Gaynelle Travis - Feb 10th 1957 - June 2nd 2009

Gaynelle Travis

Gaynelle Yarboro Travis, 52, of N.C. Hwy 150 South, passed away on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009, at the Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC following a year long battle with cancer.

The funeral service will be held Saturday, June 6th at 11 a.m. at the Higher Ground Baptist Church, where she was a member, by Pastor Vardis Rains and Charles Brady. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Gaynelle was born on Feb. 10, 1957, in Davidson County to Walt Howard Yarboro and Mary Lee Knotts Yarboro. She was a founding member of her church. She also taught Sunday school for the sixth- to eighth- grade class, was the music director and a member of the Ladies Group. She was a very talented and gifted singer-songwriter and she recorded three professionally produced albums. Gaynelle released 5 songs to radio which all became Top 10 songs and had her first Number 1 hit song titled “God Gave Them To Us” in June of 2008. Gaynelle traveled with her husband Mackie Travis and had dynamic music ministry that touched countless people across the nation and reached around the world by radio. She was preceded in death by her father.

Surviving are her husband, Mackie Woodrow Travis of the home; two sons, Jonathan Travis and his wife, Melissa, of Houston, Texas, and Matthew Travis and his wife, Teresa, of Linwood; her mother of Linwood; seven grandchildren, Elijah, Jada, Corbin, Isaac, Jonah, Cayden and Enoch; two brothers, Walton Yarboro of Linwood and Tim Yarboro and his wife, Lee, of Lexington; and four sisters, Rosalie Groce and her husband, Carroll, of Greer, S.C., Becky Michael of Linwood, Joyce Honeycutt of Lexington and Alice Coleman and her husband, Earl, of Thomasville.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 5th at Davidson Funeral Home, at the Lexington Chapel and other times at the home on N.C. Highway 150.

Memorials may be made to Higher Ground Baptist Church Building Fund, 1351 Lamb Road, Lexington, NC 27295.

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