Velma Whisenant

NEW ALBANY - Velma E. Whisenant, 82, died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, at Union County Health Care Center. She was born Aug. 18, 1928, in Union County to Edger Howell and Vera Mae Dye. She was a homemaker, and a member of the Harmony Baptist Church and the Quilt Club.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Glenfield Funeral Home Chapel in New Albany with Bro. Robert Daniels officiating. Burial will be in Glenfield Memorial Park.

Survivors include three sons, Winfred Wray Whisenant (Pat) of York, Ill., Ronnie Whisenant (Wendy) of Arley, Ala., and Tommy Whisenant (Marnelle) of New Albany; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Winfred W. Whisenant; four brothers, Roger Howell, J.D. Howell, Tom Howell and William Ole Howell.