Mrs. Brenda McNeill Severt, age 55, of Lansing, passed away Saturday evening, May 12, 2012 at Ashe Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 2pm at Boone Family Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Billy Joe Blevins officiating. Burial will follow in Ashelawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00-9:00pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at Boone Family Funeral Home. Mrs. Severt was born in Ashe County on Monday, November 26, 1956 to the late Willard and Mabel Elliott McNeill. Brenda was the Branch Manager at Yadkin Valley Bank of West Jefferson until the branch closed. Then she retired to enjoy time with her husband, Jerry. She was a member of Bristol Baptist Church. She was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother. She will be greatly missed by all. She is survived by her husband, of 34 years of marriage, Jerry Severt; two sons, Justin Severt and wife Summer, of Lansing and Marcus Severt, of Lansing; three brothers, Larry McNeill and wife, Liz, of Lansing, Gary McNeill, and wife Nancy, of West Jefferson and Rick McNeill and wife, Tammy, of Lansing; a granddaughter, Macie Severt; and she was expecting an another grandbaby; several nieces and nephews also survive. The family requests no food please! In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to American Heart Association, c/o June Weaver, PO Box 791, Jefferson, NC 28640 or Ashe County Cancer Fund, c/o Rena Adams, 372 Oscar Day Road, Jefferson, NC 28640.