Obituaries
Lucille Nicks (Pierce) Bost
Mar 30, 2017
Lucille Pierce Nicks Bost, 86, of Statesville, passed away unexpectedly at her residence on Thursday, March 30, 2017. She was born on October 11, 1930 in Martinsville, Va to the late Thomas Parks Pierce and Launa Alston Pierce. Mrs. Bost was a graduate of Statesville Senior High and was first married to Horace Monroe Nicks who preceded her in death...
Glenn "Tash" William Brooks
Mar 29, 2017
Glenn “Tash” William Brooks, 68, of Statesville, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at his residence. He was born on March 11, 1949 in Iredell County to the late Frank and Fannie Christie Brooks. Tash attended Statesville City Schools and served his country honorably in the U. S. Army. He worked in construction most of his career as a brick...
Minnie Laura (Brown) Cashion
Mar 26, 2017
Minnie Laura Brown Cashion, 101, passed peacefully on March 26, 2017. She was known to all simply as Minnie or Minnie Laura. Born March 11, 1916 in Mooresville, NC, she was the daughter of the late Walter D. Brown and Johnsie Duckworth. Minnie was a graduate of Appalachian State Teachers College (ASU), Boone, NC. Her most enjoyable career was as...
Felix Homer Williams
Mar 26, 2017
Mr. F. Homer Williams, 91, went home to be with our Heavenly Father on Sunday, March 26, 2017 unexpectedly. Born December 6, 1925 in Iredell County, he was the son of the late Felix Larkin and Callie Ader Fletcher Williams. He was a loving and caring father, grandfather, great grandfather and “Papa”. Lifelong dedicated dairy farmer and pillar of the...
Lillian Mae (Frazier) Warren
Mar 25, 2017
Lillian Mae Frazier Warren, 102, passed on March 25, 2017. Following the death of her mother at an early age, Lillian was a caretaker to many, a nurse for over 50 years, and a member of Front Street Baptist Church since 1961. Lillian was preceded in death by her late husband, Eugene Franklin Warren and her children, Harold Franklin Warren...
Linda (Loven) Lewis
Mar 24, 2017
Mrs. Linda Loven Lewis, 77, of Statesville, passed away, Friday, March 24, 2017 at the Gordon Hospice House. Linda was born February 3, 1940 in Charlotte, NC and was the daughter of the late Howard and Agnes Byers Loven. She grew up in Concord, NC and was a graduate of Concord High School, Mitchell College and High Point University. On...
Pauline Perry Pritchard
Mar 22, 2017
Pauline Pritchard Pauline Perry Pritchard, 87, of Statesville, passed away Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. She was born on October 10, 1929 in Iredell County to the late William Marsden Perry and Lula Little Perry. Mrs. Pritchard was a graduate of Harmony High School. She was married to Royal Worth Pritchard who preceded her in death...
Garry Alton Lanier
Mar 22, 2017
Garry Lanier Garry Alton Lanier, 76, of Statesville, passed away Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at the Gordon Hospice House with his family by his side. He was born in Iredell County on July 18, 1940 to the late Alton Flake Lanier and Margaret Ayers Lanier. Mr. Lanier was a graduate of Statesville Senior High School and married Shirley Redmond on...
Melvin Carroll Hinson
Mar 22, 2017
Melvin Carroll Hinson, 79, of Statesville, passed away unexpectedly at Lake Norman Regional Hospital on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. He was born April 18, 1937 in Statesville to the late Ed Lee and Hazel Compton Hinson. Carroll graduated from Statesville Senior High School in 1955. He worked for J.C. Penney Warehouse a few years and then for Tom’s Foods, Inc....
Ted Jefferson Medlin
Mar 21, 2017
Ted Jefferson Medlin, 77, of Statesville, passed away on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at the Gordon Hospice House. Mr. Medlin was born in High Point, NC on December 14, 1939, and was the son of the late Joe M. Medlin and Blanch Eury Medlin. He attended Guilford County schools and on October 4, 1960, he married Alma Mahaffey Medlin, who...
