Carolyn Scruggs

Carolyn Elizabeth Ferguson Osborne Scruggs was born to Dorothy Dixon Ferguson (later, Foley) and Carson Ferguson, on February 8, 1947, in Danville, Virginia. She died on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Danville, from the progressive effects of Alzheimer's disease.

Reared in Danville by her mother and grandparents, Thelma and Bruce Dixon ("MaMa" and "Dee"), she graduated from George Washington High School, attended Stratford College, and, later, attended Thomas Nelson Community College from which she obtained her degree as a registered nurse, and 0ld Dominion University, from which she earned a B.S.Degree in Nursing.

Carolyn and her first husband, Capt., Richard L Osborne, Jr., an U.S. Air Force pilot, lived in Blacksburg, Virginia while he finished college, and, after he joined the Air Force, they relocated to Hampton, Virginia and to Alamogordo, New Mexico where she was a fulltime homemaker and a part-time nurse. After her husband's honorable medical discharge from the Air Force, they lived in Danville and, for a short while, in Selma, Alabama. Upon their return to Danville and continuing after his death, Carolyn worked in the Danville hospital, sequentially, as Head Nurse in Orthopedics in the Recovery Room, and in the Holding Area for One-Day Surgery. She had the reputation of being “able to start an IV in the leg of a mosquito".

Leisure-time activities added to the excitement of Carolyn's life. She enjoyed five trips to European countries, loved to sleighride in Danville's occasional snows, liked to play Pickleball, eagerly and frequently traveled to Mrytle Beach and to Kiawah Island, and happily went Carolina Shag Dancing with friends. Above all, she cherished gatherings with her family for holidays and other special occasions. Carolyn was a strong believer in and practitioner of service to others and to her Lord. She was an active member of Moffett Memorial Baptist Church where she served as a deacon, as a Sunday School teacher, as a choir member, as a handbell player, as the head of a team in the Saturday Free Meals Ministry, as a children's choir director, as a leader on numerous Summer Youth Mission Trips, as a tutor in the Church-Based Tutorial Program and as a chaperone on youth and children's trips to conferences at Eagle Eyrie Virginia Baptist Conference Center. Until the Pandemic, she volunteered at God's Storehouse.

She is survived by her second husband, Russell L. Scruggs; her sons, Mark Osborne (Judith), Alan Osborne, and James Osborne (Jacki); her stepdaughter, Stephanie Schramm; her grandchildren, Peyton Osborne (Abigail), Paige Setliff (Damon), Carson Osborne, Madison Osborne, Ariana Osborne, Richie Gross, Justin Schramm, and Jake Schramm; her great-grandchildren, Asher, Allora, and Allena Setliff and newborn Chandler Osborne; and by her brother Robert Ferguson (Faye). She was predeceased by her first husband; by her parents; by her stepfather, Harry Foley; by her grandparents; and by her grandson, Jack Osborne.

A funeral service will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2024, at 11:00 AM at Moffett Memorial Baptist Church, with Reverend Jonathan Hilliard officiating, and a visitation being held an hour prior. Interment will follow at the Dixon Family Cemetery, 1200 Inman Road, Brosville, VA.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Moffett Saturday Free Meals Ministry.

Please sign the online guestbook on the Memory Wall at www.townesfuneralhome.com The Scruggs family has entrusted arrangements to Townes Funeral Home and Crematory, 215 West Main St., Danville, VA, 434-793-1211.