Vera Guffey Garner, age 87, was born in the Murl community of Wayne County, Kentucky on March 22,
1926, the daughter of the late Thomas Riley and Ida Belle Shearer Guffey. She passed away Sunday, July 28, 2013 at the Wayne County Hospital.

On April 27th, 1946 she was united in marriage with Roy "Pepper" Garner, who preceded her in death. Vera and Pepper had two children who survive, Charlotte Johnson and Tracy (and Annie) Garner. Also surviving are four grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, three sisters, Agnes (and Lewis) Correll, Alice (and Ray) Crabtree, Mildred (and Junior Phipps,) one sister-in-law, Lura Garner (and E.B.) Gray of Livingston, Tennessee, as well as numerous nephews, nieces and cousins.

Vera was preceded in death by her husband, son-in-law, Marvin (John) Johnson, step-mother, Gustava Denney Guffey, and five siblings, Charles, Clarence, Thomas, and the twins, Henrietta and Bernetta Guffey.

When Vera was thirteen, she accepted Christ, was baptized and became a member of the Rector's Flat Baptist Church, where she was faithful in attendance as long as her health permitted. She taught the Youth Sunday School Class and later the Adult Women's class, and was a faithful member of the Choir.

In 1974 she was elected as Women's Missionary Union Director for Rector's Flat and from 1997 to 2002 she was the Associational Director for the Women's Missionary Union.

Vera was active in many organizations on various levels. She was a charter member of the Wayne County Homemakers, serving not only as County President, but also President and Secretary of the Area Homemakers. As President of the Area Homemakers, she sat on the State Homemakers Board and was elected from the Area Homemakers to serve on the State Extension Board,

She served as the District Women's Chairman of Farm Bureau Women for over twenty years. She also served as State Women's Chairman of Farm Bureau Women and while serving was invited to tea at the White House with Mrs. Nixon as the hostess.

Vera was the first woman to be elected to the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation Board, where she served for four years.

She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Lake Cumberland Area Development District Board where she served for over thirty years and received the Outstanding Citizen Participant Award.

Vera enjoyed reading and traveling and made an effort to visit each of the fifty states, as well enjoying a trip to Europe.

Funeral services were held Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, at 3 p.m. in the chapel of the Hicks-Vaughn
Funeral Home with Rev. Bruce Newman officiating. Burial was in the Elk Springs Cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to the Beck-Rector Cemetery, 2351 Hwy 1546
Monticello, Kentucky 42633.

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