Mitchell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Vance, Cornell McGee July 7, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak Jkodak@charter.net July 24, 2007, 3:19 pm Mitchell News-Journal 7/18/2007 CORNELL MCGEE VANCE SPRUCE PINE - Cornell McGee Vance, 77, died Saturday, July 7, 2007 at her home. She was the daughter of the late Baxter Cornelius and Eula McKinney McGee. She was also preceded in death by three sisters, Lillian Pittman, Ruby Buchanan and Mary Lee Hall; and two brothers, Sam and Garland McGee. She was a former employee of American Thread Company and a member of Grassy Creek Baptist Church. Survivors incude her husband, Willard Gordon "Dick" Vance of the home; three daughters, Sondra Phillips of Boone, Diane Greene of Pensacola, Fla., and Beverly Burleson of Conover; a sister, Betty Wiseman of Spruce Pine; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday at Grassy Creek Baptist Church. Revs. Matthew Mills, Larry Greene and Ken Hollifield officiated. Burial followed in Grassy Creek Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to Grassy Creek Baptist Church, Music Department, c/o John Hall; or to Hospice of Mitchell County, P.O. Box 38, Spruce Pine, NC 28777. Henline-Hughes Funeral Home in Bakersville assisted the family. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/mitchell/obits/v/vance758gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb