Hazel M. Barraclough

BROCKWAY, Pa. - Hazel M. Barraclough, 66, 1303 Main St., sister of Judith Martin of Salisbury, died Saturday (Jan. 1, 2000) at her home.

Services: Memorial service, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Moorhead United Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Walter Hehman. Burial in Beechtree Cemetery.

Visitation: None.

Memorials: Hahne RegionalCancer Center, 100 Hospital Ave., Dubois, Pa. 15801.

Audrey Dibrell

Audrey Evangeline Wesson Dibrell, 81, died Sunday (Jan. 2, 2000) at the Salisbury Lutheran Home.

Summersett Funeral Home is in charge.

Monroe Lincoln Cowan

EAST SPENCER — Monroe Lincoln “Buss” Cowan, 74, 407 E. Broad St., died Saturday (Jan. 1, 2000) at the Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, after a year of declining health.

Born Aug. 30, 1925, in Cleveland, Mr. Cowan was a son of the late Frank and Bertha Ellis Cowan. Educated in the Rowan County schools, he had retired as a welder with Gamewell Mechanical. As a youth he attended Cedar Grove AME Zion Church, Barber. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

He was preceded in death by a son, Monroe Cowan Jr., and a stepson, Harry L. Davis.

Survivors include wife Jessie Mae Ellison Cowan; son Earl Simmons Cowan, Brooklyn, N.Y.; daughter Gloria Barringer, Salisbury; stepson Robert L. Davis, Union Mills; stepdaughters Dorothy Blackwell, Salisbury, Jean C. Hairston, Queens, N.Y., and the Rev. Naomi Austin and Elizabeth L. Truesdale, both of Bronx, N.Y.; brother Jack Cowan, Philadelphia; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Services: 1 p.m. Tuesday, A.R. Kelsey Memorial Chapel, Noble and Kelsey Funeral Home, Salisbury, conducted by the Rev. Nilous Avery II. Burial, National Cemetery, Salisbury. Military rites by Salisbury-Rowan Veterans Council.

Visitation: 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Johnsie Lee Gabriel

KANNAPOLIS — The funeral will be Wednesday for Johnsie Lee Gabriel, 87, 249 James St., who died Friday (Dec. 31, 1999) at NorthEast Medical Center, Concord.

Born June 22, 1912, in Iredell County, Mrs. Gabriel was the daughter of the late John Younts and Ava Misenheimer. Retired from Fieldcrest Cannon, she was a member of the Mass Choir at her church.

Survivors include daughters Mrs. Sam (Mildred) Washington, Huntersville, Eunice Jean Wiggins, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Eva Lillian Wilkinson, Mrs. Val (Geraldine) Holder and Mrs. Avery (Johnsie M.) Tucker, all of Kannapolis; a son, the Rev. Charles Ray Moody, Aberdeen; 52 grandchildren; 131 great-grandchildren; and 65 great-great-grandchildren.

Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday, Bethesda AME Zion Church, conducted by the Rev. Anthony Cannon. Burial, church cemetery.

Visitation: 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Bryant-Lytle-Young Funeral Home.

Edith Vaydeen Cheek

KANNAPOLIS - Edith Vaydeen Cheek, 78, 1816 Moose Road, died Saturday (Jan. 1, 2000) at NorthEast Medical Center, Concord.

Born Nov. 27, 1921 in Cabarrus County, she was a daughter of the late Luke B. and Minnie Osborne Rodgers. A graduate of Landis High School, she was formerly employed by Terry Products and had retired from the Jim Cheek Corp., where she was a secretary. A Baptist, she was active with the woman’s auxiliary of the VFW.

Survivors include husband James Richard Cheek; sons Jimmy Dean and Eston L. Cheek, both of Kannapolis, and L. Michael “Mickey” Cheek, Harrisburg; daughter Gail C. Snow, Little Rock, Ark.; brother Hoyle Rodgers, Kannapolis; sister Ishmael Gardner, Kannapolis; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Linn-Honeycutt Colonial Chapel, Landis, conducted by the Rev. Billy Honeycutt. Burial in West Lawn Memorial Park.

Visitation: 7-8:30 tonight at the funeral home.

Rev. Allen Joslin

The funeral will be Wednesday for the Rev. Allen Webster Joslin, 84, 1403 Wellington Hills Circle, who died Saturday (Jan. 1, 2000) at Rowan Regional Medical Center.

