MOORESVILLE — Eursly Inez Ervin Anders, 73, South Church Street, died Thursday (June 1, 2000) at her residence.

Born March 8, 1927 in Mooresville, Mrs. Anders was a daughter of the late Farris and Lessie Howard Ervin. She retired from Draymore Mfg. after 30 years. A member of Mount Mourne Church of God, she had served as a Sunday school teacher, church clerk, secretary and pianist and secretary-treasurer of the Ladies Auxiliary.

Her husband, Ernest Arthur Anders, preceded her in death.

Survivors include daughters Phyllis A. Starnes and Velva A. Oxendine, both of Mooresville; sons Dean Franklin Anders and Brent Whitfield Anders, both of Mooresville, and Jack Del Anders, Jacksonville, Fla.; stepdaughter Gayla Upton, Hendersonville; brothers Raymond Ervin, Lincolnton, Farris Ervin, Mooresville, and Howard Ervin, Maiden; sisters Evelyn Ramey, Franklin, Marie Ridenhour and Barbara Ridenhour, both of Mooresville, Carolyn Souther, Albemarle, and Darlene Taylor and Marcia Radford, both of Jacksonville, Fla.; and seven grandchildren.

Services: 2 p.m. Sunday, Mount Mourne Church of God, conducted by the Rev. W. Lawrence Ownbey, the Rev. Sammy Oxendine and the Rev. Jerry Oxendine. Burial, Glenwood Memorial Park. Cavin Funeral Home is in charge.

Visitation: 6:30-8:30 tonight, Mount Mourne Church of God.

Memorials: Mount Mourne Church of God, P.O. Box 85, Mount Mourne, N.C. 28123.

Gary Wayne Babb

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gary Wayne Babb, 61, 4565 Cypress Woods Drive, died Thursday (June 1, 2000) after an illness of 10 months.

Born April 14, 1939, in Cabarrus County, Mr. Babb was a son of Grace McCarver Babb, of Kannapolis, and the late Cline James Babb. He was educated in the Cabarrus County Schools and graduated from South Western College in San Diego, Calif. He served in the U.S. Navy as a chief warrant officer, retiring in 1983. He was a member of the Retired Officers Association and was a Baptist.

In addition to his mother, survivors include his wife, Sheila Ann Babb; son Gary Wayne Babb Jr., Orlando; daughters Charlotte Lee Shivell, San Diego, and Ashley Jean Babb, Orlando; brother Tonye Babb, Chesapeake, Va.; sister Susan Bamberg, Kannapolis; and a grandson.

Services: Graveside service, 2 p.m. Sunday, Carolina Memorial Park, Concord, conducted by the Rev. Joe Rahme.

Visitation: 7-9 tonight, Whitley’s Funeral Home, Kannapolis.

Sheila Regina Cowan

The funeral will be Sunday for Sheila Regina Cowan, 26, 1024 W. Monroe St., who died Thursday (June 1, 2000) at her home.

Services: 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Noble and Kelsey Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Robert Archie. Burial, Oakwood Cemetery.

Visitation: 3 p.m. Sunday, at the funeral home.

Essie S. Goudelock

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — Essie Simpson Goudelock, formerly of Salisbury, died recently.

Born in Salisbury, she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Simpson. A graduate of Price High School and Livingstone College, she was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church and a former member of First Calvary Baptist Church in Salisbury.

Survivors include son Gregory Goudelock, Englewood; daughter Jean Scott, Englewood; and two grandchildren.

The funeral service and burial were held in Englewood. Mitchell and Fair Funeral Service, Salisbury, serves as the local contact.

Newel Donald James

LANDIS — Newel Donald James, 88, 127 S. Beaver St., died Friday (June 2, 2000) at NorthEast Medical Center in Concord.

Born Jan. 2, 1912, in Belvelle, Ark., Mr. James was a son of the late Jettie Robert James and Rufus Samuel Jones.

Educated in Belvelle City Schools, he was a self-employed contractor and a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mae Miller James; son Jerry Lee James, China Grove; sisters Verla Ragle and Ruby Yeargan, both of Houston, Texas; four grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Services: 3 p.m. Sunday, Trinity Lutheran Church, conducted by the Rev. Graham NaHouse. Burial, West Lawn Memorial Park.

Visitation: 7-8:30 tonight, Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home.

Memorials: Trinity Lutheran Church, 308 E. Rice St., Landis, N.C. 28088.

Lide Jones

KANNAPOLIS — Lide Jones, 80, 308 York Ave., died Friday (June 2, 2000) at NorthEast Medical Center in Concord.

Born July 31, 1919, in Marion, S.C., Mr. Jones was a son of the late John and Zillie Jones. He retired from Cannon Mills Plant No. 4 and was a devoted member of Charity Baptist Church, where he was a former deacon and usher.

Survivors include his wife, Effie Sweat Jones; daughters Katherine Height, West Union, S.C., Carolyn McKinney, Kannapolis, Dorothy Wilson, Fairfield, Calif., and Jill Owens, Rockwell; son Jack Jones, Topsail Beach; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Services: 3 p.m. Sunday, Whitley’s Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by the Rev. R.J. Hammonds. Burial, Carolina Memorial Park.

Visitation: 2-3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. At other times, the family will be at the residence.

Memorials: Charity Baptist Church, 2420 Brantley Road, Kannapolis, N.C. 28083.

Edward Lewis Miller

NEW LONDON — Edward Lewis Miller, 84, 36165 Pickler Road, died Friday (June 2, 2000) at Stanly Manor.

