Effie Rodgers Starnes

Mrs. Effie Rodgers Starnes, 95, passed away Tuesday, November 24, 2009, at Big Elm Nursing Center in Kannapolis. A funeral service is scheduled for 11:00 am Friday, November 27, 2009, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Forest Jones will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park in Kannapolis. The family will receive friends from 10:00 to 10:45 am Friday at Lady's Funeral Home. Mrs. Starnes was born July 4, 1914 in Iredell County. She was a daughter of the late Thomas Triplet Rodgers and Charlotte Davis Rodgers. She retired from the #1 weave room of Plant 1 of Cannon Mills in 1974. She was a member of Concord First Assembly. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Luther David Starnes in 1965; a daughter, Lorene Spry; seven brothers and one sister. Mrs. Starnes is survived a daughter, Mae S. Allman and husband James of Landis; two sons, George Starnes and wife Becky of Landis and Triplet Starnes and wife Mitzi of New London; a brother, Clyde Thomas Rodgers of Mooresville; 12 grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Remembrances may be sent to the family at www.ladysfuneralhome.com.