- Date Of Birth: April 22, 1941
- Date Of Death: November 1, 2015
- State: Georgia
Anita Yuvonne Meers Pierce, 74, of Conyers, Georgia, died at home on Sunday, November 1, 2015. She was born on April 22, 1941 in Oakdale, Tennessee, daughter of the late Wilburn Jesse Meers and Alice Nida Stanfield Meers. She married the love of her life, Harold Eugene Pierce, in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on August 24, 1957, and they were devoted to each other for the more than fifty-eight years they shared together. They raised their three children in Fort Oglethorpe, and later moved to Roanoke, Virginia, and Conyers, Georgia for Harold’s career with Norfolk Southern Corporation. Over the years, Yuvonne worked in banking, law, and real estate. She retired from the railroad, as did her husband, but the primary focus of her life was her family. She was never happier than in the company of her husband and children, as well as the four-legged members of her family. She also dearly loved her extended family. She took great delight in the beauty of God’s creations in the natural world and enjoyed horticulture and landscape gardening.
Mrs. Pierce was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Helen Vonzell Meers Wilbanks, and two brothers, Billy Zemery Washington Meers and Benny Lavoy Meers.
Mrs. Pierce is survived by her loving husband, Harold Eugene Pierce; three children: Bryan Eugene Pierce and his wife Susan Marie Pierce of Champaign, Illinois; Derek Brent Pierce of Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Lisa Pierce Laughon and her husband Kenneth Laughon of Roanoke, Virginia and Smith Mountain Lake; one grandchild: Andrew Eugene Hengjun Pierce of Champaign, Illinois; her dog, Sophie; and several very special nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives and dear friends.
The family would like to express heartfelt thanks to her palliative care physician, Dr. Kimberly A. Curseen, and to Crossroads Hospice.
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