Mary Frances Lemon

Mary Frances was born and raised in Broadway, Virginia. She graduated from Broadway High School. She attended Madison College and graduated from National Business College in Roanoke. While attending college she worked for Pilot Life Insurance Co. 

She met her future husband Robert at church in Roanoke. After she graduated, they were married in 1947 and she and her husband lived in Blacksburg, VA where he was a student at V.P.I. She worked as a secretary to Mr. Walter Newman, President of V.P.I. until they started their family. 

After Mr. Lemon graduated from V.P.I. they moved to Virginia Beach where he was an Architect and she was a full time wife and mother until moving to Lynchburg in 1982. They were blessed four daughters and Mary Frances was a volunteer with the Girl Scouts. She was a Brownie Leader, a Girl Scout leader, secretary at her church and a volunteer in many other organizations. She enjoyed sewing for herself, her husband, and four daughters. She also made draperies, curtains, and many quilts for her family. 

All of their daughters were married before they moved to Lynchburg and now their family has grown to nine grandchildren, one great-granddaughter and another great-grandchild due in 2012. Mary Frances likes to stay busy doing for others and visiting with the families. She enjoys crafts, reading, walking, and sewing; her new interest is working on the computer. She has traced both of their families back to the early 1600’s. 

Mary Frances is active in her church at Peakland United Methodist Church, Church Circle, Sunday School Class, and a member of the Gideon Auxiliary. Mr. Lemon lived at Westminster Canterbury until his death and she had a daughter to lose her battle with cancer in 2006.