Deacon Tommy Clarence Hairston

Cascade, Va.  - Our Tommy crossed the bar on June 29, 2025, in his home in Cascade, Virginia. He was born on April 25, 1934, in Cascade, Virginia. He married Ms. Vinnie Moyer in 1954, and they parented one child, Clarise Olivia Hairston on February 22, 1955. Tommy was preceded in death by his parents, Robert A. Hairston and Estelle Flippen Hairston, his ex-wife Vinnie Moyer Hairston Pinnix, brother Robert Melvin Hairston; and sisters Mary Ruth Samuel, Hattie Catherline Adams, Mildren Elizabeth Jamison and Clara Jean McKenzie.

Tommy completed his education at Cascade Elementary School in Cascade, and Southside High School in Blairs, VA. After high school graduation, he completed a full work career at Dan River Mills, a major textile manufacturer based in Danville, Virginia, where he served in several leadership positions before retirement. After retirement Tommy continued to work part-time delivering medicines to patients who were sick-and shut-in or had no transportation. But those two formal work assignments were not the full measure of Tommy. Early in his life, he elected to take a correspondence training course to learn how to repair radios and T.V. sets. Those devices had glass tubes, capacitors and resistors, and highly technical components. Tommy mastered the course material and was an expert at repairing those devices. A little later in his career journey, he decided that we wanted to learn to play the guitar and piano.  and hopefully play in churches in honor of God. That dream came true, and he played in many churches in many different church denominations. In that regard, Godly worship was very important in Tommy’s life. He was a church member for nearly all his life and served as a Deacon in The Star of Bethlehem Way of the Cross church in Cascade, Virginia. Tommy was deeply devoted to providing any support needed by his family, especially his mother and father during their elderly years, and of course the “apple of his eye”, his daughter Clarise.

Left to cherish him with fond memories are his daughter Clarise Hairston Ottley (Al, deceased),  four sisters: Anne France (George), Columbia, MD; Nancy Phillips Cascade, VA, Doreatha Hall, Cascade, VA; and, Thelma Pearson, Lanham, MD; two brothers, Joseph Hairston (Monia), Cascade, VA; and, George Hairston (Indira), Atlanta, GA; and four grandsons: Jason A. Ottley (Stacy Galloway), Jonathan E. Ottley (Jennifer), Jordan C. Ottley (Summer), and Joel C.A. Ottley (Kelly), five great-granddaughters: Sophia, Gabrielle, Jasmine, Harper, and Journey; one great-grandson Nathaniel and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends throughout the world.

A public viewing for Deacon Tommy Clarence Hairston will be Wednesday, July 2, 2025; from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Fulton-Walton Memorial Chapel, 417 Price Street, Eden, NC.

A family visitation for Deacon Tommy Clarence Hairston will be from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Fulton-Walton Memorial Chapel, 417 Price Street, Eden, NC

Funeral services for Deacon Tommy Clarence Hairston will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Fulton-Walton Memorial Chapel, 417 Price Street, Eden, NC.

Interment will follow in the Robert & Estelle Hairston Family Cemetery 193 Tender Lane Cascade, Va.

Fulton-Walton Memorial Chapel 417 Price St. Eden, NC.

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