Helen Gibson Wyrick

Mrs. Helen Gibson Wyrick, 80, a resident of Best of Care Assisted Living. and formerly of 2528 Glenwood Street, Kannapolis, died Saturday, October 25, 2008. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Wade Easom will officiate. Burial will follow at Carolina Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times, they will be at the residence, 2528 Glenwood Street, Kannapolis. Mrs. Wyrick was born in Cabarrus County on February 14, 1928, a daughter of the late Henry George Gibson and Eva Leona Woodward Gibson Jackson. In 1948, at the age of 20, she was the first adult to contract Polio in Cabarrus County. She was very active with the Cabarrus County Infantile Paralysis Association, and was pictured on their poster in 1952. In her early years, she worked as an operator with the Concord Telephone Company, and then was a wife, homemaker and mother. She was a member of the Lane Street Church of God. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Paul and Jack Gibson. Survivors include her husband, Hoyt William Wyrick, Sr.; a daughter, Sandra W. McCurdy and husband Durrell McCurdy, of Mooresville; a son, Hoyt William Wyrick, Jr. and wife Patty Wyrick, of Kannapolis; two grandchildren Jason Wyrick of Kannapolis, and Shelia McCarty and husband Bryan McCarty; two great-grandchildren, Courtney and Tyler McCarty of Mooresville; and a sister, Ann Steele of Kannapolis.