Andrew Durant Hancock

Mr. Andrew Durant Hancock, 85 of 804 Bostian Avenue, died Sunday, June 4, 2006, at NorthEast Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Jim Griggs at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, 2006, in Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Carolina Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday prior to the service. Mr. Hancock was born April 29, 1921, in Mt. Croghan, S.C., a son of the late Robert Lester Hancock and Daisy Jane Rollins Hancock. He was a member of Franklin Heights Baptist Church and retired from Cannon Mills where he was a fixer in the sheet department. He was an avid gardener with strong, loving hands, capable of pursuing his passion of growing things from apples and oranges to pecan trees and tomatoes. He was always ready to give comfort, love and support to anyone needing an additional prayer. His quick smile and laugh was always ready to share with anyone and his wit was without end. He joked his way through the days of illness, even making his doctors and nurses laugh. Always a wonderful husband, daddy, paw- paw, brother and friend, he will be greatly missed. Survivors include his wife, Myrtle Gilmore Hancock; a son Harry Hancock and wife, Reta, of Anderson, SC; three daughters, Janice Hancock and husband Gary, of Kannapolis, Patty Eller and husband, Tim of Mooresville and Gail Cole and husband Lex of Columbia, SC; two brothers, Elbert Hancock of Pageland SC and Fred Hancock of Lancaster, SC; five sisters, Grace Hancock, Kathleen Baker and Dorothy Gulledge, all of Kannapolis, Billie Jean Knight of Pageland, SC and Myrtle Jordan of Mt. Croghan, SC; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.