Fannie Lue Moss Hawley, 93, a native of Granville County, was peacefully embraced by our Lord and Savior, JESUS, The Christ on Wednesday, August 26,2020. She was born July 3, 1927 in Creedmoor, NC, the second of eleven children of the late Robert Lee Moss and Truemella Blacknell Moss. In 1947 she attended Saint Agnes Hospital School of Nursing in Raleigh, NC. She began her long forty-two plus years of dedicated service as a Registered Nurse passing the State Board exams, first in North Carolina then in New Jersey.

Soon after, Fannie met a very handsome widower, Toney Hawley, with a very young daughter, Brenda.  Toney would eventually become her husband.  Fannie became a much-devoted wife and stepmom in 1952.  Shortly after their marriage, they settled down in Montclair, New Jersey.  From this nearly sixty year union they bore two sons, Toney L. Hawley, Jr. and Jarvis E. Hawley.

While waiting to begin her nursing career in New Jersey, Fannie briefly worked at Little Falls Laundry, located in Little Falls, New Jersey.  Soon she received and accepted a nursing career offer from Mountainside Hospital located in Montclair/Glen Ridge, New Jersey.  After about two years at Mountainside, she was actively recruited to a R.N. position at the recently built, Montclair Community Hospital, located in Montclair, New Jersey.  There, she was assigned to the 11:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M. shift in the Intensive Care Unit.  During her last fourteen years of her long nursing service career; Fannie became the Head Nurse of that shift in the Intensive Care Unit.  She retired from The Montclair Community Hospital at the end of 1989.

Fannie is predeceased by her husband of fifty-nine plus years, Toney; her three brothers, Robert Gray, William and Charles Moss; her three sisters, Flossie Moss, Mary Washington and Ruth Moss; and her daughter-in-law, Audrey C. Hawley (Jarvis).

Fannie is a member of Saint Matthews A.M.E. Church in Orange, New Jersey and she was also, along with her husband, Toney, a previous long-time member of New Hope Granville Missionary Baptist Church.

She is survived by two sons, Toney L. Hawley, Jr. and Jarvis E. Hawley; her step-daughter, Brenda D. Tucker (John); two sisters, Apostle/Prophetess Ruby Mitchell (Balion) and Mamie K. Francis Cannady; a brother, Lonnie Moss (Mandy); two sisters-in-law. Reverend Theodora Moss and Ila Burt; four step-grandchildren; four step-great grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, church family, and friends.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to a Breast Cancer Research Organization, or to the Benevolent/Missionary unit of your church or Grace Hospice Healthcare in Edison, New Jersey, or to your local EMS Volunteer Ambulance Units, or plant a memorial tree from the CaggianoMemorial.Com home website.

MOMMA'S HANDS...

They tend to you when you're tiny.  Guide you as you grow.  Fold in prayer as you find your way, and never let you go.  Momma, you raised us with a love we could trust to never let us down.  A love that showed us we were never alone.  A love that gave us strength to become who we are today.  For all you gave; for the life you; for the life you created with your hands, your heart, and your love......

IN JESUS' NAME...MOMMA - THANK YOU!

A graveside service will be conducted Tuesday, September 1 at 11:00 A.M. at New Hope Granville Baptist Church by Rev. James Issac III, where Fannie will be laid to rest beside her husband, Toney. (This service is limited to fifty (50) attendees selected by the family and observing Covid-19 guidelines of face masks and social distancing of six feet or more). A viewing will be held Monday, August 31 from 10:00 A.M. until 12:00 P.M. at Wright Funeral Home, following CDC guidelines of no more than ten (10) people in any indoor gathering at any one time with face masks and social distancing of six feet for more).