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GROVER - Larry Eugene Melton left this life after a brief illness on Saturday, August 29, 2020.

Mrs. Ernestine Murray Hamrick, 84 of 114 Dixon Dairy Rd. Kings Mountain, NC passed away on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at Testa Family Hospice House in Kings Mountain.

Alice Faye Belk, 79, of Spindale, NC, passed away on September 06, 2020 at Hospice of Carolina Foothills in Forest City, NC.

Edgar Harold Bishop, age 89, passed away at Huntersville Oaks on September 16, 2020.

Jean Weaver Humphries, age 80, passed away on September 16, 2020 at Testa Hospice House in Kings Mountain, NC.

Larry Keith Rice, age 73, of Hoyle's Woods Trail, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Cherryville NC on Sept 4, 2020.

Howard Lee Adams, Sr., 76, of Lincolnton, NC passed away on Saturday, September 12, 2020 at Atrium Health-Lincolnton.

Samuel Clarence Farmer, 65, of Shoal Road, Lincolnton, passed away on Monday, September 14, 2020 at his residence.

Donald Brinkley Beam, 87, passed away Sunday, September 13, 2020 at Carolina Care Center in Cherryville, North Carolina.

Jerry Van Bell, Sr. 79, passed away Sunday, September 13, 2020, at his home in Cherryville, NC, surrounded by his many extended family members, who loved him dearly.

David Wilhide, age 60, of Forest City, passed away Sunday, September 13, 2020 at Hospice of the Carolina Foothills.

Mafra Silvers Edwards, age 93, of Ellenboro, passed away Friday, September 11, 2020 at Willow Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Katie Lou Jones Pruitt, 97, of Kings Mountain, NC, passed away on September 12, 2020 at White Oak Manor in Kings Mountain, NC.

Jane Delores Smith Hollingsworth, age 65, of Alf Hoover Road, passed away Thursday, September 10, 2020 at Frye Regional medical Center.

Emmett Odell Greene, 79, of Kings Mountain, NC, passed away on September 11, 2020, surrounded by loved ones at the home of his daughter.

Robert "Bill" William Wilson, age 88, passed away on Saturday, September 12, 2020 at his home in Shelby surrounded by his family and his loving four legged friend "Happy."

The life journey of Edwin Randolph Kendrick came to an end on September 12, 2020. It began as the first-born of Hugh Quinn and Louvice Lowery Kendrick of Shelby, NC on November 8, 1920.

James Wayne Blanton, age 73 of Shelby, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, September 7, 2020.

Tammie W. Fowler, 62, died Friday, September 11, 2020, at her daughter's home in Grover.

Billy Ray Arrowood, 79, of Kings Mountain, NC, passed away on September 10, 2020 at Caromont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia, NC.

Donté LaQuette Hopper, 38, of 5005 Westgate Drive Shelby, NC passed away on Friday, September 4, 2020 at Testa Family Hospice House in Kings Mountain, NC.

Frances Brigman Cribbs, age 81 of Shelby, NC, passed away Tuesday, September 8, 2020.

On Monday, Sept. 7, at 9 a.m., Shelby's American Legion Post 82, Post Auxiliary, and Sons of American Legion Squadron 82 observed Patriot Day, remembering the thousands who lost their lives when terrorist-hijacked planes attacked the United States.

These anglers enjoyed a successful day of trout fishing in Tribal waters of the EBCI in Cherokee.

Left to right: Zach Wilkinson, Jeff Owens, Big Dayne Grigg, Clayton Wilkinson and Corky Wilkinson.

Harriet Black Davis, 83, of Saluda, SC, formally of Kings Mountain, passed away on September 8, 2020.