Gladys Reeves Little

Goldsboro – Mrs. Gladys Inez Reeves Little died Thursday morning at Britthaven Nursing Home. She was a former resident of Kirkwood Retirement Village.

Mrs. Little was born in Wayne County to the late John Henry Reeves and Ciddy Estelle Lane Reeves and was the widow of Jimmy Gaston Little. She was retired from R.G. Barry and was a member of Oak Heights Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Robert Fletcher officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Dale Cemetery.

Mrs. Little is survived by her son, Billy Ray Little of Goldsboro; her daughters, Emily Davis and husband, Gordon of Eureka, Peggy Newsome and husband, Melvin of Bassett, VA, Diane Syverson and husband, LaVern of Goldsboro and Sandra Barbour and husband, Ricky of Goldsboro; her sister, Marie Whitley of Wilson; her brother-in-law, Sam Register of Goldsboro; fifteen grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her son, Jimmy Earl Little; her daughter-in-law, Lois Jones Little; her grandson, Harold Newsome; and great-grandchildren, Tyler Cameron Davis and Jonathan Sibbett; and her granddaughter-in-law, Melanie Syverson.

The family will receive friends Saturday at Seymour Funeral Home from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. and other times at the home of her daughter, Diane Syverson, 106 Camille Drive (Holland Hills), Goldsboro, NC.