Born April 27, 1915, in West Warwick, R.I., Joslin was the son of the late Harry Almoran and Elizabeth Terry Batchelder Joslin. Educated in the West Warwirk schools , he was a graduate of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He received a master’s degree in sacred theology from Yale University and a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Rhode Island.

Made a deacon in the Episcopal Church in September 1944, he was ordained into the priesthood in May 1945. He served as priest in charge at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Conway, S.C.; Trinity Episcopal Church, Myrtle Beach, S.C., and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Andrews, S.C., 1945-1948; and at Trinity Episcopal Church, Abbeville, S.C., 1948-1954.

He served as rector at the Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood, S.C., 1948-57; and Christ Episcopal Church, Swansea, Mass., 1958-1980. He was priest in charge at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Salisbury from 1980 until retiring in 1992.

He was a delegate to the Anglian Congress in 1954 and director of the youth division of the Diocese of Upper S.C. from 1954-1957.

He was also author of a poem in “The North American Book of Verse,” which was published in the Crown Anthology, and edited “To Your Soul’s Health.”

Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Basto Fuller Joslin, whom he married Dec. 27, 1944; sons John Elliott Joslin, Charlotte, Peter Webster Joslin, McCormick, S.C., and Stephen Allen Joslin and David Nelson Joslin, both of Salisbury; daughter Mrs. Emil (Elizabeth Fuller) Malinowski, Dodgeville, Wis.; sister Mrs. Robert (Adra Caroline) Kelly of Warren, R.I.; and nine grandchildren.

Services: Memorial, 3 p.m. Wednesday, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Requiem Eucharist celebrated by the Right Rev. Gary Gloster, bishop suffragan of the Diocese of North Carolina. He will be assisted by the Rev. John C. Southern, interim pastor, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Domenic K. Cianella of the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Burial will be held at a later date at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.

Visitation: In the church’s parish hall after Wednesday’s service.

Summersett Funeral Home is in charge.

Memorials: St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 131 W. Council St., Salisbury, N.C. 28144; or St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 1852, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.

Willie Henry Alfred Meeks

ALBEMARLE — The funeral will be Tuesday for Willie Henry Alfred Meeks, 64, 32967 Poplar Lane Road, who died Saturday (Jan. 1, 2000) at Stanly Memorial Hospital.

Born March 23, 1935, in Union County, Mr. Meeks was a son of the late Charlie and Mae Meeks. He was last employed with Arrowood Fixtures, where he was a spray booth operator.

Survivors include daughters Teresa Lefort and Debbie Macaranas, both of Norfolk, Va.; son Will Meeks, Albemarle; sister Ruby Wilson, Mooresville; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Hartsell Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Mitchell D. Cook and the Rev. Ralph Shelton. Burial, Plyler Baptist Church cemetery.

Visitation: 6-8 tonight at the funeral home. At other times the family will be at the home on Poplar Lane.

Priscilla Lane Miller

The funeral will be Wednesday for Priscilla Lane Miller, 60, 340 Mahaley Ave., who died Friday (Dec. 31, 1999) at Rowan Regional Medical Center after several years of declining health.

Born April 8, 1939, in Rowan County, Mrs. Miller was a daughter of the late William Franklin and Thelma Sellers Miller. A graduate of Dunbar High School, East Spencer, she was formerly employed by Cartex Mills. She was a member of Crown in Glory Lutheran Church, where she served on the Worship Committee and the Altar Guild. She was also a member of the church choir.

Survivors include son Reginald L. Miller, Salisbury; brothers Walter K. and William A. Miller, both of East Spencer, and Wilbur S. Miller, Clayton; sisters Lethree Myers, Ruby, S.C., and Mary L. Griffin, Patricia A. Ellis and Zelma Graeber, all of Salisbury, and Ella Dunlap, of the home; foster brother Mitchell Gibson, Salisbury; foster sister Patricia Steele, Charlotte; and four grandchildren.

Services: 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Crown in Glory Lutheran Church, conducted by the Rev. John Johnson. Burial, Oakwood Cemetery.

Visitation: 1 p.m. Wednesday at the church.

Memorials: Crown in Glory Lutheran Church, Building Ministries, P.O. Box 1384, Salisbury, N.C. 28145-1384.

