Anna Laura Vance Duncan, died Sunday, April 26, 2015, surrounded by her family.
Anna Laura was a retired school teacher who taught in the Ohio County School System for 33 years. She loved her 10 years at Centertown School and also the rest of her tenure at Wayland Alexander. Teaching children and being with the grandchildren were the joys of her life. She also enjoyed her church family at Hartford United Methodist and was a part time Sunday School teacher for the Class of Geneva. Anna Laura sang alto for the church choir and if she was not playing the piano for a quartet, she was playing the piano for the church.
She especially loved gospel music and played the piano for the Duncan Quartet, the Jim Page Quartet, the Silvertone Quartet and The Veterans Quartet. She organized the Ohio County Senior Choir, which initially had members from at least 17 Ohio County churches. She was a Kentucky Colonel three times by different governors, a Lady Colonel, a Hartford Sorehead and the organizing Senior President of the Fort Hartford Chapter of the Children of the American Revolution. (Seven of her grandchildren are lifetime members of that organization). Anna Laura served in various capacities in many other organizations such as the Ohio County Historical Society, Ohio County Homemakers, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Ohio County Hospital Auxillary, Ohio County Retired Teachers and the Red Hat Society.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Frank Duncan; and a son, Jerry Wayne Duncan.
Anna Laura is survived by two daughters; Sharon Ann Tichenor, and husband, Billy, Debra Jo Mayes, and husband, Larry; a son, James Melvin Duncan, and wife, Sherry; a daughter-in-law, Debra Sue Duncan; sister-in-law, Bessie Milligan; 16 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Thursday, April 30, at 1 p.m. at Bevil Bros. Funeral in Beaver Dam. Burial will follow in Centertown Cemetery. Friends may visit with the family Wednesday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
The family request that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Hartford United Methodist Church. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be sent to: bevilbrosfuneralhomes.com.