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Ray Edward Beaver
KANNAPOLIS — Ray Edward
Beaver, 6800 Wright Road, died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 1999) at NorthEast MedicalCenter,
Concord.
Born Feb. 17, 1915, in Enochville,
Mr. Beaver was a son of the late Charles William and Iva Overcash Beaver. He was educated
in the Rowan County schools and was a lifelong member of St. Enoch Lutheran Church. A
farmer, he retired from Cannon Mills.
His wife, Beatrice Pearson Beaver,
died March 8, 1995.
He is survived by a number of
nieces and nephews.
Services: Graveside, 10:30 a.m.
Friday, St. Enoch Lutheran Church cemetery. Memorial service in the church at 11. The Rev.
John Mark Beaver will officiate.
Visitation: 7-8 tonight,
Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home, Landis.
Memorials: St. Enoch
LutheranChurch, 701 Campbell Ave., Kannapolis, N.C. 28081.
Elizabeth Finnan
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. —
Elizabeth Price Finnan, 84, St. Augustine, a native of Salisbury, N.C., died Friday (Dec.
24, 1999).
A resident of St. Augustine since
1979, she was a cum laude graduate of Columbia University in New York. She was an officer
in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II and a member of Trinity Episcopal
Parish.
Survivors include daughter Sallie
Danielson, Orlando.
Funeral services will be private.
Craig Funeral Home is in charge.
Sidney Garner
MOCKSVILLE — Sidney Garner,
John Crotts Road, died Thursday (Dec. 30, 1999) at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical
Center, Winston-Salem.
Eaton Funeral Home is in charge.
Morris Herring
KANNAPOLIS — Morris Milton
Herring, 86, 1345 Sharon St., died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 1999) at NorthEast Medical Center,
Concord, after a brief illness.
Born Feb. 23, 1913, in Madison
County, Ga., Mr. Herring was a son of the late Lonnie Alton and Luticia Morris Herring. A
charter member of Memorial Baptist Church, he retired from Cannon Mills No. 6 weave room.
Survivors include wife Mary
Kathleen Snelling Herring; daughter Mrs. Donald H. (Sharon Herring)Rodgers, Kannapolis;
brother Carl Herring, Colbert, Ga.; and four grandchildren.
Services:11 a.m. Friday, Memorial
Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Don Davis and the Rev. Tim Gold. Burial, Carolina
Memorial Park.
Visitation: 7-8:30 tonight,
Lady’s Funeral Home. At other times the family will be at the home on Sharon Street.
Memorials: Memorial Baptist
Church, 1217 Centergrove Road,Kannapolis, N.C. 28083.
Eveland Harvey Jones
KANNAPOLIS — The funeral will
be Friday for Eveland “Emo” Harvey Jones, 72, 207 Overcash Ave., who died
Tuesday (Dec. 28, 1999) at NorthEast Medical Center, Concord.
Born June 20, 1927, in Catawba
County, Mr. Jones was a son of the late Alvie Burett and Corrie Lee Brown Jones. He
retired in 1994 after 20 years from Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, Concord, now NorthEast
Medical Center. He had worked at Cannon Memorial YMCA from 1945-1971. A member of Bethpage
United Methodist Church, he was church treasurer for 25 years.
Survivors include wife Ethel Bolen
Jones; son Douglas HarveyJones, Salisbury; daughter Amy Jones Ikerd, Raleigh; brother
Collins C. Jones, Sherrills Ford; and four grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Bethpage
United Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Randy Foster. Burial, West Lawn Memorial
Park, China Grove.
Visitation: 7-9 tonight,
Whitley’s Funeral Home.
Memorials: Bethpage United
Methodist Church, 109 Fellowship Ave., Kannapolis, N.C. 28081; or Rowan Regional Home
Health and Hospice, 825-A W. Henderson St., Salisbury, N.C. 28144.
Frances Collins Lucas
CHINA GROVE — Frances Collins
Lucas, 73, 75 Central Ave., died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 1999) at Rowan Regional Medical
Center, Salisbury.
Born Jan. 2, 1926, in Montgomery
County, Mrs. Lucas was a daughter of the late William H. and Elizabeth Luther Collins.
Educated in the Rowan County schools, she was a homemaker and a member of South China
Grove Methodist Church.
