Funeral for Mary Lavern Hogan Armstrong, 90, of Vinemont (Battleground) will be Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 2 p.m. at Bethlehem West Baptist Church in Cullman County with the Rev. Thomas Reeves and the Rev. Billy Gable officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing. Burial will be in Johnson Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 9 at the funeral home. Mrs. Armstrong died Sunday, July 25, 2004, at Woodland Medical Center. She was born Feb. 8, 1914, in Morgan County to J.R. Frank Hogan and Sarah Elizabeth Chenault Hogan. She attended Pleasant View Holy Church of Christ and in later years Macedona Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, F.M. “Melvin” Armstrong. Survivors include three daughters, Barbara (Leon) Hill of Moulton, Peggy (Bobby) Staples of Herndon, Va., and Judy (Benes) Schultz of Battleground; one sister in-law, Helen Hogan Greer; one brother-in-law, Emmett (Irene) Armstrong; five grandchildren, Phillip (Rhonda) Hill, Vickie (Steve) Shadden, Tammy (Eugene) Ray, Tracy (Steve) Powell and Kristi (Joe) Vincent; and eight great-grandchildren, Leslie Shadden, Hannah Shadden, Cody Ray, Austin Ray, Tyler Powell, Taylor Powell, Payton Vincent and Tristen Vincent. Pallbearers will be Steve Shadden, Eugene Ray, Steve Powell, Joe Vincent, Scotty Hogan, David Hogan, Bill Helton and Neil Buckelew. The family would like to recognize two people that were really close to mom and helped her everyday, Zora Orr and Susie Williams, and a host of friends and loved ones.