FLORINE CULPEPPER, (86), PEACEFULLY PASSED AWAY ON 11/07/2023, SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES.

MRS. FLORINE CULPEPPER WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER, 9, 1937, TO VERA MILLER AND GEORGE MOORE IN THE BUSTLING CITY OF NEW YORK, NY.  SHE SPENT HER YOUTH AND EARLY ADULTHOOD IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.  AFTER FLORINE GRADUATED FROM BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, SHE MET AND MARRIED, ROBERT LEE CULPEPPER, A NAVAL PETTY OFFICER , AND RAISED TWO DAUGHTERS.  FLORINE WAS A CAREER NAVY WIFE AND KEPT HER DAUGHTERS WHILE HER HUSBAND SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR.  AFTER HER HUSBAND RETIRED, THEY SETTLED IN GLASSBORO, NEW JERSEY AND FLORINE ATTENDED ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE WHERE SHE OBTAINED HER DEGREE IN NURSING.

AFTER GRADUATION SHE WORKED AT OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOPITAL FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS.  FLORINE WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT NURSING AND LOVED HELPING PEOPLE.  A LIFELONG CHRISTIAN, FLORINE LOVED AND TRUSTED THE LORD.  SHE LIVED HER LIFE ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE.  SHE WAS A MEMBER AND A MOTHER OF EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH IN GLASSBORO, NEW JERSEY.  MOTHER CULPEPPER LED A FULL BUT HUMBLE LIFE.  SHE FIERCELY LOVED HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS.  LOYAL AND STEADFAST, SHE WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO PRAY WITH YOU AND/OR PRAISE WITH YOU.  SHE IS LEAVING BEHIND MANY FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO LOVE HER.

FLORINE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND, ROBERT LEE CULPEPPER, HER SISTERS, VILLA MAE MILLER AND SHIRLEY HAWKINS, WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY.  SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER DAUGHTERS, CYNTHIA VINCENT,( HUSBAND, DOUGLAS) OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.  LORRAINE BUCKLEY, (HUSBAND), JARED), OF ONTARIO CALIFORNIA.  SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER BROTHERS, WALTER MILLER, (WIFE, ELAINE), AND JAMES VERNON MILLER, OF NORFOLK VIRGINIA, FOUR GRANDDAUGHTERS, CHELSEA WASHINGTON, CAMILLE BUCKLEY, JANIECE BUCKLEY AND VANESSA BUCKLEY, AND MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS AND FRIENDS.  SHE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL.  L