Obituaries

Derlie Campbell

Derlie Campbell

Dec 14, 2014

Derlie Williams Campbell, 72, of Statesville, passed away Sunday, December 14, 2014, at Davis Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Campbell was born April 7, 1942, in Iredell County and was the daughter of Hazel Edwards Williams and the late J.C. Williams. She graduated from Union Grove School and was employed as a CNA at several home health care agencies before her...

Roger Sharpe

Roger Sharpe

Dec 13, 2014

Roger Dale Sharpe, 66, of Statesville, passed away Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. He was born in Iredell County on June 27, 1948 to the late Boyd Lee and Margaret Virginia Hefner Sharpe. Roger was educated in the Iredell County Schools and in 1977, he married Saralena Sue Teetor Sharpe, who survives. They had over 36 years...

Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson

Dec 13, 2014

Larry Lee Johnson, 68, of Troutman, died unexpectedly at his home on Saturday, December 13, 2014. He was born in Wilkes County on March 19, 1946 to the late Robert Truman Johnson and Elsie Dowell Johnson Griffin. Larry attended Central School and on March 23, 1973, he married Patricia Bustle Johnson, who survives. They had over 41 years of marriage...

Velma Smith

Velma Smith

Dec 13, 2014

Mrs. Mary Velma Smith, 81, formally of Statesville, passed away Saturday, December 13, 2014 at Levine and Dickson Hospice House of Huntersville. She had resided the last five years with her daughter and her family in Mint Hill, NC She was born on January 31, 1933 in Iredell County to the late Augustus Green and Fannie Lou York Goodwin. Miss...

Bo Stamey

Bo Stamey

Dec 8, 2014

Mr. Robert Lee (Bo) Stamey, 60, of 519 St. Andrews Rd., Statesville, died December 8, 2014 at his home. Born April 22, 1954 in Greensboro, he was a son of the late Coy Lee (Bill) Stamey, Jr. and Norma Toomes Stamey who survives and is of Statesville. Mr. Stamey was the retired General Manager of Beck-Mercedes in Charlotte. He was...

Glenna Joyner

Glenna Joyner

Dec 7, 2014

Glenna Smith Joyner, 84, of Harmony, passed away Sunday, December 7, 2014 at the Gordon Hospice House. She was born on December 11, 1929 in Iredell County to the late George and Esma Renegar Smith. Mrs. Joyner was a graduate of Harmony High School Class of 1948 where she served as Valedictorian of her class. She remained close to all...

Lyn Hay

Lyn Hay

Dec 5, 2014

Mr. William Lynwood "Lyn" Hay, 89, of Statesville, passed away Friday, December 05, 2014, at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Lyn was born July 14, 1925, in Crosland, GA and was the son of the late Idus Linwood Hay and Lettie Clark Hay. He was a graduate of Deshlar High School and Florence State University in Colbert County, AL. Lyn earned his...

Siers Jean Polley

Siers Jean Polley

Dec 4, 2014

Jean Marie James Polley-Siers, 85, of Statesville, passed away Thursday, December 4, 2014. She was born in Trumbull County, Ohio on March 21, 1929 to the late Arthur David James and Emily Jean Cobb James. Jean was a graduate of Warren G. Harding High School and Kent State University where she received her teaching degree. She was a special education...

Peggy Bristol

Peggy Bristol

Dec 4, 2014

Peggy Brawley Bristol, 83, of Statesville, died December 4, 2014, at the Gordon Hospice House following an extended illness. Born in Mooresville on January 17, 1931, she was the daughter of the late Robert Lawson and Nannie Smith Brawley. In 1948, she was selected by the city of Mooresville to represent the city as Miss Mooresville in the Carolinas' Christmas...

Dottie Tharpe

Dottie Tharpe

Dec 3, 2014

Dorothy "Dottie" Barham Tharpe, 81, formerly of Statesville, passed away Wednesday, December 03, 2014 at Abernethy Laurels of Newton, NC. She was born in Sanford, NC on September 1, 1933 to the late Rev. Joseph T. and Julia McIver Barham. Dottie was a graduate of Harmony High School and Mitchell College with a degree in Music and Voice. On October,...

