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.