Lois Reeves MP4

Lois Reeves was born March 25, 1913 in Brunswick County, Virginia, the daughter of the late Clyde R. and Lola Graves Dance. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesses C. Reeves, Jr. Lois had two sons (Louis and Carl ) and a daughter (Peggy Reeves Tunstall).
"My family moved here from Prince George County, Virginia, in 1923. Two years later, Mrs. Ruth Moore was my Sunday School teacher. My brother's teacher was Miss Wilma Clark. She also taught me in the new church when I was a teenager and was the leader of the MYF (Methodist Youth Fellowship)."
Lois "replaced Ida Curtis when she gave up preparing the elements for Communion. The ladies not only poured the grape juice and cut up the bread in small squares (about the size of a sugar cube), but after the service, they washed and dried every glass cup. This took quite some time but was done each first Sunday after Communion. There was no such thing as an Altar Guild in those days. The first time that I was to fix the elements Ida Curtis told me to come to her house and she would show me how to cut the bread. Ruby and Nancy Parnell would alternate with Verona Dodd and I every other month; we did this for 10 or 12 years. Later Mary Garrison (Rev. Garrison's wife) helped me. I will never forget the first time she (Mary) said...let's get wafers. So she bought them, but did we get complaints!"
Lois also volunteered with Rita and John St. Clair to assemble the Chimes--all done by hand, stapled and mailed in 2000.
Lois was very active in the Francis Allen Circle. Her favorite scripture was the 23rd Psalm...that she quoted word for word as a blessing at a family gathering December 23rd--her last Christmas celebrated with family at 96 years. She was lovingly called "Nanny" by her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Lois passed January 23, 2010--two months before her 97th Birthday. At that time, she was the oldest member of Chester United Methodist Church.