OUR LOVING MOTHER LUCILLE SURLES MCNEILL HAS FALLEN ASLEEP IN DEATH ON JULY 2,2025. SHE WAS BORN ON JULY 5,1936 IN HARNETT COUNTY TO TWO LOVING AND DEVOTED PARENTS JOHN CALVIN SURLES AND MABLE STOKES SURLES WHO SHE AFFECTIONATELY CALLED "MA AND DA" WHO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. OUR MOTHER ALSO HAD HER BROTHERS EARNEST, CHARLES, JOHN JR. JAMES, ROB, AND WILLIAM SURLES WHOM PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. HER SISTERS ROSETTA, HELEN, BETTY JEAN AND PEARL WHOM ALSO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. ALL OF THEM SHE LOVED. ALSO PRECEDING HER IN DEATH WAS HUSBANDS JACK McNEILL, DAVE "CAP" FULLER AND TERRY LEE McNEILL.

OUR MOTHER LUCILLE WHOM MANY AFFECTIONATELY CALLED "LUCY" WAS VERY HARD WORKER. SHE GREW UP WORKING AS SHARECROPPERS WITH HER SIBLINGS AND PARENTS. LATER ON SHE WORKED AT DUNBAR FOODS FOR OVER 30 YEARS BEFORE SHE RETIRED.

OUR MOTHER IN HER EARLY ADULT YEARS DUE TO THE LOSS OF HER FIRST HUSBAND SHE BEGAN SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH AND THE ANSWER TO WHY WE DIE AND WHAT THE MEANING OF LIFE HER LIFE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AND HOW SHE COULD PROTECT HER CHILDREN. SO SHE CAME IN CONTACT WITH JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND BEGAN A SERIOUS STUDY OF THE BIBLE. UPON GETTING SATISFYING ANSWERS FROM THE BIBLE SHE DEDICATED HER LIFE TO JEHOVAH AND SYMBOLIZED THAT DEDICATION BY WATER BAPTISM. SHE WAS A FAITHFUL SERVANT OF JEHOVAH FOR OVER 60 YEARS. SHE LOVED PREACHING AND TEACHING OTHERS THE TRUTH FROM GOD'S WORD AND THE HOPE THAT THE BIBLE OFFERS WHICH SHE TRULY BELIEVED IN FOR THOSE WHO MAY DIE. (JOHN 5:28,29). SHE RAISED AND TAUGHT ALL OF HER CHILDREN ABOUT JEHOVAH AND THE TRUTHS FOUND IN HIS WORD WHICH WAS THE BEST GIFT THAT SHE COULD HAVE GIVEN THEM. OUR MOTHER LOVED TO LAUGH, EAT GOOD FOOD AND TRAVEL, BUT WHEN SHE MEANT BUSINESS YOU KNEW THAT TOO. IN HER EARLY YEARS SHE LOVED TO SEW WHICH SHE OFTEN DID FOR HER CHILDREN EVEN DRESSING THEM ALIKE. MOMMA LOOKED FORWARD TO TIME WHEN JEHOVAH WOULD MAKE THIS EARTH A PARADISE AND WHERE SICKNESS AND PAIN AND EVEN "DEATH" WILL NO LONGER EXIST( REVELATION 21:3,4) OUR MOTHER IS RESTING NOW AND WAITING ON THE TIME WHEN JESUS WILL CALL AND SHE WILL ANSWER( JOB 14:13-15)

LEFT TO MOURN OUR GREAT LOSS OF OUR BELOVED MOTHER IS THREE BROTHERS....TAYLOR SURLES BALTIMORE MD., FLOYD(DONNA) SURLES OF DUNN, N.C., LLOYD(HILDA) SURLES OF DUNN,N.C., HER CHILDREN THE OLDEST BRENDA McNEILL JONES WHOM PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. JACQUELINE NEWTON OF FUQUAY N.C., JAMES L. McNEILL OF LILLINGTON N.C., BARBARA McNEILL OF DUNN, N.C., RICKY McNEILL OF DUNN, N.C., GARY(LISA) McNEILL OF DUNN, N.C., KIMBERLY(BOBBY)WARREN OF GREENSBORO, N.C., DEBBIE(BERNARD)SMITH OF ANGIER, N.C., MARTRINA TERRY(SID) OF GREENSBORO, N.C. SHE ALSO LIVES BEHIND A HOST OF GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN WHICH WAS TOO MANY TO LIST BUT SHE LOVED. SHE ALSO HAD AN HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS AND OTHER RELATIVES AND WEALTH OF FRIENDS ESPECIALLY THOSE IN DUNN CONGREGATION WHOM MANY WERE LIKE FAMILY.

OUR MOTHER WHO WAS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FAMILY WILL BE DEEPLY, DEEPLY MISSED UNTIL WE SEE HER AGAIN IN THE PROMISED NEW WORLD THAT IS SURE TO COME. WE LOVE YOU MOMMA FOREVER AND ALWAYS!!!!!!