Marion Jeff Waldrop

ASHEVILLE - MARION JEFF WALDROP, 91, OF 249 OLD WEAVERVILLE ROAD WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23, 2000 AT THE ASTON PARK HEALTH CARE CENTER. A NATIVE OF MADISON COUNTY HE HAD LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY. HE WAS A RETIRED CARPENTER , A MEMBER OF NEWBRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH AND A WW II ARMY VETERAN. HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH YOULES AND EMMA McHONE WALDROP AND HUSBAND OF THE LATE MAGGIE SURRETT WALDROP AND CHRISTINE HUNTLEY WALDROP. HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SISTERS, RUBY ROGERS AND ALETHA LAWRENCE AND FOUR BROTHERS, OLUS WALDROP, J. Y. WALDROP, JR., PHIL WALDROP AND FRED WALDROP. SURVIVING ARE HIS DAUGHTER, ALMA CAPPS OF ASHEVILLE; TWO BROTHERS, WOODARD WALDROP OF WEAVERVILLE AND ROY WALDROP OF MARSHALL; TWO GRANDCHILDREN; FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; ONE GREAT GREAT GRANDSON; FIVE STEP GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE STEP GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER. FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 4:00 P.M. SUNDAY AT ANDERS-RICE FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. BILL HIGGINS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE ALEXANDER CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY. THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS 7 TO 9:00 P.M. SATURDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME.