IN LOVING MEMORY

David Singleton

David Singleton

April 5, 1955 - October 20, 2024

 

David Allison Singleton or Dave, as he was known to his friends, age 69, of Marietta, Georgia passed away Sunday, October 20, 2024 after a short battle with cancer.
David was born on April 5, 1955 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to the late Al and Lucy Singleton. Dave grew up in Kernersville, North Carolina, graduating from East Fayette High School in 1973 and UNC Chapel Hill in 1978. After graduating he moved to New York City, where he started his career as a marketing researcher and met the love of his life, Amy Hopper. Their marriage was blessed with three children, Daniel, Andrew and Marc. Dave and Amy moved to Atlanta in 1992, where Dave spent 8 years working at the Coca Cola Company before going into private consulting.
After retiring from a successful career spanning over four decades, Dave was able to pursue his true passion: golf. As with all things he cared deeply for, he approached his retirement hobby with single-minded focus, rarely missing an opportunity to play the 8 AM time slot with his friends, Steve, Joe, and Don, at Pinetree Country Club. He loved the game and was dedicated to playing it well. He was often the best golfer in any group he played in.
A country boy at heart, Dave often told tales from his youth of hunting, fishing, and general tomfoolery in and around the woods behind his house or on his family’s tobacco farm. He carried this love of the outdoors throughout his life in his devotion to maintaining a well-groomed yard and garden, where he proudly carried on his father’s tradition of growing a small farmer’s market worth of produce in every nook and cranny of the backyard. His battles with the local squirrels, rabbits, and deer were the stuff of family legend.
Most of all, though, Dave loved his family. He rarely missed a chance to be there for them at moments both big and small, from graduations and weddings to middle-school band recitals and little league baseball games. Over the last three years of his life, he took advantage of every available opportunity to bond with his precocious granddaughter, Abigail Catherine Singleton, and teach her how to fix furniture and water garden plants—all by the time she turned three years old.
Dave is preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by Amy, his wife of 40 years, his three loving sons and their respective partners: Daniel Singleton and Sara Spinella, Andrew Singleton and Lottie Dungan, and Marc Singleton and Joseph Lam, his sisters and their husbands, Jan and Bruce Ledwith, and Amy and David Guthrie, his granddaughter Abigail, five nephews, one niece, and many friends.
David will be laid to rest in his hometown of Kernersville, North Carolina later this year.

 

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David passed away after a short battle with cancer.

David Allison Singleton or Dave, as he was known to his friends, age 69, of Marietta, Georgia passed away Sunday, October 20, 2024 after a short battle with cancer.
David was born on April 5, 1955 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to the late Al and Lucy Singleton. Dave grew up in Kernersville, North Carolina, graduating from East Fayette High School in 1973 and UNC Chapel Hill in 1978. After graduating he moved to New York City, where he started his career as a marketing researcher and met the love of his life, Amy Hopper. Their marriage was blessed with three children, Daniel, Andrew and Marc. Dave and Amy moved to Atlanta in 1992, where Dave spent 8 years working at the Coca Cola Company before going into private consulting.
After retiring from a successful career spanning over four decades, Dave was able to pursue his true passion: golf. As with all things he cared deeply for, he approached his retirement hobby with single-minded focus, rarely missing an opportunity to play the 8 AM time slot with his friends, Steve, Joe, and Don, at Pinetree Country Club. He loved the game and was dedicated to playing it well. He was often the best golfer in any group he played in.
A country boy at heart, Dave often told tales from his youth of hunting, fishing, and general tomfoolery in and around the woods behind his house or on his family’s tobacco farm. He carried this love of the outdoors throughout his life in his devotion to maintaining a well-groomed yard and garden, where he proudly carried on his father’s tradition of growing a small farmer’s market worth of produce in every nook and cranny of the backyard. His battles with the local squirrels, rabbits, and deer were the stuff of family legend.
Most of all, though, Dave loved his family. He rarely missed a chance to be there for them at moments both big and small, from graduations and weddings to middle-school band recitals and little league baseball games. Over the last three years of his life, he took advantage of every available opportunity to bond with his precocious granddaughter, Abigail Catherine Singleton, and teach her how to fix furniture and water garden plants—all by the time she turned three years old.
Dave is preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by Amy, his wife of 40 years, his three loving sons and their respective partners: Daniel Singleton and Sara Spinella, Andrew Singleton and Lottie Dungan, and Marc Singleton and Joseph Lam, his sisters and their husbands, Jan and Bruce Ledwith, and Amy and David Guthrie, his granddaughter Abigail, five nephews, one niece, and many friends.
David will be laid to rest in his hometown of Kernersville, North Carolina later this year.

 

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11/09/24 02:05 PM #1    

Steve Easter

  Didn't know Singleton went to East Fayette School. Got a few stories but this one sticks out. Not sure when me and Mary Elizabeth started dating but she got me into the Moravian loop. The Swaims, Flynts, Vance, Willards, Kerners, Shore, Greenfields...Pure DNA Moravian. It was around Christmas and what do Moravians like to do around Christmas? Love Feast. David's Dad "Big Al" got a hold of  him and said we need Love Feast Rolls for the evening service.  Go to Winston and get some. Me and Singleton were just hanging around so we had nothing to do. Off to the parking lot to grab Big Al's truck. If you ever have hung around Singleton you know you are in trouble when he gets that certain smirk. He goes "Lets take your car"  Me thinking Singleton (the consultant)  knows what he's doing and off we go. PROBLEM. My car is the RED TR4 ...Small trunk, A little jump seat, top occasionaly flew off,  and you had to stretch your legs out to get in it. I think it was Deweys Bakery we ended up at.  Singleton gets out, "We are here for the Rolls" Guy comes out, and says "ain't no way it all fits" David says "Hold my Beer" Miracle at Christmas. We took them out of the boxes and crammed them all in. Not sure how we got back to the Church. Needless to say BIG AL was not happy seeing the condition of the what was puffy love feast rolls. Got that little M in the top. You know, I do believe it was the beginning of the communion wafer. Car did smell good for a few weeks. We had more than our share of beer at the Pizza Hut, the pre game prepping before Church Softball,  Pete Howards Open was pure gold. Singleton, You checked out to early my friend. Look for the Red TR4.  I don't think they serve beer but I know that they have lovefeast rolls. Love to the Family       wm


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