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Mavis Sue Lockhart Arrington of Breaks, Virginia passed away on June 22, 2020 at Heritage Hall Nursing Home after an extended and courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. In writing Mavis’ obituary, it became obvious that despite her simple lifestyle and unassuming personality, pages worth of words are simply insufficient to describe the incredible person that she was to anyone who didn’t personally have the fortune to experience her endless class and incredible love for both nature and her fellow man.

Mavis was delivered by a mid-wife in her family home in Breaks Virginia to David Crockett Lockhart and Dixie Pearl Mullins Lockhart on January 6, 1948. She graduated from Grundy Senior High School at just 16 years of age. After traveling the country and living in Boston, Massachusetts and Baltimore, Maryland, she returned home to Breaks, Virginia to raise her eldest son, David William Arrington and later gave birth to a second son, Gerald Douglas Arrington.

Mavis will always be remembered by her sons and grandsons as an incredibly kind, sweet, loving, and wonderful mother and grandmother. To countless others who had the pleasure of meeting her during her life, she always left an incredibly positive impression with her love, her desire to spread positivity, and her expression of genuine compassion and empathy to anyone needing it. Mavis also loved nature, from keeping a bag of dog food in her car should she run across a stray animal, to feeding birds, squirrels, racoons, deer, and foxes. She loved the call of the whippoorwill and was awestruck by the natural world and its many wonders.

Mavis was preceded in death by her parents, David Crockett Lockhart and Dixie Pearl Mullins, her brothers, Delbert Alson Lockhart and Elbert Arden Lockhart.

Mavis is survived by her oldest son, Dr. David William Arrington, and his wife Teresa Kay Stiltner of Crestview, Florida, and her son Gerald Douglas Arrington, Esq. of Grundy, Virginia, and his significant other, Brandy Santana Stevens, with whom Mavis shared a special friendship. She is also survived by her sister, Violet Pearl Hagy of Knoxville, Tennessee. She leaves two grandsons who she loved so very much, Dylan Alexander Arrington and Jackson Douglas Kade Arrington. Finally, she is survived by a very special friend, Ann Edwards, whom she grew up with in her early childhood, and after 60 years or so, were able to re-connect and become friends once again during the final stages of her life.

In keeping with her wishes, Mavis will be cremated and her ashes given to her sons to spread at the family cemetery in a private ceremony at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made In Memory of Mavis Sue Arrington to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research:
Donation Processing,
The Michael J. Fox Foundation
Box 5014
Hagerstown, MD 21741-5014