Allen Franklin Johnson
Mar 20, 2017
Allen Franklin Johnson, 80, of Statesville, passed away Monday, March 20, 2017 at the Brian Center of Statesville. He was born in Iredell County to the late Greeley Dexter Johnson and Effie Mae Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a graduate of Harmony High School and on October 14, 1956 married Ramona Lowe. They shared over 60 years of marriage before his...
James "Jim" Franklin Walsh
Mar 16, 2017
James F. Walsh (Jim) passed away on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at Gordon Hospice House in Statesville. Jim was born in Wilkes County in 1924 to John and Nora Bullis Walsh. He was one of seven children. He served in the US Army during WWII and married the love of his life, Avis N. Walsh in 1947 who preceded him...
Lue Gene McDaniels
Mar 15, 2017
Lue Gene McDaniels, 88, of Statesville, passed away after a brief illness at Iredell Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. He was born in Iredell County and was preceded in death by his former wife Margaret, an infant child, Artie, his daughter, Sandra Christopher, and his son, Garland McDaniels. Mr. McDaniels was educated in Iredell County Schools, retired from...
Clyde Edward Sigmon
Mar 14, 2017
Mr. Clyde Edward Sigmon, Sr., 87, of Statesville, passed away, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at Serenity House Hospice in Mooresville. Mr. Sigmon was born December 16, 1929 in Catawba County and was the son of the late Norman Sigmon and Nettie Shook Sigmon. He attended Catawba County Schools and served in the US Army during the Korean Conflict. In 1952,...
Douglas Worlds (D.W.) Goforth
Mar 13, 2017
Mr. Douglas Worlds “D.W” Goforth, 86, of Statesville, passed away Monday, March 13, 2017, at Davis Regional Medical Center. Mr. Goforth was born in Mt. Airy, NC on September 27, 1930, and was the son of the late Lonnie G. Goforth and Gertrude Warden Goforth. He attended Iredell County schools and served with the National Guard. On June 24, 1950,...
James Franklin (Jim) Rickert, Sr.
Mar 13, 2017
James Franklin “Jim” Rickert, Sr, 88, of Statesville, went home to his Lord and Savior on Monday, March 13, 2017, at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Jim was born May 18, 1928, in Iredell County and was the son of the late John Harton Rickert and Maude Edwards Rickert. He attended Central School and graduated from Scotts High School. On February 22,...
Arthur Ralph Kennedy
Mar 13, 2017
Mr. Arthur Ralph Kennedy, 87, of Catawba, NC passed away, Monday, March 13, 2017 at his residence. Mr. Kennedy was born April 5, 1929 in Iredell County to the late Arthur Ferrell Kennedy and Emma Lou Mills Kennedy. He was a graduate of Troutman High School and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. He was retired from...
Marian Martha (Simsen) Folke
Mar 11, 2017
Mrs. Marian Martha Simsen Folke, 84, of Morehead City, NC passed away, Saturday, March 11, 2017 at the Gordon Hospice House in Statesville, NC. Mrs. Folke was born April 11, 1932 in New York, NY to the late Albert F. Simsen and Margerit Willien Simsen. She was the first born American in the Simsen family and was a graduate of...
Larry Allen Sharpe
Mar 11, 2017
After a period of declining health, Allen Sharpe quietly passed from this life to his Eternal Home on March 11, 2017 at Autumn Care with his wife by his side. Allen was born and raised in Statesville on June 3, 1934 to Robert T. Sharpe and Annie Brown Sharpe. As a teenager, he enjoyed most his jobs at the Playhouse...
Maleah Antoinette Gray
Mar 9, 2017
Maleah Antoinette Gray, infant daughter of Jacobi Labronze Gray and Martina Antoinette Gaines who was born March 9, 2017, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, October 24, 2017. In addition to her parents, Maleah is survived by maternal grandparents, the late Cassandra Gaines, Johanna Malavet, Eddie Malavet, Kenneth Gregory; maternal great grandparents, Calvin Whitesides, Sandra Gaines, Carmen Galarza, Salvador Galarza, Sherly Tate,...
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