Her husband, Grady Clifford Lucas
Jr., died Dec. 23, 1985.
Survivors include son Tommy
Lucas,Salisbury; daughter Suzanne Pennington, China Grove; brothers Max and Sidney
Collins, both of China Grove, and Luther Collins, Salisbury; sister Lucille Pollard, China
Grove; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services: Noon Monday, Northcrest
Chapel, Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home, China Grove, conducted by the Rev. David Phelps,
pastor, First Baptist Church, China Grove. Graveside, 1 p.m. Monday, National Cemetery,
Salisbury.
Visitation: 7-8:30 p.m. Sunday at
the funeral home. At other times the family will be at the home on Central Avenue.
‘Tommy’ Edward
Morton
NEW LONDON — Thomas
“Tommy” Edward Morton, 71, New London, died Tuesday (Dec. 28, 1999) at NorthEast
Medical Center, Concord.
Born June 21, 1928, in Cabarrus
County, Mr. Morton was a son of the late Jesse Sylvester and Ruth Elizabeth Dobson Morton.
He was a graduate of Concord High School.
Retired in 1991 from Fieldcrest
Cannon bleachery department, he worked part-time for M and M Lawn Care. He was a member of
Mount Olive Baptist Church, Albemarle, and a former member of Landis Baptist Church,
Landis, where he was a former Sunday school superintendent, deacon and member of the
choir.
Survivors include wife Louise
“Lou” Love Morton; son Ronnie E. Morton, Enochville; sisters Pansy
“Pat”Springer and Audrey Potts, both of Reed; and one grandson.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Central
Baptist Church, Kannapolis, conducted by the Rev. Curtis Parker, the Rev. Nelson Wright,
the Rev. Bobby Utley and the Rev. Richard Horn. Burial, Carolina Memorial Park,
Kannapolis.
Visitation: 7-9 tonight,
Whitley’s Funeral Home, Kannapolis.
Memorials: Mount Olive Baptist
Church, 1109 Love St., Albemarle, N.C. 28001.
Josie Lovin Pierce
CHARLOTTE — Josie Lovin
Pierce, 72, Charlotte, a former Salisbury resident, died Tuesday (Dec. 28, 1999) at Wesley
Care Center.
Born Feb. 25, 1927, in Beaufort,
Mrs. Pierce was a daughter of the late James W. and Beatrice Skinner Lovin. After her
parent’s died during her early childhood she was reared in Salisbury by an aunt and
uncle, the late Adelle and Bert Ray. She retired as a patient representative in 1982 from
Carolinas Medical Center.
Survivors include daughters
Patricia Balentine, Charlotte, and Janet Plyler, Pageland, S.C.; four grandchildren; and
two great-grandchildren.
Services: Memorial, 12:30 p.m.
Friday, McEwen Funeral Service, Charlotte Chapel, conducted by the Rev. John Harrill.
Graveside, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Rowan Memorial Park, Salisbury, conducted by Dr. W.E. Pierce.
Visitation: 7-8:30 tonight at the
funeral home.
Memorials: American Lung
Association of North Carolina, 5315 Greenbrook Drive, Charlotte, N.C. 28205.
Paul James Potts
MOCKSVILLE — Paul James
Potts, Duke Whittaker Road, died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 1999) at Davie County Hospital.
Eaton Funeral Home is in charge.
Mabel Peeler Reep
The funeral will be Friday for
Mabel Peeler Reep, 72, 2214 Mooresville Road, who died Tuesday (Dec. 28, 1999) at Rowan
Regional Medical Center after five years of declining health and several days of serious
illness.
Born March 14, 1927, in Rowan
County, Mrs. Reep was a daughter of the late Manuel Murphy and Mary Gudger Peeler. Retired
from Stanback Powder Co., she was educated in the Rowan County schools. She was a member
of Friendship Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Senior Adult Sunday school
class and chairman of the Care committee.
Survivors include husband George
Reep, whom she married July 22, 1945; daughter Diane Reep Rainey, Salisbury; brother Bill
Peeler, Salisbury; and sister Norma Jean Peeler Boger, Rockwell.
Services: 3 p.m. Friday, Lyerly
Funeral Home’s James C. Lyerly Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Jim Harris and the Rev.
