Elsie Pauline Whitman

Mrs. Elsie Pauline Upright Whitman, 91, passed away Wednesday, October 31, 2012, at CMC-NorthEast in Concord.

A funeral service will be held at 2:30 pm Friday, November 2, 2012, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Jeff Simpson will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park in Kannapolis.

The family will receive friends from 12 to 2:00 pm Friday at Lady's Funeral Home.

Mrs. Whitman was born on Feburary 4, 1921 in Kannapolis. She was a daughter of the late Charles C. Upright and Fannie Mae Overcash Upright. She retired from the spinning room of Cannon Mills where she worked as a spinner. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Georgia Seaford.

Mrs. Whitman is survived by two daughters, Glenda Jordan and husband Ned of China Grove and Barbara Ann Britt of Kannapolis; two sons, David Leroy Hendrix and wife Judy and Charles Conrad Hendrix and wife Hazel, all of China Grove; four sisters, Margie Church, Rosa Lee Upright and Doris Hodge, all of Kannapolis and Connie Burris of Mt. Pleasant; two brothers, Robert Upright and Charles Upright, Jr., both of Kannapolis; 14 grandchildren; 28 great grandchildren and 21 great-great grandchildren.