Mrs. Mary Allen Wimple

Yanceyville, NC - It is with profound sorrow that we announce the death of Mrs. Mary Allen Wimple age 94, of 1086 Main Street, Yanceyville, North Carolina. She passed away on Monday, August 25, 2025, in the Yanceyville Rehabilitation Healthcare Center in Yanceyville, North Carolina.

Mary was the daughter of the late John Allen and Leola Johnson Allen, born on October 04,1930 in Coolwell, Virginia. She was educated from the Commonwealth of Virginia. After reaching adulthood, Mrs. Wimple later became a resident of Baltimore, Maryland.

She married the late Spencer Wimple, a World War II veteran and to them the union of Wayne, Sylvia, and Charles were born. After attending beauty college in Baltimore City, she worked as a beautician while Spencer was a barber; together, they started a business. Outside of work, Spencer was diligent in finding something to do and Mary was dedicated to homemaking; where she became an excellent cook and loved entertaining others. Mary was well acquainted with an American black woman’s struggles, which did not stop her strong work ethics that lead her to St. Andrews Hospital, where she worked 40 years as a receptionist before her retirement.

While living in Baltimore, Maryland Mary was a member of Simmons Memorial Baptist Church, where she was an usher. When they moved to North Carolina in 1973, to build their home Mary became a member of Pearson Chapel A.M.E. in Yanceyville. She also belonged to the Draper Christian Church women's prayer group in Eden, North Carolina.

In her pastimes she loved singing hymns and spiritual songs, putting together jigsaw puzzles, playing yard games like badminton and dodge ball, traveling including Egypt, Israel, Puerto Rico, and Canada, she especially enjoyed gardening daily with her husband, famously known as POPEYE. Mary had a deep love for her children, grandchildren, and young people in general. She did her best to steer them in the correct direction.

Mrs. Mary Allen Wimple is the last of her legacy of eleven children to leave her cherished memories with her children Wayne Allen and his wife Millie of Coolwell, Virginia, Sylvia Futrell of Richmond, Virginia, and Reverend Charles Blake of Baltimore, Maryland; and a host of grandchildren; great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other loving relatives, neighbors, and friends, especially Mrs. Russell Canty. She will be sorely missed by those lives whom she touched. After all MOTHER MARY is LOVE.

A Family visitation viewing for Mrs. Mary Allen Wimple will be from 10 a.m. to 11:00a.m on Wednesday, September 03, 2025; at Pearson Chapel A.M.E. in Yanceyville, NC.

Funeral Services for Mrs. Mary Allen Wimple will be conducted at 11:00am on Wednesday, September 03, 2025; at Pearson Chapel A.M.E. in Yanceyville, NC.

Interment will occur later at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery in Owings Mill, Maryland.

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