On December 18th, at 3:43 am Peggy Alice Cox Bond joined Heaven's choir. This Christmas she will sing Christmas carols with the angels in Heaven. What a wonderful time to step into eternity. We are sorry for our loss, but truly elated that she now has a personal view of the Real Christmas story. Anyone who understands what eternity with Jesus is would not want to bring her back.
Mom loved birds and blooms, peacocks and baby chickens, nature and nature's remedies. She enjoyed years of organic gardening, growing giant pumpkins, cultivating beautiful orchids and appreciated nature in its rare and awesome beauty. She was an avid traveler, often leaving for weeks at a time, visited 48 states and 2 countries. She loved her neighbors and friends, she loved babies, she was a matriarch to a huge family that reached 5 generations, but most of all she loved the Lord. Mom was a devout member of Fries Pentecostal Holiness Church for fifty years, and planted and cared for the flower boxes there many summers.
Mom had a beautiful voice, loved singing with her husband Thomas, and did early recordings with her Cox family in Bristol, TN in the 1930's. Mom enjoyed a variety of musical styles, old time music with her children and grandchildren and especially singing praises to God. She taught her children to sing hymns and encouraged us to sing for the Lord.

Mom mourned the loss of her first two baby boys, her daughter Colleen at age 45, her husband Thomas of 65 years. She outlived her four siblings. She was a strong woman and endured several hardships.

Mom touched the lives of so very many people during the 40 years she worked in her store, the Antique Trading Post. Customers became friends, and friends became family. She was always willing to help one in need, often giving pieces of cloth to a mother to sew her children's clothes and food from her shelves to feed hungry families. She taught her children to be kind to the needy and help anyone in need.
She was a wonderful Mother, Grandmother, Great and Great-great grandmother, aunt, cousin and friend. Mom was a beautiful woman inside and out and her beautiful smile now brightens Heaven.

She leaves behind two sons and daughters-in-law: Bobby & Edna Bond of Kernersville, NC and Roger & Brenda Bond of Fries; four daughters & sons-in-law: Mary Sheehi & Edd Tate; Becky & Peary Moore all of Fries; Tina Privette and Pat & Butch Sexton all of Galax, VA. Twenty-one grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren also survive.

The family will receive friends Sunday, December 19 at the Fries Pentecostal Holiness Church from 5 PM until 8 PM. The funeral service will be held Monday, December 20, 2010 at 1:00 PM at the church with Rev. Bill Linkous officiating. Interment will follow in the Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church Cemetery, Fries, VA.