LOW MOOR (WSLS 10) -Â The Alleghany County community remembers the life of a local legend.
She was known simply as "Granny" and she passed away Tuesday at 109-years-old.
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Granny Averill worked for 65 years at Averill's country store.
Her sons say generations of locals stopped in to eat her home-cooked food and no one left hungry.
"When they would come to Averill's store and everything if they didn't have money enough to buy the food mom would give it to them," explained son, Wayne.
"She's not known by Miss Averill, she's always Granny to everybody. I reckon that's the reason she got the name, because she treated everybody as her grandchildren," said son, Punky.
Granny enjoyed working the store so much she started there in 1941 and didn't stop until 2006 when the doctor made her.
Services are scheduled for Thursday and Friday at Nicely's Funeral Home in Clifton Forge.
Thursday between 5 - 8 p.m. family will receive visitors at the funeral home and Friday at 2 p.m. family and friends will say their final goodbyes in the funeral home chapel.