Roger Head. Burial, Rowan Memorial Park.
Visitation: 7-8:30 tonight at the
funeral home. At other times the family will be at the home on Mooresville Road.
Memorials: Friendship Baptist
Church, 100 Porter Road,Salisbury, N.C. 28146.
James Sanford Sizemore
MOCKSVILLE — James Sanford
Sizemore, 69, Junction Road, died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 1999) at Forsyth Memorial Hospital,
Winston-Salem.
Born Dec. 17, 1930, in Yadkin
County, Mr. Sizemore was a son of the late Samuel Jones and Eula Collins Sizemore. He was
a self-employed carpenter.
His wife, Julia Peacock Sizemore,
died in 1972.
Survivors include son Michael
Sizemore, Cooleemee; daughter Judy Miller, Mocksville; brothers William and Phillip
Sizemore, both of Boonville, and Claude Sizemore, Elkin; two grandchildren; and one
great-grandchild.
Services: 2 p.m. Friday, Eaton
Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Joel Boyles and the Rev. Chris Williams.
Burial, Hardison United Methodist Church cemetery.
Visitation: 7-9 tonight at the
funeral home.
John William Smith
ALBEMARLE — John William
Smith, 70, 30490 Cane Drive, died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 1999) at his home after a brief
illness.
Born May 13, 1929, in Richmond
County, Mr. Smith was a son of the late John Braxton and Avilla McIver Smith. A veteran,
he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He retired from Fieldcrest Cannon plant
1 roller shop.
Survivors include son the Rev.
Mike Smith, Concord; daughter Tammy S. Trull, Albemarle; sisters Elizabeth S. Parks,
Kannapolis, and Margaret S. Brown, Concord; and seven grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday,
Whitley’s Funeral Home Chapel, Kannapolis, conducted by the Rev. Leon Smith. Burial,
Carolina Memorial Park, Kannapolis.
Visitation: 7-8:30 tonight at the
funeral home.
Memorials: Calvary Bible Mission
Fund, 355 Union Cemetery Road, Concord, N.C. 28025.
Eula Gwynn Sparks
SPENCER — Eula Gwynn Sparks,
95, Spencer, died Wednesday (Dec. 29, 1999) at Rowan Regional Medical Center, Salisbury.
Born March 27, 1904, in Liberal,
Mo., Mrs. Sparks was a daughter of the late James and Rose AnnTanner Gwynn. A homemaker,
she was a Baptist.
Her husband, Earl Burton Sparks,
preceded her in death.
She is survived by a nephew, Earl
D. Scott, Spencer.
The body will be cremated and a
memorial service held at a later date.
Evergreen Cremation Services is in
charge.
Bessie Greene Threatt
KANNAPOLIS — Bessie Louise
Greene Threatt, 84, Salisbury, formerly of Kannapolis, died Thursday (Dec. 30, 1999) at
Salisbury Lutheran Nursing Home after a period of declining health.
Born May 4, 1915, in Union County,
Mrs. Threatt was a daughter of the late Turner and Annie Greene. Educated in the Union
County schools, she retired after 45 years from Cannon Mills plant 1. She was a member of
Second Presbyterian Church, Kannapolis.
Her husband, Arthur Bruner
Threatt, died in 1959.
Survivors include son JoelThreatt,
China Grove; brother Albert Greene, Monroe; sister Ethel Greene, Monroe; two
grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Services: Graveside, 2 p.m.
Friday, Liberty Hill Baptist Church cemetery, Pageland, S.C., conducted by the Rev. Randy
Crowell, pastor, West Corinth Baptist Church.
Visitation: None.
Lyerly Funeral Home is in charge.
Memorials: Lutheran Nursing Home,
820 Klumac Road,Salisbury,N.C. 28144.
George Benjamin Ward
STANLEY — George Benjamin
Ward, 72, 118 Stanfield Drive, father of Neal Brock, China Grove, died Tuesday (Dec. 28,
1999) at his home.
Services: 2 today, E.F. Drum
Funeral Home Chapel, Lincolnton. Entombment, Hillcrest Gardens Mausoleum.
Visitation: 1-2 today at the
funeral home.
Memorials: Hospice of Gaston
County, P.O. Box 3984, Gastonia, N.C. 28053. |
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