Vista Battle
b. 16 October 1904, d. 9 July 2004
- Father: William Battle b. say 1884, d. between 1904 and 1910
- Mother: Julia Deanes b. April 1884
- Vista Battle was born on 16 October 1904 in Chowan County, North Carolina.
- She married Lloyd Foster Locke circa 1929.
- Lloyd Foster Locke and Vista Battle appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, at 169 Laurel Loop.
- She officially witnessed the death of John Lawrence Deanes on 17 May 1952 in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina.
- Vista Battle became a widow at the 5 November 1983 death of her husband Lloyd Foster Locke.
- At the time of her death Vista Battle was living in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
- Vista Battle died on 9 July 2004 at age 99 in Fletcher, Henderson County, North Carolina, at Park Ridge Hospital.
- She was interred at Lewis Memorial Park, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
- The following appeared on 11 July 2004 in The Asheville Citizen-Times: Vista Battle Locke, 99, of Givens Estates and a longtime resident of Malvern Hills, died Friday, July 9, 2004, at Park Ridge Hospital. /P/ A daughter of the late William and Julia Deanes Battle, she was born on Oct. 16, 1904, in tidewater Virginia at the Battle Farm on the Notaway River, an area now known as Battle Beach. Her grandfather donated the land upon which Chowan College was built. /P/ Mrs. Locke attended the Women's College of the University of North Carolina and Farmville Virginia Teacher's College. She taught second grade in Edenton prior to her marriage and moved from Bluefield, W. Va. to Asheville in 1945. /P/ A member of First Baptist Church of Asheville for 59 years, /P/ she served as superintendent of the Primary Sunday School Department and was active in WMU. She also served as president of the Hall Fletcher Junior High School PTA and was instrumental in starting the Teen Center at the West Asheville Community Center. Throughout her life she was active in Federated Women's Clubs. She was a longtime member of the Community Club of Asheville, serving several terms as president and also earned state recognition in sewing from the Federated Women's Club of North Carolina. /P/ She was an active member of the Asheville Women's Club until shortly before her death. /P/ Her lifelong love of travel began as a child riding along the Chowan River in her Uncle Harry Deanes' river boat as he delivered the mail. She enjoyed river boat and ocean cruises and travel in other parts of the world. /P/ She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Lloyd Foster Locke, who died in 1983 and by a son, William Locke, who died in 1957. /P/ Mrs. Locke is survived by her daughter, Julia A. Locke of Asheville; grandchildren, Susan Peckham and her husband, John, of Colorado Springs, Colo. and David Boettcher and his wife, Tammy, of Asheville; and great-grandchildren, John Brook Peckham and Catherine Locke Peckham of Colorado Springs, Colo. /P/ A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Guy Sayles officiating. Burial will follow at Lewis Memorial Park. /P/ Her family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home prior to the service and at other times will be at 20 Cranford Road, Asheville. /P/ Memorials may be made to Ruth Winslow's Leprosy Ministry, Hong Kong/China Medical, World Missions, Free Methodist Church of North America, P.O. Box 535002, Indianapolis, IN, 46253-5002.
- Last Edited: 25 Oct 2008