Elizabeth Grey Jeffreys Hubard

Elizabeth Grey Jeffreys Hubard, 85, of Roanoke passed away Thursday, August 23, 2012. She was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina on Valentines Day, February 14, 1927, the third child of James Talbot Jeffreys and Lizzie Grey Gay Pugh. She graduated from Goldsboro High School in 1944 and attended Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She graduated from Farmville State Teachers College in Farmville, Virginia, (Longwood), in 1948 with a degree in Home Economics and was a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. She taught school for two years, 1948-49 in Bel Air, Maryland and 1949-50 in Natural Bridge Station, Virginia. Libba was a master seamstress and cook, a loving wife and a caring mother to her four children, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was a lifelong Episcopalian and served on the Altar Guild of three Roanoke parishes: St. Johns, St. Elizabeths and Christ Episcopal. She was a long-time docent with the Art Museum of Western Virginia and a volunteer at The Center In The Square. She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, William S. Hubard, her parents and a sister Virginia Pugh Jeffreys. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, W. Stebbins Hubard, Jr. and Patricia Carmack Bunny Hubard and their three children, Jacquelyn Elizabeth Beth and husband Evan Marshall Massey and their children, Mary Ford and Haynes of Athens, Georgia, Anne Wilcox and husband William Jeffers Wingfield of Charleston, South Carolina and John Stebbins Hubard of Dayton, Ohio; daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth Gay Hubard Kelly and R. Glenn Kelly and their two children, Lucy Page and William Henry Liam Kelly of Richmond, Virginia; daughter and son-in-law, Virginia Ginny Hubard Alphin and G. Montgomery Monty Alphin of Roanoke, Virginia and their two children, Caroline Grey Alphin and her husband, Michael Stephen Zarella of Radford, Virginia and Grey Montgomery Alphin of Wilmington, North Carolina; and son and daughter-in-law, Thomas Marshall Hubard and Susan West Hubard of Roanoke, Virginia and their three children, Summer West Baker and her daughter Skye of Roanoke, Virginia, Thomas West Hubard of Charlotte, North Carolina and Elizabeth Gay Billie Hubard of Roanoke, Virginia. She is also survived by her brother James Talbot Jeffreys, Jr. of Goldsboro, North Carolina; three sisters Sara Jeffreys Gilliam of Martinsville, Virginia; Irene Jeffreys Cornwell of Lexington, South Carolina; and Mary Ann Jeffreys Maxwell of Goldsboro, North Carolina; loving friend Doris G. Petie Dowdy and special caregiver Marsha Fagg and numerous nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held on Monday, August 27th at 2:00 PM at St. Johns Episcopal Church. The family will receive friends in the parish hall after the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Apple Ridge Farms, 541 Luck Avenue, SW, Suite 228, Roanoke, Virginia 24016.