Cedar Point, NC – Lois Yvonne Merrill Piner, 84, died Friday, October 4, 2019 at Crystal Coast Hospice House in Newport.  Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, 1:00pm at Jones Funeral Home, Swansboro Chapel with the Rev. H.C. Hardesty officiating.  Burial will be private at the Piner Family Cemetery.

The daughter of the late Roy and Dorothy Watson Merrill.

She is survived by four daughters, Sissy Patricia Piner, Carolyn Eaton and husband, Scott, Anna Renee Piner and Melony Ann Piner all of Cedar Point; son, Billy Wayne Piner and wife, Sharon; twenty grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, 1 great-great-grandchild.  She is also survived by her faithful companion David Henry Jones of Cedar Point.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William Alvin Piner, and a grandson, Larry William Roberts.

The family will receive friends Wednesday, beginning at 12:00pm until 1:00pm at the funeral home.

Flowers are welcomed but donations are suggested to a Ronald McDonald House in her memory.