James Harold Adcock

The Rev. James Harold Adcock, 82, of 211 Bell Street, Kannapolis, died Friday, May 15, 2009, at the Bob and Carolyn Tucker Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, May 18, 2009, at First Wesleyan Church. Dr. Forbis Kivett and the Revs. Charles Patton, Henry Williams, Jerry Lumston and Wayne Preusz will officiate. Interment with military honors will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the National Cemetery in Salisbury. The body will be placed in the church one hour prior to the service. Ministers of the West District of the North Carolina Wesleyan Church will served as honorary pallbearers. The Pathfinders Class at First Wesleyan Church will be seated in an honorary group. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times, they will be at the home. Born July 9, 1926 in Kannapolis, he was the son of the late Henry E. Adcock and Irene Cress Adcock. Rev. Adcock was a minister in the Wesleyan Church and served eight churches throughout his 50 years of ministry. He was a US Navy veteran of World War II. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Nancy Adcock Hamrick, who died January 15, 2002. Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Cleo Sheets Adcock; two sisters, Thelma McCool of Chesney, SC and Mildred Hinson of Salisbury; two brothers, Owen Adcock and Thomas Adcock, both of Kannapolis; son-in-law, John Hamrick of Fayetteville, GA; granddaughter, Barbara Hamrick Abernathy and husband, David, of Newnan, GA; and two great-grandchildren, Stephen and Stephanie Scroggins. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to First Wesleyan Church, 301 Bethpage Road, Kannapolis, NC 28081 or the American Diabetes Association, PO Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312.