Obituaries
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...
John Estes
Dec 25, 2014
Mr. John Wayne Estes, 68, of Statesville, died December 25, 2014 at his home. Born May 7, 1946 in Iredell County, he was a son of the late Claude Estes and Georgia Hefner Estes. He attended Christ Independent Baptist Church and retired after 38 years of service as an upholsterer from Thomasville Furniture Company, formerly Gilliam Furniture. He attended Central...
Jean Madison Bingham
Dec 25, 2014
Jean Madison Bingham, 90, of Statesville, passed away Thursday, December 25, 2014, at the Gordon Hospice House. She was born in Union Grove on November 12, 1924, and was the daughter of the late Sherrill Martin Madison and Ruby Douglas Madison. She moved with her family to Statesville when she was two years old and lived there for the remainder...
Sherle L. Monheim
Dec 25, 2014
Sherle L. Monheim, 69, passed away in Statesville, NC on December 25, 2014, after her long and courageous battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Sherle is preceded in death by her father John P. Morgan Sr, and her mother Rose Marie Morgan. She is survived by her Husband, Walt Monheim, her brother John P. Morgan (Julia), her four children, Thomas Foerster (Marie),...
Don Antisdel
Dec 25, 2014
Donald Jay Antisdel, 69, of Olin, passed away Thursday, December 25, 2014, at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Mr. Antisdel was born in Niles, MI on November 23, 1945, and was the son of the late Lyle Antisdel and Jean Antisdel. He was a graduate of Maynard Evans High School in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Antisdel was a veteran of the U.S. Army....
Mildred Bowers
Dec 24, 2014
Mildred Payne Bowers, 92, of Statesville, passed away Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at Maple Leaf Health Care. She was born in Iredell County on June, 9, 1922 to the late W. P. and Geniva Moose Payne. Mrs. Bowers was a graduate of Iredell County Schools and was married to Wade F. Bowers, who preceded her in death on September 9,...
Marian Gilleland
Dec 23, 2014
Marian Elizabeth Gilleland, 93, of Statesville, passed away Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at the Gordon Hospice House. She was born on March 13, 1921 in Iredell County to the late Ernest B. and Mary Hux Gilleland. Marian was a graduate of Statesville High School. She was of Baptist Faith and worked at Beauty Maid Mills as a shipping clerk most...
Willie Gilchrist
Dec 22, 2014
Mrs. Willie McDonald Gilchrist, 82, of Statesville, passed away Monday, December 22, 2014, at the Gordon Hospice House following an extended illness. Mrs. Gilchrist was born on January 3, 1932, in Harnett County, NC and was the daughter of the late William H. McDonald and Susan M. McDonald. She was a graduate of Anderson Creek High School and was married...
Robert Lee Benfield
Dec 21, 2014
Mr. Robert Lee Benfield, 92, of 335 N. Oakland Ave., Statesville, died Sunday December 21, 2014 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Born in Iredell County on September 30, 1922 he was a son of the late Earley Lee Benfield and Kate Jane Josey Benfield. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Nancy Potts Laney and...
Larmazelle W. Hutchens
Dec 20, 2014
Mrs. Larmazelle "Zell" Warrick Hutchens, 82, of Statesville, died Saturday December 20, 2014 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Born in Independence, Va. On July 27, 1932, she was a daughter of the late Robert Warrick and Lillian Jones Warrick. Her husband, James Robert Hutchens died on June 27, 2003. She retired from the textile industry as a quality inspector and attended...
Sr. Charles Sabert Davis
Dec 19, 2014
Mr. Charles Sabert Davis, Sr. 81, of Statesville, died Friday, December 19, 2014 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Born in Iredell County on June 12, 1933, he was a son of the late Charles Robey Davis and Mary Goble Davis. On November 13, 1965 he married the former Joan McDonald who survives. Mr. Davis was a retired Master...
Phillip Hamilton
Dec 19, 2014
Mr. Phillip Freeman Hamilton, 54, of Statesville, passed away Friday, December 19, 2014, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC Mr. Hamilton was born in Catawba County on December 31, 1959, and was the son of Alma Freeman Hamilton and the late Robert B. Hamilton. He was a graduate of Hickory High School and he received his Associates in Applied...
Garland McDaniels
Dec 18, 2014
Mr. Garland Jackie McDaniels, 59, of 1317 7th St. Statesville, died at his son's home on Thursday, December 18th following an extended illness. He was born in Iredell County and was preceded in death by his loving wife, Linda McDaniels and his son, William McDaniels. He was educated in the Iredell County Schools and was the associate pastor of the...
John Link
Dec 17, 2014
John David Link, 90, passed away from this earth on December 17, 2014 at the Gordon Hospice House. He was born December 31, 1923 to the late John McLain and Bertha Speaks Link, the first of seven children. Mr. Link graduated from Union Grove High School in 1943 and on October 20, 1944, married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Helen...
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...
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...
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...