Esther Cook

Esther Cook

Nov 29, 2014

Mr. Esther William Cook, 97, of Statesville, passed away peacefully Saturday, November 29, 2014 at the Gordon Hospice House surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Wilkes County on April 28, 1917 to the late Harrison Ennis Cook and Mattie Johnson Cook. Mr. Cook attended Iredell County Schools and married Virginia Lee Lippard Cook on September 3, 1942....

Betty Dotson

Betty Dotson

Nov 29, 2014

Betty Ellen Cooper Dotson excitedly began the next phase of her life on Saturday, November 29, 2014 in Greensboro, NC to where she had moved 7 years ago. Betty was born to Alexander Cooper and Annie Hopkins Cook Cooper on September 17, 1927. Betty graduated from Statesville High School in 1945 and attended Mitchell College for one year to study...

W.C. Madison Sr

W.C. Madison Sr

Nov 27, 2014

Weisner Clay Madison, Sr., 82, of Statesville, passed away Thursday, November 27, 2014 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. He was born in Iredell County on May 4, 1932 to the late C.E. Madison and Ina Belle Weisner Madison. Mr. Madison attended Union Grove School and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 until 1955. On April 14, 1951, he married...

Deborah White

Deborah White

Nov 27, 2014

Deborah Ann Wingate Beasley White, 57, of Statesville, passed away Thursday, November 27, at the Bridges of Statesville. She was born in Montgomery County, Virginia on February 6, 1957 to the late Charles Wingate and Maudie Dalton Quesenberry, who survives. Deborah was a graduate of Floyd County Schools in Virginia. She worked for Bryers Insurance and was a Certified Nursing...

Angie Minton

Angie Minton

Nov 27, 2014

Angela Gail "Angie" Dishman Minton, 46, of Hiddenite passed away unexpectedly at her home on Thursday, November 27, 2014. She was born in Iredell County on September 3, 1968 to James Henry and Pat Pace Dishman, who survive. Angie was a graduate of Iredell County Schools and on May 27, 1990 married Jerry Wayne Minton. They enjoyed over 24 years...

Bill Graham

Bill Graham

Nov 26, 2014

William "Bill" Alan Graham, 70, of Troutman, passed away at his home on Wednesday, November 26, 2014. He was born in Kannapolis on December 29, 1943 to the late Plummer Warren Graham and Susie Spradley Graham. Bill was graduate of A.L. Brown High School in Kannapolis and Wingate College where he was an All-American catcher on the baseball team. He...

Frances Fincannon

Frances Fincannon

Nov 24, 2014

Mrs. Frances Christopher Fincannon, 89, of Statesville, died Monday, November 24, 2014 at Mapleleaf Health Care Center. Born in Iredell County on August 22, 1925, she was a daughter of the late Walter David Christopher and Lottie Danyels Christopher. On December 1, 1945 she married Arthur Lee Fincannon, Sr. who died on June 14, 2001. Frances loved her family, Sunday...

Lib Steele

Lib Steele

Nov 24, 2014

Mrs. Eunice Elizabeth "Lib" Walker Steele, 97, of Cleveland, NC, passed away Monday, November 24, 2014, at her home. Mrs. Steele was born in Rutherfordton County, NC on June 9, 1917, and was the daughter of the late Addie Grey Walker and Dora Burgess Walker. She attended Rutherfordton County schools and on June 29, 1940, she married Hubert Earl Steele,...

Inez Payne

Inez Payne

Nov 24, 2014

Mrs. Inez Tweed Payne, 84, of Statesville, passed away November 24, 2014 at Gordon Hospice House. Mrs. Payne was born October 18 , 1930 in Madison County, NC, and was the daughter of the late Aaron Tweed and Murphy Fox Tweed. She was a member of Monticello United Methodist Church in Statesville, and the wife of the late William Mack...

Barbara Gordon

Barbara Gordon

Nov 23, 2014

Barbara Fried Gordon, of Statesville, passed away, Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Gordon was born in Boston, MA and was the daughter of the late Samuel and Irene Fried. She was an honor graduate of Newton High School in Boston and also attended Mitchell College in Statesville. On July 22, 1951, she was married to Ellis...

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