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Vale - Betty Mae Turner Willis, 70 of 9360 Willis Road passed away Sunday,
December 25, 2016 at Carolina Rehab of Burke.

Christopher Thomas TenEyck, age 44, died Sunday, December 25, 2016 at Mission Health Systems in Asheville.

David Milton Pruett, 56, of Casar Lawndale Road, passed away Monday,
December 26, 2016 at his home.

Henry Rennie McKelvie, age 91 resident of Kings Mountain, NC passed away on December 24, 2016 and has gone home to be with the Lord.

Ida Queen Wallace "Big Mama", age 94 died Sunday, December 25, 2016 at Grapperhall Home of Senior Care Carolinas, in Huntersville.

SHELBY- Joseph Everett Keener, 80, passed way Friday December 23, 2016 at his residence.

Judy Ann Walker Floyd, 71, of 219 Acre Rock Road, Lawndale, passed away
Friday, December 23, 2016 at Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospital at Kings
Mountain.

Laban Rhyne Kelly Jr., 90, of Lake Lure, went home to be with his Savior on Monday, December 26, 2016.

Leon M. Bailey, age 64, of Rutherfordton, passed away Friday, December 23, 2016 at his residence.

Lonnie "Dickie" Burgess, age 75 resident of Kings Mountain, NC passed away on December 25, 2016 at Testa Family Hospice House.

Nancy Ledford Byrd, age 67, of Spindale, passed away on Sunday, December 25, 2016 at Rutherford Regional Medical Center.

Oleene Lockridge Anderson, age 89 resident of Kings Mountain, NC passed away on December 23, 2016 at Peak Resources, Shelby, NC.

Pauline "Polly" Bailey, age 77, of Piney Ridge Road, Forest City, passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at her residence.

Blacksburg -- Rev. William Marshall Jackson, 67, of 200 West Carolina Street Apt E-8, passed away Saturday, December 24th, 2016, at Mary Black Health System - Gaffney.

Rosa Lee Franklin Martin, age 81, of Rutherfordton passed away Wednesday December 28 at White Oak Manor.

Rosie L. Hunt, age 90, of Bostic, passed away Saturday, December 24, 2016 at the Fair Haven Home of Forest City.

Sandra Camp Keeter, age 69, died Monday, December 26, 2016 at her home.

Mrs. Sarah "Tinnie" Elizabeth Spake Towery, 90, of Blacksburg, SC, passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at her residence.

HELBY-Stephen Weldon McKnight, 66, went home to be with his Lord, Mon., Dec. 26, 2016, at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Steven Travis Demetro, 43, of Old Home Place, Kings Mountain, passed away
Sunday, December 25, 2016 at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Victor David Hamrick, 66, 652 N. Shelby St., Blacksburg, SC, died December 27, 2016, at home.

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City of Shelby Holiday Closings
The City of Shelby Holiday Closings are as follows: Garbage and recycling for Monday, January 2, 2016 will be collected a day later on Tuesday, January 3, 2017.

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