Carrie Odel (Stone) Whitt

CARRIE ODELL STONE WHITT, age 83, of Roxboro, NC passed away Tuesday evening, December 17, 2024 at Duke University Hospital. 

Mrs. Whitt was born January 23, 1941 in Mecklenburg County, VA, daughter of the late James Luther & Berta Rebecca Ridgeway Stone and was wife of the late Phillip Vincent Donevan and the late Otha Richard Whitt.  She was a homemaker and was a member of Cross Roads Baptist Church.

Odell loved her Lord and church, where she sang in the choir and was a member of the quartet.  She enjoyed cooking cakes & pies, farming, gardening, fishing, dancing, decorating, flowers (roses), and being with her family. 

Surviving are five children, Phillip “Dink” Donevan, Jr., Rebecca Donevan (Rodney Weaver), Rita Donevan Wilhelm, Sherman Donevan, Juanita Whitt Dunn & husband, Todd, six grandchildren, Rocky Bowes, Rebecca “Becka” Donevan, Chasity Wilhelm, Blake Whitt, Brock Whitt, Caleb Donevan, twelve great-grandchildren, three great-great grandchildren, siblings, Katherine “Kitty” Stone, Linda Grady & husband, Robert, and Rosa Thomas & husband, Donald.

In addition to her parents and husbands, Mrs. Whitt is preceded in death by a daughter, Carrie Lynn “Susie” Donevan Bowes, sister, Gloria Smith, and brother, Talmadge “Junior” Snow.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, December 22, 2024 in the Strickland and Jones Funeral Services Chapel. Interment will follow in the Olive Branch Baptist Church Cemetery.  The family will receive friends and guests from 1:00 till 2:00 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home. 

Pallbearers will be Rocky Bowes, Caleb Donevan, Jamie Rickman, Nathan Smith, Blake Whitt, Brock Whitt, and Alexus Wrenn.

Arrangements are by Strickland and Jones Memorial Funeral Services, 1810 Durham Road, Roxboro, NC 27573. Online condolences may be made at stricklandandjonesfs.com.

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