Vorice Kirk Varney

 

Vorice Kirk Varney, 97 of Indian Valley, VA went Home on April 10, 2025.

She was born August 4, 1927 in Martin Co., KY to Millard & Lucy Kirk. She was the last survivor of 12 siblings. As a young woman she worked in a bus station where she met the love of her life, Rudolph Varney. She spent most of her life as a Homemaker after marrying Rudy in 1948. They were married 61 years until his death in 2010. They started their married life in WV, eventually moving to Salisbury, MD and finally settling in Greensboro, NC. In 2021, Vorice moved to VA to live out her last years with oldest daughter and son-in-law, Pat & Richard Bishop.

Vorice’s lifes mission was to be a faithful, loving wife to Rudy, to raise her children to know God as their personal saviour, and to show everyone she met the love of Jesus in hopes they would follow him. She instilled in all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren that a life lived for Christ was the greatest life you could live. You could find her singing daily or listening to Christian music as she went about her work, or studying and reading her Bible, her most cherished treasure. She spent several years as a cafeteria worker. She was an excellent seamstress, loved gardening, was known for her tidiness, and was famous for her Sunday dinners. For many years she volunteered as the church clerk, taught Sunday school, cleaned the church, and sang in church. She was best known for singing “her song”, The Old Ship of Zion. Church attendance was always a top priority for her and this is where she was when she had a stroke a few days before she passed away.

She is also preceded in death by her granddaughter, Misty Smith; sister and brother-in-law, Minnie & Howard Moore; sisters, Lucy, Ruth Ann and Oretha Kirk; brothers, Ted, Paul, Charles, Joe, and Bill Kirk; brothers & sisters-in-law, Forrest & Cindy Kirk and Lacy & Polly Kirk; brother-in-law, Ralph Varney; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Betty & Rex Stone, Stella & Andy Chancellor, and Homer & Lois Varney.

Her legacy lives on through her daughters & sons-in-law, Pat & Richard Bishop and Lynn & Randy Yost; nine grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; 23 great-great-grandchildren with two more on the way. Also left to cherish her memory are brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, Jim & Polly Varney; brother-in-law, James Mahone; and sisters-in-law, Betty, Millie, Annette, and Shirley Kirk, and Peggy Varney; along with a host of nieces and nephews.

We would like to thank her special caregivers that made her last few months more enjoyable, Hannah Wells, Melissa Young, Crystal Black, and Mary Ellen Nissley, as well as hospice the nursing staff at Carilion New River Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at Indian Valley Church of God with Rev. Kenneth Poston officiating. The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at Indian Valley Church of God. Entombment will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, 2025 in the Westminster Gardens Cemetery, Greensboro, NC.

In lieu of flowers, the family wishes that donations be made to the charity of your choice.