ELM CITY - Jimmy Wayne Poythress, 83, passed away Saturday, May 4, 2024. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at Shenandoah Baptist Church, 3894 Shenandoah Court, Rocky Mount. Interment will follow in Thompson Chapel Church Cemetery, 5620 Thompson Chapel Road, Wilson. Rev. Glenn Hill and Rev. Tim Parker will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Tuesday at Shenandoah Baptist Church, Rocky Mount.

Jimmy is survived by his wife of thirty-five years, Judy Poythress; daughters, Kim Strother and husband, Michael, Pam Saunders and husband, Steve, and Kathy Sherrod and husband, Ray; son, Kevin Poythress and wife, Suzanne; 10 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren; sister, Ruby Glover.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Rev. Willard and Lucille Poythress; sisters, Dot Rose, Barbara Boykin, and Lynda Campbell; brother, Billy Poythress; niece, Jennifer Bacon, and nephew, Michael Poythress.

Flowers are welcome or please consider memorials in Jimmy's memory to Shenandoah Baptist Church, 3894 Shenandoah Church Court, Rocky Mount, North Carolina 27803, Wounded Warriors Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675, or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105.