Ms. Orie Thrasher

Orie Thrasher, age 87, a longtime resident of Gordo, Alabama, died at UAB Hospital on Friday, December 6, 2024. Visitation was at Skelton Funeral Home on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The funeral service was at Skelton Funeral Home Chapel on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. with Bro. Gene Dawkins officiating and her being laid to rest at the Greenhill Memorial Gardens with Skelton Funeral Home of Reform directing. Pallbearers were her sons and grandsons. She was the daughter of the late Jim and Ethel Hardy. She grew up learning the value of hard work being the daughter of a sharecropping family. She also knew the love of family in being one of ten children. She met and married the late Robert Thrasher, devotedly caring for him until his death after nearly 50 years of marriage. She is survived by her three boys, Ed Thrasher (Gina), Tony Thrasher (Carolyn Avery), and Dwight Thrasher (Karla Kraye) with whom she was so proud. Her grandkids Jeremy Thrasher, Jes- sica Magouyrk, Laura McGough, Heather White, Rebecca Parris, Brandi Mordecai, and Josh Thrasher added so much joy to her life. Wyatt Par- ris, Aiden Booth, Waylon Parris, Collin White, Emma Hildreth, Wiley Parris, Easton Hildreth, Liza White, Allison Magouyrk, Whitney Parris, Georgia Thrasher, Saylor Thrasher, and Tripp Thrasher were her great-grandchildren whom she loved so much. She was one of ten children being survived by her sister, Ella Holman from Gordo, and two brothers John Hardy from Reform, and Ray Hardy from Gordo but being preceded in death by brothers, William Hardy, Joe Hardy, Jamie Hardy, and Truman Hardy, as well as sisters, Gladys Meherg and Doris Parker.