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Mable Louise “Cindy” Morris Dean, 84, of Grottoes, passed away Aug. 21, 2009, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. 
Mrs. Dean was born December 24, 1924, in Lynwood and was the daughter of the late Ernest L. and Elizabeth Rachel Morris.
Mrs. Dean graduated from Port Republic High School and was a member of the Mt. Olive Brethren Church and had attended the Port Republic United Methodist Church, where she was active in the Senior Citizens Group. She was active with the Red Hats, and the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Mrs. Dean, along with her husband, Bob, were state horseshoe champions, and were inducted in the Virginia Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame. They were country music singers during the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. She and her husband, “Bob & Cindy,” were “Sweet Hearts on the Air,” a weekly program airing on WSVA. She was crowned “Queen of Country Music” in Crewe, in 1958. She spent winters at her home in Florida, and retired from Century 21.
On April 15, 1942, she married Robert Lee “Bob” Dean, who preceded her in death on Jan. 11, 1997.
Mrs. Dean is survived by a son, Robert L. Dean, and wife, Betty, Penn Laird; two daughters, Lorna Stultz, and husband, Roy, Harrisonburg, Deanna Potts, and husband, Jim, Grottoes; a daughter-in-law, Linda Dean, Grottoes; a brother, Ernest “Son” Morris, Port Republic; 14 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. Besides her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by siblings, Pearl Raynes, Alma Williams, Sadie Morris, Ellen Pohl, Jack Morris, Raymond Morris; a son, Kenneth Ross Dean, and grandson, Timmy McInturff.
The Rev. David Palmer and Rev. Harold Webster will conduct a memorial service 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Port Republic United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in the Elk Run Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Monday evening 7 to 8 at the Kyger Funeral Home in Harrisonburg.
Flowers are welcome or memorial gifts may be made to the Grottoes Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 1187, Grottoes, Virginia 24441.
Online condolences may be sent to the Dean family by visiting www.kygers.com.
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