Faye Moody Bolding

Faye Moody Bolding, 79, a resident of Luverne, passed away peacefully at Luverne Health and Rehabilitation on Monday, July 22. A graveside service for Faye will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 25, with Rev. Larry McEndarfer officiating. Interment will follow in Rocky Mount Cemetery with Turners Funeral Home of Luverne directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Bolding was a lifelong member of the Pentecostal church and loved her church family at Pentecostal Life in Montgomery. While she spent most of her professional career as a bookkeeper, her passion was in working her farm. She loved tending to her garden and sharing the fruits of her labor with her family and friends, but Faye took special pride in taking care of her cows. Here she put her precise and mathematical skills towards keeping track of every single one of them by name, and you better believe she knew which cow was which every single time. Never doubt that Faye possessed a mind like a steel trap for most of her life and it served her quite well as a businesswoman for many years.

Faye’s exacting nature and brilliance with details spilled over into her favorite hobby as well. She never could say no to a good flea market where she hunted for the hundreds of collectibles that once filled up multiple barns. Same with her cows, she knew exactly where and what everything was from her glassware to Holiday Barbies. Open any box and she could not only tell you where and when she bought it, but also who made it and how much it was worth. It should come as no surprise that Faye was a very independent woman with a strong will who always spoke her mind so that you never doubted where you stood with her. Yet, she was also a loving woman with a generous heart for those in need. She was always quick to help anyone she could, as a good Christian should. And there was no one she loved like those grandchildren of hers. They were her heart and she enjoyed her role as “Mimi” and taking care of as many of them as she could for as long as she was able to do so. Faye was no slouch in the kitchen either as she cooked many of the vegetables fresh out of her garden and made some delicious homemade creamed corn and one of the best red velvet cakes you’d ever be fortunate enough to get a taste of. Above all, she was a devoted mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who cherished her family with all of her heart and savored every moment they were able to spend together.

Faye was preceded in death by her parents, W.C. and Johnnie Walker Moody, and brother, Billy Moody. She is survived by her brother, Lamar Moody; children, Donald (Barbara) Flack, Bonnie Davis and Sam (April) Bolding; grandchildren, Sara (Josh) Corbin, Lauren (James) Knight, Jessie (Jesse) Patrick, Sarah Thomas and Seth Thomas; great-grandchildren, Brendan, Ava, and Benjamin Corbin, Bradley and Elena Knight and Caroline Patrick and numerous extended family members and friends.

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