Ruth Hinson Sawyer

Goldsboro – Mrs. Ruth Hinson Sawyer, 72, of Kirkwood Retirement Village, died Sunday at Wayne Memorial Hospital. She was born in Clayton to the late Ernest Hinson and Ruth Matthews Hinson.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Glenn Mills and Rev. Rick Mondell officiating. Burial will follow in the Princeton Cemetery.

Mrs. Sawyer is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and Mark Hull of Pikeville, Arlene and Jerry Rose of Pikeville and Sandra and Phil Naus of Chesapeake, VA; sons, Terry and Susan Holland of Dudley and Larry and Teresa Holland of Chesapeake, VA; a sister, Ernestine Daves of Cartersville, VA; a brother, Richard Hinson of Goldsboro; 19 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Sawyer was preceded in death by a son, Gary E. Holland; brothers, Ernest Hinson and Bud Hinson and sisters, Hazel White and Ruby Johnson.

The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home and other times at the home of Linda Hull, 205 Rossan Drive, Goldsboro.