Obituaries
Boyce Lambert
Jan 18, 2015
Boyce Clifton Lambert, 73, of Statesville departed this life at the Gordon Hospice House, Sunday, January 18, 2015. Born in Iredell County, May 5, 1941 to the late Clarence and Carrie Grant Lambert. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by siblings, Tom, Clarence Jr., Grady and Toby Lambert and sister, Lillian Lambert Cloer. Boyce graduated at...
Helen Ruth Graham
Jan 17, 2015
Helen Swicegood Goforth Graham, 89, of Statesville, passed away on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at Iredell Memorial Hospital following a period of declining health. She was the daughter of the late Lonnie and Maude Swicegood. Preceding her in death was her first husband, Willie Lee Goforth, whom she married in 1941. Her second marriage was to the late Haden Graham...
Jessie Neil Sowers Crosswhite
Jan 16, 2015
Mrs. Jessie Neil Sowers Crosswhite, 80, of Statesville, died Friday, January 16, 2015 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Born in Iredell County on August 9, 1934, she was a daughter of the late Neil Sharpe Sowers and Jessie Swanson Sowers. Jessie was a member of Western Ave. Baptist Church. She served as an Iredell County Commissioner from 1984 until 1990 and...
Homer Arthur Estes
Jan 15, 2015
Mr. Homer Arthur Estes, 86, of Statesville, passed away Thursday, January 15, 2015 at the Gordon Hospice House. He was born in Iredell County on May 9, 1928 to the late Ernest L. and Lottie Messick Estes. He married Hazel Lee Lackey Estes on September 28, 1946 and they shared 68 loving years together. Homer was an active member of...
Paul "Goat" Bass
Jan 15, 2015
Paul "Goat" Burgess Bass, 75, of Statesville, passed away Thursday, January 15, 2015 at the Gordon Hospice House. He was born in Iredell County to the late F.J. and Lillian Chambers Bass. Paul attended Harmony High School and served his country honorably in the Army. He was married on October 26, 1968 to Margaret Stevenson Bass, who preceded him in...
Mary Fulbright
Jan 13, 2015
Mary Lois Millsaps Fulbright, 74, of Statesville, passed away Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at her residence. She was born in Iredell County on April 26, 1940 to the late William Talmadge Millsaps and Carrie Marlow Millsaps. Mrs. Fulbright was a graduate of Central High School and was a member of Eufola Baptist Church. On April 12, 1974, she married Melvin...
Billy Joe Hurt
Jan 7, 2015
Mr. Billy Joe Hurt, 75, of Statesville, passed away Tuesday, January 7, 2015, at his home. Mr. Hurt was born in Palmersville, TN on June 23, 1939, and was the son of the late Carl Byron and Crenaze Miller Hurt. On September 16, 1995, he married Jennifer Jenkins Hurt, who survives. Mr. Hurt was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
Bill McMillan
Jan 7, 2015
William H. (Bill) McMillan passed away peacefully Saturday morning at Hospice and Palliative Care of Iredell County after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Gaffney, SC in 1938, Bill is survived by his wife of almost 50 years, Martha Eleanor Bynum, two daughters both in Statesville, Stacy McMillan Chapman and Mary Hannon McMillan Reid, four grandchildren, William Henry Chapman,...
Anne Pharr
Jan 5, 2015
Anne Marie King Pharr, 84, of Statesville, NC passed away Monday, January 5 at Autumn Care Nursing Facility of Statesville. Anne was born in Statesville on November 23, 1930 and was the daughter of the late John Shelton King Sr. and Sadie Greenwood King. She was a graduate of Central High School. She was a seamstress and later retired from...
Kenneth "Slick" Campbell
Jan 3, 2015
Kenneth "Slick" Jackson Campbell, 73, of Statesville, passed away Saturday, January 3, 2015 at the Gordon Hospice House. He was born in Iredell County on February 16, 1941 to the late Jackson R. and Maggie Templeton Campbell. Mr. Campbell attended Union Grove High School and was self-employed sheet metal worker with C and C Installation. He was a Mason and...
Sandy Hines
Jan 2, 2015
Sandra Louise Stewart Hines, 63, of Statesville, passed away Friday, January 2, 2015 at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. She was born in Iredell County on November 24, 1951 to the late Thomas Newell Stewart Sr. and Ethel Robinette Stewart. Sandy was a graduate of South Iredell High School and a member of Beulah Baptist Church. She was a homemaker most...
Geneva M. Bell
Dec 31, 2014
Geneva Myers Bell, 75, of Statesville, passed away at Iredell Memorial Hospital, December 31, 2014. She was born July 30, 1939 in Iredell County to the late Willie G. and Janie Rash Myers. Mrs. Bell was a graduate of Statesville Senior High School, class of 1957 and on August 30, 1958 married Charles E. Bell, who survives and they enjoyed...
Nellie Wallace Myers
Dec 30, 2014
Nellie Wallace Myers, 74, of Statesville, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, December 30, 2014. She was born in Iredell County on March 4, 1940 to the late Andrew G. and Viola Denny Wallace. Nellie was a graduate of Iredell County Schools and was married on December 21, 1956 to Billy Myers who preceded her death on June 10,...
Hubert "Hub" Morrow
Dec 30, 2014
Hubert Delmar "Hub" Morrow, 86, passed away Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at Autumn Care of Statesville. He was born on March 6, 1928 in Statesville to the late Hugh Ray Morrow and Mary Irene Benfield Morrow. He is predeceased by his sisters, Helen Morrow Fraver and Joyce Morrow Hall. Hub is survived by his sister, Phyllis Morrow McKinnell and husband...
Elmer Williamson Estes
Dec 30, 2014
Elmer Williamson Estes, 88, of Statesville, passed away Tuesday December 30, 2014 at the Gordon Hospice House. He was born in Iredell County on June 21, 1926 to the late Ernest L. and Lottie Messick Estes. Mr. Estes attended Iredell County Schools and was married to Nancy Stewart Estes, who preceded him in death on July 18, 1994. He was...
Lois Walker
Dec 29, 2014
� Lois Simmons Walker passed away peacefully on December 29, 2014 after a long illness. The daughter of John Alexander and Flossie Burge Simmons, Lois was born in Mt. Airy, North Carolina in 1930 and grew up on a working tobacco farm. She was a star basketball player at Pilot Mountain High School where she graduated in 1946. Lois also...
Ada Thomas
Dec 28, 2014
Mrs. Ada Louise Goforth Thomas, 94, formerly of Statesville, passed away, Sunday, December 28, 2014 at Asbury Care Center in Charlotte, NC following a period of declining health. Mrs. Thomas was born August 7, 1920 in Winston-Salem, NC and was the daughter of the late Lonnie G. and Gertrude Warden Goforth. She was a graduate of Troutman High School and...
Bonnie Ford
Dec 28, 2014
Bonnie Jean Brunson Ford, 86, of Statesvillle, passed away Sunday, December 28, 2014 at Genesis Health Care. She was born November 30, 1928 in Aransas Pass, Texas to the late Marvin Perry Brunson and Iva Geo Green Brunson. Mrs. Ford was a graduate of Aransas Pass High School and on September 19, 1945 married William Moore Ford, who preceded her...