Rev. Curtis Morehead

The Rev. F. Curtis Morehead Jr., 81, Salisbury, died Sunday (Jan. 2, 2000) at The Laurels of Salisbury after an extended illness.

Born April 30, 1918, in Shelby, Morehead was a son of the late F. Curtis and Minnie Herman Morehead. Educated in the High Point schools, he was a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, and the Lutheran Southern Theological Seminary, Columbia, S.C.

As a seminary student, he served summer internships in Rocky Mount and Pulaski, Va. He was ordained by the N.C. Lutheran Synod in 1944 and served as pastor at Mount Hebron, Hildebran; St. John’s, Hudson; and Haven, Salisbury.

After his retirement, he continued to serve as vice pastor and supply minister at Concordia, China Grove; St. Enoch, Kannapolis; Calvary, Spencer; St. Luke, Tyro; and St. Matthew and Union, both in Salisbury.

At the time of his death he was a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. Active in the North Carolina Synod, he had served as secretary of the Central District and in various capacities on a number of committees. He was a past president of the Lenoir-Rhyne Ministers Association, a past president of the Hudson Lions Club, former director of the Catawba Valley Executives Club and a member and past president of Salisbury Civitan Club. He was honored with the Civitan of the Year award in 1982.

His wife, Dr. Martha Morehead, died Sept. 16, 1999.

Survivors include sons F. Curtis Morehead III, Charlotte, and John L. Morehead, Salisbury; daughter Mrs. Julius K. (Martha) Peeler, Salisbury; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, conducted by Dr. William H. Battermann, pastor, and N.C. Synod Bishop Leonard Bolick. Burial, City Memorial Park.

Visitation: 7-8 tonight at the home of daughter Martha Peeler, 308 S. Fulton St.

Summersett Funeral Home is in charge.

Memorials: Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1908 Statesville Blvd., Salisbury, N.C. 28144.

James W. Barbee

ALBEMARLE - James William “Jimmy” Barbee, 58, 353 Concord Road, died Saturday (Jan.1, 2000) at Stanly Memorial Hospital.

Born Nov. 10, 1941, in Stanly County, he was a son of the late Grover William and Helen Mullis Barbee. A 1961 graduate of Albemarle High School, he had retired from American & Efird Co. He served for 20 years as a scorekeeper for the Albemarle City Softball League.

Survivors include sisters Margaret Coley and Myra Smith, both of Albemarle.

Services: Graveside rites, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Stanly Gardens of Memory, conducted by the Rev. Bob Roberts.

Visitation: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Stanly Funeral Home. At other times the family will be at the home on Concord Road.

Memorials: American Diabetes Association, 3109 Poplarwood Court, Suite 125, Raleigh, N.C. 27604-1043, or American Heart Association, c/o Susan Gibson, Bank of Stanly, P. O. Box 338, Albemarle, N.C. 28002.

Neal N. Cruse

WINSTON-SALEM - Neal N. Cruse, 73, brother of Doris Cruse Williams of Salisbury, died Friday (Dec. 31, 1999) at his home.

A graveside service was to be held today at 2 p.m. at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens. Hayworth-Miller Funeral Home was in charge.

Greer N. Goodman

Greer Neill Goodman Jr., 45, 1219 Rowan Mills Road, died Sunday (Jan. 2, 2000) at his home.

Lyerly Funeral Home is in charge.

Nancy Jean Lynch

ROCKWELL -Nancy Jean Zduniak Lynch, 46, died Saturday (Jan. 1, 2000) at her home after a short illness.

Born Nov. 25, 1953, in South Amboy, N. J., she was a daughter of Constance Marchel Middlebrook of Wilmington and the late Stanly W. Zduniak. A 1972 graduate of Matawan High School in New Jersey, she was employed as a private duty CNA. She was a member of Rockwell First Baptist Church.

Survivors include husband Donald V. Lynch, whom she married Aug. 19, 1972; son Brian K. Lynch, Patuxent River, Md.; daughters Brenda K. Lynch, Salisbury, and Beverly K. Middlebrook, Wilmington.

Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church, conducted by Dr. Benny L.Vickery Sr., pastor. Burial in church cemetery.

Visitation: 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Powles Funeral Home. At other times the family will be at the home of daughter Brenda K. Lynch, Faith Farms, Salisbury

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Ruth Hilton Page

Ruth Hilton Page, 77, died Monday (Jan. 3, 2000) at the Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, Myrtle Beach, S.C.