Jacqueline Motley

Jacqueline (Jackie) Inman Motley, age 84 died Sunday, September 27, 2015 at Piney Forest Health and Rehabilitation Center after being in declining health for the past several years. Mrs. Motley was born in Pittsylvania County on November 1, 1930, a daughter of the late Henry Washington Inman and Lillian Giles Inman Klein. Mrs. Motley was a member of Stokesland United Methodist Church and the American Legion Post #325. She and her husband owned and operated Choice Tours for many years. She loved to travel and was able to travel all over the world and the United States. She and her late husband donated land to the Riverbend Volunteer Fire Department and was active in the department's beginning stages. Mrs. Motley attended Radford University and married her late husband James (Jimmy) Richard Motley in l951. Mr. Motley died April 27, 2005. Surviving are one daughter; Catherine (Kitty) Adkins of Danville, two grandchildren; Bobby Adkins of Danville and Christy Adkins Steel (Jesse) of New Bern, NC, three great-grand-daughters; Lily Catherine, Ella Kate and Caroline Campbell. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 4:00 P.M. from Townes Memorial Chapel with the Reverend Lisa Nordan and the Reverend Laurice Jones Wilkes officiating. Interment will follow in Highland Burial Park. The family will receive friends at Townes Funeral Home on Monday, September 28, 2015 from 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. and at other times will be at the residence of her daughter, Catherine (Kitty) Adkins, 3141 Old Mayfield Road. The family requests that memorials may be made to the Riverbend Volunteer Fire Department, 1535 Ferry Road, Danville, VA 24541 or to Stokesland United Methodist Church, 212 Murphy Circle, Danville, VA 24541. Townes Funeral Home and Crematory, 215 West Main Street is serving the Motley family.