Mary Frances (Summer) Potts

Dateline:  Highlands, NC

Mary Frances Summer Potts, age 79 of Highlands, NC, passed away Monday, July 18, 2016.  She was born in Macon County, the daughter of the late Otto Francis Summer and Edwina Summer.  She was a homemaker, a devoted wife, mother and grandmother and a member of Shortoff Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 47 years, Louis Eugene "Bud" Potts, who died in 2013.

She is survived by her daughter, Deborah Norman of Highlands, NC; three grandchildren, Amber Morrow of Asheville, NC, Kevin Chavis and Ashley Chavis both of Hope Mills, NC; two great‑grandsons, Jacob and Jayden, great‑granddaughter, Chloe Annabelle Chavis, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service will be held Friday, July 22, 2016 at 2:00 pm at Shortoff Baptist Church, with Rev. Andy Cloer officiating.  Burial will be in Highlands Memorial Park Cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 pm Friday, one hour prior to the service at the Church.

Memorials may be made to Four Seasons Hospice, 571 South Allen Road, Flat Rock, NC  28731 or to Shortoff Baptist Church, Buck Creek Road, Highlands, NC  28741.

Bryant‑Grant Funeral and Crematory is serving the Potts family.  Online condolences may be made at www.bryantgrantfuneralhome.com.