Emma Sexton Cheek's Obituary
Mrs. Emma Sexton Cheek, age 84, of Universal Health Care, Concord, died Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cheek will be conducted in Lady's Funeral Home Chapel at 11:00 am Saturday. The Rev. Marler Starnes will officiate. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday from 9:00 am until 10:45 am prior to the service. Burial will follow in West Lawn Memorial Park, China Grove, NC.
Born in Madison County, Georgia, on January 14, 1926 Emma was a daughter of the late Dupree Sexton and Bertie Martin Sexton. She retired from Cannon Mills, plant one, number seven spinning room after 46 years employment.
Survivors include her husband, Gilbert Cheek, a son Jimmy Leonard and his wife Terry of Kannapolis, and two sisters, Blondine Puckett of California and Guynell, of China Grove, a brother, Jack Sexton of Kannapolis, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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