Barbara Gregory Greene

WADESBORO – On Thursday, February 20, 2025, Mrs. Barbara Gregory Greene, 82, loving wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away peacefully at Richmond County Hospice Haven in Rockingham, NC. 

 Services will be 2:00 PM, Tuesday, February 25, 2025, by the graveside in Anson Memorial Park with Rev. Donnie Helms officiating. 

 The family will greet friends following the service and other times at the home. 

 Barbara was born September 23, 1942, in Anson County, NC and was a daughter of the late Charles Julian Gregory and the late Evelyn Adams Gregory. She grew up in the Little Cotton Mill Village of Wadesboro and often spoke of her childhood, walking to school with her sister, playing with her friends at the ballfield, picking cotton for a local gentleman, and growing up in Southside Baptist Church where she and her family remained a part of for many years. 

 She worked for many years with Zimmer Manufacturing in Wadesboro and after closing she worked at Walmart in Wadesboro. Following her employment with Walmart, she worked with Medical Specialties in Wadesboro. 

 Barbara dearly loved her children and grandchildren and always enjoyed the times she shared with them. She enjoyed watching Hallmark movies on television, Coca Colas and Cheetos. She always made sure to have plenty of snacks for when her grandchildren visited. 

 Those who are left to cherish her memory are her son, Stephen Greene of Wadesboro; her grandchildren, Chesley Greene (Morgan Cheek) of Winston-Salem and Ashley Layfield (Parker) of Polkton and her nieces and their families. 

 In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Chesley Albert Greene, by her son, Warren Greene and by her sister and brothers, Peggy Pegram, Charlie Gregory and Darrell Gregory. 

 In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Anson Community Hospice, a division of Richmond County Hospice, 1119 N US 1, Rockingham, NC 28170. 

 The arrangements are in care of Leavitt Funeral Home and online condolences may be made at www.leavittfh.com