OBITUARIES


Local obituaries for Statesville, North Carolina

Ada Rozella West

Ada Rozella West

Mar 28, 2016

Ada Rozella Lackey West, 94, of Statesville, passed away Monday, March 28, 2016 at the Gordon Hospice House. She was born in Alexander County on February 9, 1922 to the late Thomas Smith Lackey and Maude Webber Lackey. Mrs. West attended Central School in Iredell County and was from a family of 16 sisters and brothers. She was first married...

Wylie Lenue Hooks, Sr.

Wylie Lenue Hooks, Sr.

Mar 28, 2016

Wylie Lenue Hooks, Sr., 80, of Harmony, passed away Monday, March 28, 2016 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. He was born on August 29, 1935 in Conway, S.C. to the late Celia Hooks. Mr. Hooks was educated in South Carolina Schools and was married to Judy Snyder Hooks in 1958. They enjoyed over 58 years of marriage before his passing. He...

Gloria Gay Byers

Gloria Gay Byers

Mar 27, 2016

Mrs. Gloria Gay Feimster Byers, 57, of Statesville died, Sunday, March 27, 2016, at Gordon Hospice House. She had been in declining health for a number of years and rapidly declined over the past few days. She was born in Iredell County on December 3, 1958 to the late James "Sammy" Feimster and Gay Brotherton Stevenson. She was preceded in...

Tony Ray Baggarley

Tony Ray Baggarley

Mar 27, 2016

Tony Ray Baggarley, 69, of Statesville, passed away peacefully Sunday March 27, 2016 at his home. Tony was born August 1, 1946 in Statesville to Elva M. Daniels and Charlie A. Baggarley. Tony attended Statesville High School and graduated from Mitchell Community College and UNC Charlotte. He served his country honorably in the Army during the Vietnam War as part...

Grady Samuel Hicks

Grady Samuel Hicks

Mar 26, 2016

Mr. Grady Samuel Hicks, 74, of Statesville, died Saturday, March 26, 2016. Born in Iredell County on December 5, 1941, he was a son of the late Elmer Hicks and Ruth Irene Doby Hicks. Mr. Hicks retired from Southern Screw Company and was of the Baptist faith. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister,...

Margaret Diane Jordan

Margaret Diane Jordan

Mar 26, 2016

Mrs. Margaret Diane Morrison Jordan, 78, of Statesville, died March 26, 2016 at Mapleleaf Health Care Center. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on August 7, 1937, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Morrison and Genevieve Park Morrison. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Tom and a sister, Claire. She was a collector of ceramic and...

Dennis Wayne Mayberry

Dennis Wayne Mayberry

Mar 25, 2016

Dennis Wayne Mayberry, 64, of Statesville, died Friday, March 25, 2016 at his home. Born November 30, 1951 in Iredell County, he was a son of Lester Grady Mayberry who survives and is of Troutman and Carolyn Ruth Loyd who survives and is of Harmony. He served in the U. S. Army. Survivors in addition to his parents, include brothers:...

John Holt Parrish

John Holt Parrish

Mar 25, 2016

John Holt Parrish, 92, of Charlotte, passed away Friday, March 25, 2016, at the Gordon Hospice House. There are no formal services scheduled at this time.

Tracy Lagail Wilson

Tracy Lagail Wilson

Mar 24, 2016

Mrs. Tracy LaGail Otey Wilson, 46, of Statesville, died Thursday, March 24, 2016 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Born December 1, 1969 in Mercer County, West Virginia, she was a daughter of Thomas R. Otey and Audrey LaGaye Barton Otey both of whom survive. Tracy was a member of Fairview Baptist Church and active in the P.T.A. at her children's school....

Betty Jo Anderson

Betty Jo Anderson

Mar 23, 2016

Mrs. Betty Jo Swicegood Anderson, 86, of Statesville, passed away, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Anderson was born October 7, 1929 in Rowan County and was the daughter of the late Lonnie and Maud Murfey Swicegood. She was a graduate of Cool Spring High school and on December 1, 1949, was married to the late Ernest...

Geraldine Madison White

Geraldine Madison White

Mar 23, 2016

Geraldine Madison Rash White, 94, of Statesville, went to be with her Lord and Savior in the early morning hours of March 23, 2016. She passed away peacefully with family at her bedside. Gerry was born in Union Grove, North Carolina, on December 7, 1921, to the late Robert Fulton and Mary Eugenia Madison Rash. She attended Union Grove School,...

Sarah Katherine Bledsoe

Sarah Katherine Bledsoe

Mar 23, 2016

Sarah Katherine Bledsoe, 63, of Statesville, died Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at the Gordon Hospice House. Born in Pensacola, Florida on September 13, 1952, she was a daughter of the late Herman Paul Williams and Nona Carolyn Crumbley. Her husband, Roy Jack Bledsoe, died in 2008. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Nancy Elizabeth Hubbard. She was...

Jeanette Shumaker Nicholson

Jeanette Shumaker Nicholson

Mar 22, 2016

Mrs. Jeanette Shumaker Nicholson, 89, of Statesville, died Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Born in Guilford County on June 18, 1926, she was a daughter of the late Dewey Clarence Shumaker and Hessie Johnson Shumaker. She was a member of Rose Chapel United Methodist Church where she was faithful to Sunday school and was an avid seamstress...

Shirley Kathryn Sledd

Shirley Kathryn Sledd

Mar 20, 2016

Mrs. Shirley Kathryn Bennett Sledd, 89, of Mooresville, passed away Sunday, March 20, 2016, at Autumn Care in Statesville. Mrs. Sledd was born in Waycross, GA on February 14, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Brantley and Ethel Bennett. After an absence from school, she was proud to graduate high school alongside her son Larry in 1962 and...

Sylvia Clarise Privette

Sylvia Clarise Privette

Mar 19, 2016

Sylvia Clarise Beaver Privette, 82, formally of Statesville, passed away Saturday, March 19, 2016 at Acosta-Rua Center for Caring in Jacksonville, Florida. She was born in Long Branch, New Jersey on March 21, 1933 to the late George P. and Sylvia Dorothy Johnston Beaver. Mrs. Privette was a graduate of Long Branch High School and was married to William Lee...

Jeffrey A. Johnson

Jeffrey A. Johnson

Mar 19, 2016

Jeffrey "Jeff" A. Johnson, 49, passed away on March 19, 2016 in Charlotte, NC. He was born on October 12, 1966 in Statesville, NC and is survived by his parents Melissa and Ed Corbean and Barry and Linda Johnson. He is also survived by Mitzi and Kevin Gooden, Katelyn, Kaleb, and Kane Gooden; Roy Patterson; Janelle and John Henderson; Jennifer,...

Hank William Brandon

Hank William Brandon

Mar 19, 2016

Hank William Brandon, 46, of Statesville, passed away Saturday, March 19, 2016. He was born in Dallas, Texas to the late Michael Francis Brandon and Shirley Ann Frid Brandon Thurmond, who survives. Hank was a graduate of Troup High School in Georgia and received his BS Degree in Computer Science. He served his country honorably in the U.S. Army retiring...

Andremise Seme

Andremise Seme

Mar 17, 2016

Marie Andremise Adelaide Seme, 86, of Statesville, died Thursday, March 17, 2016 at home. She was born November 22, 1929, in Port Au Prince, Haiti to the late Poline Paulinice and Eliomise Existe. On April 10, 1947 she married Julice Seme who preceded her in death in 1988. Andremise was a member of St. Phillips Catholic Church and had been...

Martha Ann Kiser

Martha Ann Kiser

Mar 16, 2016

Mrs. Martha Ann Johnson Kiser, 68, of Statesville, passed away, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. Mrs. Kiser was born May 3, 1947 in Iredell County and was the daughter of the late Clarence Johnson, Sr. and Fanny Mae Southard Johnson. She attended Harmony schools, worked as a home health care giver for Personal Touch and was married to Gabriel Salas Sustaita,...

Elizabeth Alexander Livingston

Elizabeth Alexander Livingston

Mar 16, 2016

Miss Elizabeth Alexander Livingston, 35, of Statesville, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at her residence. Miss Livingston was born in Iredell County on March 9, 1981, and was the daughter of Jerry Allen Livingston and Karen Porterfield Livingston. She was a graduate of Statesville High School, Class of '99, and attended Mitchell Community College and UNC Charlotte...

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