Born in Steadman, NC, the youngest of 10 children to Munsey and Ida Bell Culbreth, she worked on the family farm growing-up and graduating from Steadman High School. She was an avid basketball player, pilot and traveler. She spent summers in Maine as a camp counselor as a teen. She graduated from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she started on the women’s basketball team, and went-on to her first career in teaching high school English in Danville, Va. She would later become an office manager for several family endeavors, including owner & morning chef of a country Inn in Vermont.
Always fond to pass-on lessons learned from her parents, or antics with her brothers and sisters, she is preceded in death by father Munsey Culbreth, mother Ida Bell Honeycutt, brothers Grey, Stanley, sisters Inez, Joy, Hattie-Ruth, Hazel, Lois, Sadie, and survived by husband Thomas Newby Sr. and son Thomas Newby Jr (Lori), daughter Rondha Thomas, son Kyle Bedsole (wife Julie), brother William (Bill) Culbreth, grandchildren Amber Idabelle, Brandon, Brooke, and great grandchildren Taylor, Joey, Madison, and Jackson.
Her love of adventure saw her playing basketball, tennis, flying, and snow skiing in earlier years and extended coastal cruising with husband Tom up and down the eastern seaboard from home port in Myrtle Beach once her passion for the water was ignited. When not out pursuing a new adventure, she would often be found caught-up in the latest action, mystery or regional interest novel at home in Greensboro.
She will be missed by all and especially by Cassi and Jaz, her beloved Yorkshire terriers who were her constant companions, as she was a fierce champion for animal care and would be pleased that any memorial wishes would be contributed to the Guilford County Animal Resource Center. The family will be planning a life celebration service this Spring in her hometown, as Spring and Steadman always called to her love of growing things – faith, family, and friends.
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