Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:01 pm

Lillie Belle Edwards Griffin, 95, formally of Castalia, died March 26, 2017, at Crystal Bluffs Rehabilitation Health Care Center in Morehead City.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at Peachtree Baptist Church, Spring Hope, with Pastor Eugene Whitehouse officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.

Lillie Belle was born May 26, 1921, in Nash County, the third child of 13 born to Spencer and Helen Edwards.

She is survived by a son, Robert Griffin and wife, Karen, of Gloucester, VA, and a daughter, Charlotte Griffin Brothers and husband, Lewis, of Morehead City; 3 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren; sisters Minnie Jones and Mildred Williams; brothers Cecil Edwards, Allen Edwards, Jerry Edwards, Peter Edwards, and Nelson Edwards; many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, R.S. Griffin; a granddaughter Brooke Griffin; sisters Rachel Hill and Dixie Southerland; brothers Heywood, Spencer, and Joe Wayne Edwards.

Flowers are accepted or memorials may be made to Peachtree Baptist Church, 3523 North NC 581, Spring Hope, NC 27882.

Funeral arrangements by Spring Hope Funeral Home.