Dickey DuVall Netherland

Dickey DuVall Netherland, 90, passed away peacefully at home on September 19, 2015. A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at Second - Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. The family will receive friends at Patterson’s Spring Hill, Wednesday, September 23, 2015 from 6 until 8 o'clock in the evening.

Affectionately known as Dickey to one and all, she was the oldest child of Harriett and W. O. DuVall of Atlanta. She graduated from North Fulton High School in 1942 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1946 after spending her first two years at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. She married Tom Brumby of Marietta, Georgia and they had five children. Her home was filled with family, friends, children and children’s friends and she managed to handle it all with a grace that made the chaos appear perfectly normal. For many years, Mrs. Netherland was a real estate agent; beginning as one of early female agents working for Mrs. Harry Norman and staying with the firm as it grew until her retirement some twenty years later.

Dickey loved and enjoyed life. She was woman of quiet faith and took great joy in her appreciation for art, interior design and gracious living. She had a style and a way of doing things that was all her own. However, her greatest joy was her friends. She was never happier than when she was with her beloved friends from her bridge club, garden club and the many other friends that made and treasured over the years.

Mrs. Netherland is predeceased by her parents, her husband, Louis Netherland of Atlanta and her son John T. Brumby, Jr. She is survived by her sister, Mary Francis (Mickey) Nichols of Atlanta; her children: Elsie Brumby, Anna and DuVall Brumby, Jane and David Brumby, Breland and Marc Nelson and Jenny and Bill Brumby; her grandchildren: John Thomas Brumby, III, Leila Wise, Cathall Anderson, Duvall Brumby, Jr., Ryan Hooks, Turner Brumby, Ben Nelson, Clayton Nelson, Breland Oscar and Ben Brumby and a host of cousins, nieces and nephews.

The family would like to thank Ms. Bernastine Hodges for the wonderful care and companionship that she gave our mother in the final years of her life along with the numerous caregivers that have been such a blessing.

Godspeed Doll. You have run the race and you did it your way. We love you and will miss you.