Wyatt Blair Mahan

Wyatt Blair Mahan October 15, 1942-August 12, 2026 To my Dear and Loving Husband If ever two were one, then surely we, If ever man were loved by wife then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye woman if you can.

I price thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.

Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let’s so persever, That when we live no more we may live ever.

Anne Bradstreet I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!” “Gone Where?” Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!” There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “Here She Comes!” And that is dying.

A Visitation will be held on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 from 7-8:30p.m., at Norris Mt. Hermon Chapel, Danville, VA 24540.

Norris Funeral Services, Inc. & Crematory, Mt. Hermon Chapel, Danville, VA is respectfully serving the Mahan Family. Online condolences may be made at www.norrisfuneral.com.