesday, October 14, 2008 in Franklin Regional Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11:00 a.m. from Louisburg United Methodist Church with Rev. Earl Dulaney officiating. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Kornegay was predeceased by her husband, Roger Alton Kornegay; parents, Edgar and Cornelia Sanders Holt; and siblings, Etheldred Holt and Martitia Gurley, all of Princeton, North Carolina. She is survived by three sons and a daughter-in-law, Roger, John and Rene’, and Holt of Franklin County; grandchildren and spouses Cory and Brooke of Boone, Chance of Greenville, and Cutler and Cheryl and their children, Cai and Garbiel, of Wake Forest, NC; brother, Edgar A. Holt; and a sister, Elizabeth Susan Massengill, both of Princeton.

Mrs. Kornegay was a longtime faculty member of Louisburg College where she pursued a career that she loved, teaching Art History, Education and Ceramics. She prepared for and continued her studies in art and sociology at Louisburg College, the Universities of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and California, Domiges Hills. She served as women’s student body president at Louisburg College and was a member of Chi Omega sorority at UNC.

The family will receive friends Wednesday and Thursday after 2:00 p.m. at the home, 405 W. Noble Street, Louisburg.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the Louisburg United Methodist Church P. O. Box 667, Louisburg, NC 27549 and the Franklin County Library, 906 N. Main Street, Louisburg, NC 27549.

Arrangements are being handled by Lancaster Funeral and Cremation Services, 804 N. Bickett Boulevard, Louisburg. Online condolences may be made to www.lancasterfcs.com.

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