Remembering Loved Ones in Monroe, NC
Sucthell Brooks Richardson
Nov 11, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Sucthell Brooks Richardson, 92, died Tuesday, November 11, 2008. She was born in Union County, NC on November 9, 1916 daughter of the late Augustus and Giola Wade Brooks. A funeral service to celebrate her life will be held Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 2:00 PM in the Gordon Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in the...
Johnsie Bruce Montgomery
Nov 3, 2008
Monroe, NC Johnsie Bruce Montgomery, 69, died Monday, November 3, 2008. She was born in Union County, NC on November 24, 1938 daughter of the late Bruce and Pauline McWhorter Flowers. A memorial service will be held Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM in the Gordon Funeral Chapel. The family will receive friends following the service. Mrs. Montgomery...
Cristobal Perez Cortez
Nov 2, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Cristobal Perez Cortez, 23, died Sunday, November 2, 2008. He was born in Mexico on October 17, 1985 son of Francisca Cortez and the late Jose Cristobal Perez. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 10:30 AM at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Lakeland Memorial Park. He is...
Clinton Dreyfus Benton
Nov 2, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Clinton Dreyfus Benton, III, 59, died Sunday, November 2, 2008. He was born in Smithville, NC on January 16, 1949 son of the late Clinton D. and Alice Ramona Gardner Benton, Jr. Mr. Benton was a US Marine veteran, serving in Vietnam. A private memorial service will be held at a later date. He is survived...
O.T. Starnes
Nov 1, 2008
Dateline: Waxhaw, NC O. T. Starnes, Jr., 80, died Saturday, November 1, 2008, at home surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Union County, NC on October 19, 1928 son of the late Odus Theodore and Stella McWhorter Starnes. Mr. Starnes was a U.S. Army veteran and a retired employee of Springs Industries. He was a member...
Amy Williams Brown
Oct 31, 2008
Amy Williams Brown Mrs. Brown, 39, of Matthews, died Friday, October 31, 2008. She was born in Mecklenburg County, NC, on May 18, 1969, daughter of William Raeford and Lynda Tomberlin Williams. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at 2pm in the Gordon Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Shiloh Advent Christian Church Cemetery. Amy is...
Amy Williams Brown
Oct 31, 2008
Dateline: Matthews, NC Amy Williams Brown, 39, died Friday, October 31, 2008. She was born in Mecklenburg County, NC on May 18, 1969 daughter of William Raeford and Lynda Tomberlin Williams. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM in the Gordon Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Shiloh Advent Christian Church Cemetery. Amy is...
Ann Y. Couick
Oct 26, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Ann Y. Couick, 63, passed away peacefully at her home on Sunday, October 26, 2008. She was born in Lancaster County, SC on October 23, 1945 daughter of Mary Cleo Couick of Monroe and the late Wilburn Couick. She was an employee of the Harris Teeter Store in Wesley Chapel, NC. Ann is also survived by...
Timothy Charles Moses
Oct 21, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Timothy Charles Moses, 55, died Tuesday, October 21, 2008. He was born in Mecklenburg County on July 17, 1953, son of Shukree “Chick” Moses of Belmont and the late Edith Ligon Moses. Funeral services will be held Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 3:00 PM in Gordon Funeral Chapel, 1904 Lancaster Avenue, Monroe, NC 28112. In addition...
Marian Upchurch Dowdee
Oct 19, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Marian Upchurch Dowdee, 90, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 19, 2008, at Union County Hospice, Monroe, NC. She was born in Oxford, NC daughter of the late Rev. C. A. and Frances Reynolds Upchurch. Mrs. Dowdee was a retired school teacher, having spent most of her career at Fairview Elementary and Unionville Elementary schools. Funeral...
Willie Ruth Keziah
Oct 17, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Willie Ruth Keziah, 68, died October 17, 2008. She was born May 17, 1940, daughter of the late Clarence and Ruth Simpson Helms. She was preceded in death by her brother, Harold Lee Helms. Funeral services will be Monday, October 20, 2008 at 2:00 PM in Corinth Baptist Church. Entombment will follow at Lakeland Memorial Park....
Wanda Gail Whitaker
Oct 14, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Wanda Gail Whitaker, 56, died Tuesday, October 14, 2008. She was born in Cabarrus County, NC on June 18, 1952 daughter of the late Arthur Daniel and Frankie Christy Honeycutt. Graveside services will be held Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 2:30 PM in Lakeland Memorial Park. Wanda is survived by her husband, Phil Whitaker, daughter, Jenifer...
Michael M. Brooks
Oct 11, 2008
Michael M. Brooks 74, died Friday October 11, 2008 in CMC-Union. He was a native of Monroe born September 15, 1934, son of the late C. McClain and Frances Clark Brooks. A retired security and law enforcement officer, veteran of the US Army, and member of First Presbyterian Church. He was a graduate of Monroe High School and the...
Paulette Bunn Funderburk
Oct 10, 2008
Paulette Bunn Funderburk, 60, died Friday, October 10, 2008. She was born in Anson County on December 1, 1947, daughter of the late Charlie Rayvon and Elizabeth Adams Bunn. Funeral services will be held Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM in Hillcrest Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Friendly Baptist Church cemetery. Mrs. Funderburk is survived by her...
Geraldean Broadway Love
Oct 10, 2008
Mrs. Geraldean Broadway Love, 76, died Friday, October 10, 2008 in the Jesse Helms Center. A native of Union County, she was born January 30, 1932, daughter of the late Thomas E. and Eula Price Broadway. Funeral services will be held Sunday, Oct. 12th at 2:30 PM in the Crooked Creek Primitive Baptist Church, officiated by Elder Larry Austin...
Leola Baucom (Lee) Goodall
Oct 10, 2008
LeOla (Lee) Baucom Goodall, age 82, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 10, 2008, from chronic lung and heart illness. She was born May 2, 1926, in Monroe, North Carolina, to the late Victor and Ola Baucom. She attended Union School and Wingate College. On June 23, 1943, she was united in marriage to Will Edward (Bill) Goodall, of...
Betty W. Muldrow
Sep 27, 2008
Betty Lou Whitaker Muldrow, 76, died Saturday (Sept. 27, 2008) at Carolinas Medical Center-Union. Funeral, officiated by the Rev. Ginger Tucker, the Rev. Phyllis Slaymon and the Rev. J. Derrill Smith, will be 4 p.m. Tuesday at Gordon Funeral Service, with burial in Lakeland Memorial Park. Born Nov. 8, 1931, in Cocke County, Tenn., she was a daughter of...
Lilla Mae Yeargin
Sep 27, 2008
Lilla Mae Yeargin, 93, died Saturday, September 27, 2008. Mrs. Yeargin was born in Lexington, Georgia July 13, 1915 daughter of the late Henry Vann and Emma Jane Tiller Smith. Lilla was preceded in death by her husband Rev. Obie Lee Yeargin and a daughter Emma Jean Campbell. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 2:00PM...
John Haskell Baucom
Sep 25, 2008
Dateline: Marshville NC John Haskell Baucom, 81, died Thursday September 25, 2008. He was born March 18, 1927 in Union County, NC son of the late Clayton Eugene and Lydia Pearl Brewer Baucom. Haskell was retired from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture as a Poultry Inspector; he also was a veteran of the US Navy and served during...
Ruth Elaine Ashley Helms
Sep 25, 2008
Dateline: Monroe, NC Ruth Elaine Ashley Helms, 64, died Thursday, September 25, 2008. Mrs. Helms was born in Wilkes County, NC, April 8, 1944, daughter of the late Austin and Mae Goforth Ashley. Funeral services will be held Monday, September 29, 2008 at 5:00PM in the Chapel of Gordon Funeral Service, 1904 Lancaster Ave., Monroe, NC 28112. The family...
