Leon Vibert Bost

Leon Vibert Bost, 89, of 1312 Dogwood Avenue, Kannapolis, died Monday, March 20, 2006, at NorthEast Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2006, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Dave Cash will officiate. Members of the Cabarrus County Chapter of Christian Businessmen will serve as honorary pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Thursday at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times they will be at the residence. Born November 30, 1916, in Richmond, Virginia, he was the son of the late Junius Vibert Bost and Hattie Mae Fesperman Bost. He was retired from Hooper-Holmes Insurance of Basking Ridge, NJ. He was an active member of Midway United Methodist Church where he taught the Young Adult's Sunday School class, served as a youth leader and was active in the United Methodist Men and the JOY Club. He was employed for 20 years as the director of the health club at Cannon Memorial YMCA and was a member of the Y's Triangle Club. Leon also enjoyed his affiliation with the Christian Businessmen's Committee of Cabarrus County. He was a former member of Cannon Memorial Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his wife, Lula Byars Bost; two sons, Danny Hart Bost and wife, Linda, of China Grove, and Richard Leon Bost and wife, Freda, of Mt. Pleasant; three grandchildren, Brooke Beam and husband, Matthew, Heather Horne and husband, John, and Dustin Bost and wife, Brandy; four great-grandchildren, Carson and Chloe Beam and Tyler and Paige Bost; and special little friends, Maxwell and Parker Steele. Memorials may be sent to Midway United Methodist Church, We Care Fund, 108 Bethpage Road, Kannapolis, NC 28081.