Obituaries and News from Kings Mountain Area Aug 2017
Pauline Washburn Parker 64 of Kings Mountain died Aug 2 2017 at home. Funeral Aug 8 at St Paul Methodist Church Kings Mountain with Donnell Gill officiating. Burial Mountain Rest Cemetery. Gill Funeral Home in charge. Samuel H Gold 79 died Aug 5 2017 at Carolina Care Cherryville. Funeral Aug 8 at New Hope Baptist Church with burial in church cemetery. Cecil M Burton Funeral Home handling arrangements. Pamela D Lynch 4 died Aug 5 2017 at Testa Family Hospice House Kings Mountain. Arrangements incomplete. Mary Goforth Robinson 05 died Aug 6 2017 at Morningside Assisted Living Rock Hill. Service to be announced by M L Ford & Sons Funeral Home Clover. Debra Blanton Mauney 56 died Aug 6 2017 at home Gastonia. Service details to be announced by McLean Funeral Directors. Betty Lou Thomas 73 died Aug 4 2017 at home Cleveland County. Funeral Aug 8 at Clay Barnette Funeral Home Chapel. Burial Cleveland Memorial Park. Clay Barnette Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Rock Hill
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South Carolina
Gastonia
Debra Blanton Mauney
McLean Funeral Directors
Boiling Springs
Betty Lou Thomas
Cleveland County
Alvin and
Katie Turner Cook
Clay- Barnette Funeral Home
Chad Jones
Clay-Barnette Funeral Home
Cleveland Memorial Park
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Clay -Barnette Funeral Home
Local church packs 10,000 meals in one afternoon drive
About 70 volunteers from ages 5 to 90 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Gastonia joined a packed effort to assemble 10,000 meals in a few hours. Lead Pastor Black East praised the mission while participants sang, danced, and shared stories of feeding hungry families, including trips to Kenya.
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Bryant
Gastonia
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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Jane Warren
Holy Trinity Lutheran
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Gaston Gazette
Ivy League schools brace for scrutiny of race in admissions
A Justice Department probe into Harvard's race influenced admissions signals potential new challenges for Ivy League colleges. Harvard Yale and Princeton report growing minority representation in incoming classes through 2010 to 2015, with 43 percent minority entrants by 2015. Princeton and Brown defend holistic race conscious policies as essential to campus diversity and educational goals amid ongoing political debate.
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Local basketball star builds finance career in Gastonia
Eric Smith, MSU guard and Detroit Pistons draftee, charted a path from college basketball to investment banking. After early moves with Vitale and Johnson, he settled in Gastonia in 2004, running a private consulting firm that funds corporate and public finance and mentors local players while stressing city growth and opportunity.
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Magic” Johnson
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