Funeral Services are at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 6 at St. David’s Episcopal Church, Azure Ct., Laurinburg. Burial will follow in Spring Hill Cemetery, Wagram.
Born December 1923, in Great Falls, S.C. she was a daughter of the late Clifford P. and Naomi Fields Pearson. Moving to Laurinburg in 1943 with her husband, Jack, she was a steadfast member of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Laurinburg, serving as a Sunday school teacher, catechist, and women’s Altar Guild member, and cooking pancakes for many, many Shrove Tuesdays. Grace worked at the old Laurinburg bus station during WW II, later managed the Sears store, and worked at other places, but her greatest loves were cooking and nursing. She never met a person or child she couldn’t feed with a smile and a laugh and good food. Her coconut cake was famous at family birthdays and sold at record prices at bake sales. Grace obtained her degree and certification as a Licensed Practical Nurse at age 56 and loved caring for people at Laurinburg Hospital for a number of years. She lived with passion and enthusiasm in all the activities and volunteer work she did, especially cooking and playing with her grandchildren in North Carolina and Utah, who loved her for that.
Grace was a loving wife of 58 years to her husband, Jack Dunston who died in 2001, and a devoted mother to her sons and their wives: Jack and Graciela Dunston of Cary and Cliff and Judy Dunston of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Grace was a proud grandmother of eight boys and one girl, and a great-grandmother of 14.
Memorials may be made to St. David's Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 334, Laurinburg, NC 28353.
The family will receive friends on Friday, March 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the McDougald Funeral Home and Crematorium, Laurinburg.
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