Gloria Kay Orange, 88, died Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, at Highland Ridge Rehab Center.
She was born in Roanoke on Feb. 20, 1932. She was a lifelong member of Blacksburg First Wesleyan Church, and she loved to embroider, sketch, listen to old music, watch classic TV shows and play the piano.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Edward Orange; a daughter, Sharon Lee Arrowood; her parents, Courtney and Rosa Caldwell; and a great-granddaughter, Everly Margaret Rose Orange.
She is survived by her two daughters, Patricia Dianne Sheppard and Cynthia Orange Harris and her husband, Kenneth; two sons, Barry James Orange and his wife, Virginia, and Winfred Michael Ball and his wife, Linda; a sister, Elizabeth Hale; grandchildren Amy, Carrie, Eric, Tony, Aaron, Dara and Michael Henry; and numerous great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in the McCoy Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. John Hopkins officiating. Interment followed in the Southwest Virginia Veterans Cemetery, Dublin. Arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg.
