LaVerne Tinsley

LaVerne Tinsley passed away on March 1, 2019. A lifetime of fellowship and remembrance is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at Lake Ridge Chapel and Memorial Designers. Family and friends will celebrate her life of 86 years at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, 2019, at Lake Ridge Chapel.LaVerne Tinsley was born on February 22, 1933, to John and M. Edith Simpson Mercer in Louisville, Kentucky. LaVerne married Horace Grady Tinsley, Jr. on August 19, 1949, in Louisville, Kentucky.LaVerne was a quintessential homemaker who loved her husband and children. She adored her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. LaVerne’s husband was an Air Force veteran who with the family, traveled across the United States and overseas. This expanded her love of cooking and she consequently became a gourmet cook. She collected bells and angels in which she displayed prominently throughout their home.Survivors include her children, Ruth L. Donaldson and husband Warren, Mark Tinsley and wife Amy; grandchildren, Laura Vandergriff, Russell Johnson and wife Heather, Leigh, Lisa and Joey Donaldson, Chris Tinsley and wife Codie, and Shannon Tinsley; great-grandchildren, Nixon and Ethan Vandergriff, Carter Smith, Dylan Gentry, Joshua, Jeremiah and Audrey Tinsley; brother Arthur Mercer and wife Joyce.She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Edith Mercer and husband, Horace Grady Tinsley, Jr.