Mary Louise Earnhardt

Mrs. Mary Louise Earnhardt, 92, of Concord Lake Road, Kannapolis, died Friday, September 30, 2005, at NorthEast Medical Center, following six years of declining health and a serious illness of 15 months. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Monday, October 3, 2005, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Jim Bowen and the Rev. Wes Judy will officiate. Interment will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Concord. The family will receive friends from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Monday at Lady's Funeral Home. Born June 13, 1913, in Cabarrus County, she was a daughter of the late Lee Weddington Earnhardt, Sr. and Mary Marks Barnhardt Earnhardt and was a 1930 graduate of Winecoff High School. She was a homemaker and formerly worked in the sheet department at Cannon Mills Plant No. 1 in the late 1930's. She was the oldest confirmed member of Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church and was a member of Sunday School Class No. 4 and the Lillie Scott Sunday School Class. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Archie Burleyson Earnhardt, who died November 6, 1991; and a brother, Aubrey Wilson Earnhardt. Survivors include a daughter, Mary Louise Earnhardt Eagle and husband, Harold McKenzie "Mackie" Eagle, Jr. of Greensboro; a brother, Lee Weddington "L. W." Earnhardt, Jr. of Kannapolis and Wrightsville Beach; four grandchildren, Mark McKenzie Eagle of Monroe, Meredith Ann Eagle Brown of Charlotte, Michael Carrigan Eagle of Greensboro and Marshal Kennedy Eagle of Smyrna, Ga.; and four great-grandchildren. Memorials may be sent ot Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church Building Fund, 301 Mt. Olivet Road, Concord, NC 28025.