Born April 9, 1916, in Stanly County, Mr. Miller was a son of the late Bettie Ritchie Miller and John Arthur Miller. A retired farmer, he served with the U.S. Navy for 20 years. He was in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and after Pearl Harbor, he was stationed in Hawaii as chief boatswain mate.

A graduate of New London High School, he was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 703 AF&AM and Kendalls Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Louise Pickler Miller; son Stephen Miller, Sanford; daughter Anita Miller Almond, New London; sister Mary Ella Hatley, Charlotte; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Services: 2 p.m. Sunday, Kendalls Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Sonny Reeves and the Rev. Dan Abernathy. Burial, church cemetery with military rites by Stanly County DAV.

Visitation: 6-8 tonight, Hartsell Funeral Home, Albemarle. At other times, the family will be at the home.

Memorials: Kendalls Baptist Church Building Fund, 32157 Kendalls Church Road, New London, N.C. 28127.

The last surviving grandson of Salisbury’s first Catholic couple died Thursday in Southern Pines where he had lived since retirement.

Monsignor John Francis Roueche, 94, had a distinguished career since he was ordained at at his home parish, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in 1933. He was the first native Salisburian to become a priest.

He was born Nov. 7, 1906, to the late John Patrick Roueche and Margaret Taaffe Roueche, who in 1887 were the first couple married at Sacred Heart Church following its dedication in 1882.

His grandfather, Francis Richard Roueche, arrived in Salisbury from France in 1838. He was married to the former Eliza Smith.

Monsignor Roueche attended Sacred Heart Catholic School and Belmont College in Belmont. He completed his theological course at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Md.

He was ordained in the same little mission church where he was baptized, received Holy Communion and was confirmed.

The Most Rev. William J. Hafey, D.D. Bishop of Raleigh, ordained Roueche on June 11, 1933, by . The ordination ceremony usually takes place at the cathedral church of the bishop of the diocese, but Bishop Hafey, wishing to honor the young neophyte and his pioneering relatives, came to Salisbury.

Roueche celebrated his first Solemn High Mass on June 18, 1933, at St. Matthew’s Church in Washington, D.C., where his immediate family had made their home for some years.

As a Monsignor, he returned to Sacred Heart on Sept. 21, 1993, to celebrate Mass on the 60th anniversary of his ordination.

In his departing remarks at the event, Roueche looked both to the past and the future.

“Certainly Salisbury is the place, and Sacred Heart parish is the parish. When I was a boy, the big sign down at the railroad station was ‘Salisbury Is The Place,’ and on the other side, ‘The Home of Mint Cola.’ Mint Cola is gone, but Salisbury is and will always be th place. And may we all meet again in our true and heavenly home. God Bless!”

Roueche served as a Army chaplain during World War II.

In the 1950s, he was in charge of the Catholic mobile chapel, “The Madonna of the Highways,” which toured the state when Catholics were few and far between in many areas.

He retired to Southern Pines in 1975, but continued to say two Masses on Sunday at the age of 86. He served in 11 parishes from New Bern to Ashevile during his 42 years of active priesthood.

Roueche was a priest in the Catholic Diocese in Raleigh in 1955 when Pope Pius XII honored him with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor.

His brothers Lawrence and John and sisters Elizabeth, Bernadette, Genevieve, Hortense, Teresa, Agnes and Gertrude, preceded him in death.

Descendants of patriarch Francis Richard Roueche still live in Rowan County.

Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Belmont Abbey Church. Burial, Abbey cemetery.

John Augusta Stringer

CLEVELAND— John Augusta Stringer, 77, 4470 Foster Road, died Friday (June 2, 2000) at Rowan Regional Medical Center.

Born Dec. 16, 1922, Mr. Stringer was a son of the late Hannah Davidson Stringer and George W. Stringer. A graduate of J.C. Price High School, he was a retired maintenance worker for General Motors in Detroit, Mich., and was a member of Cameron Avenue Church of Christ in Detroit and Rock Hill Church of Christ.

Survivors include son George Lewis Stringer, Durham; daughter Patricia Stringer, Ocean Beach, Va.; brothers Herbert and Calvin Stringer, both of Cleveland; sisters Annette Landrum, Cleveland, and Georgia Landrum, Salisbury; and a grandchild.

Services: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Rock Hill Church of Christ, conducted by Anthony Reese, pastor. Burial, church cemetery. Noble and Kelsey Funeral Home is in charge.

Visitation: 2 p.m. Sunday, at the church.

Alton Eugene Thompson

CHARLOTTE — Alton Eugene Thompson, 73, 5817 Lebanon Road, died Thursday (June 1, 2000) at Beverly Healthcare Renaissance.

Born July 31, 1926, in Albemarle, Mr. Thompson was a son of the late Della Jane Easley Thompson and Clyde McCoin Thompson. He was a member of Main Street United Methodist Church, a graduate of Albemarle City Schools and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was self employed in carpet manufacturing.

His wife, Johnnye Jane Pickler Thompson, died on Dec. 29, 1997.

Survivors include son Alton Eugene Thompson Jr., Dalton, Ga.; daughter Jane Pickler Thompson, Atlanta, Ga.; brother Lyndell D. Thompson, Charlotte; sister Audrey Thompson Byrd, Albemarle; and three grandchildren.

Memorial service: 4 p.m. Sunday, Lefler Memorial Chapel of Hartsell Funeral Home-Albemarle, conducted by the Rev. Truette Rogers. Burial, Kendalls Baptist Church Cemetery, New London.

Visitation: 3-4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.