Banks Manulee Beaver

Mr. Banks Manulee Beaver, 87, of 1008 Sloop Avenue, Kannapolis, died Thursday, March 25, 2004, at Big Elm Nursing Center. Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 27, 2004, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Randy McWaters, the Rev. Gene Edwards and Dr. Greg Pierce will officiate. Interment will follow at West Lawn Memorial Park in China Grove. The family will receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Saturday at Lady's Funeral Home. Born June 21, 1916 in Rowan County, he was a son of the late Sloan P. Beaver and Mamie Rodgers Beaver. He retired several years ago from Cannon Mills. Mr. Beaver was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He was a member and former Sunday School teacher at Lane Street Baptist Church. His love for the Word of God was known to all who knew him. Survivors include his wife, Ollie Lee Lambert Beaver; two daughters, Barbara Watts and her husband, Glenn, and Priscilla McWaters and her husband, Randy, all of Kannapolis; two sisters, Gladys Tate of China Grove and Marie Wagner of Salisbury; one brother, Elmer "Bill" Beaver of Granite Quarry; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Memorials may be sent to American Cancer Society, PO Box 928, Concord, NC 28025.