Betty Strickland Childers

Mrs. Betty Strickland Childers, 79, formerly of Corriher Street, passed away Saturday, January 1, 2011. Funeral services for Mrs. Childers will be conducted in Lady's Funeral Home Chapel at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 4, 2011. The Rev. Robert D. Howard will officiate. Burial will follow in Kannapolis Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Lady's Funeral Home from 2 until 4:00 p.m. Tuesday prior to the funeral service. Mrs. Childers was born in Rowan County on January 7, 1931, a daughter of the late Nathlee Curtis Strickland and Lucille Hurlocker Strickland. She formerly operated Strickland's Florist for many years and was a member of Lakewood Baptist Church. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Olin P. Childers, Sr. on July 14, 2009 and a sister Billie Strickland Brown. Survivors include her children, Michael Childers and Greg Childers of Kannapolis, Paula C. Jordan and husband Scott of Salisbury, Paul Childers and wife Charleene of Rockwell and Vicki C. Stokes and husband Keith of China Grove; eleven grandchildren, Michelle Hadad, Whittney Jordan Graham, Ashley Hileman, Brittney Morgan, Aaron Childers, Anna Childers, Jonathan Childers, Jason Stanley, Josh Stanley, Tyler Stokes and Samantha Stokes; one brother, Rev. Nathlee Curtis "Buddy" Strickland, Jr.