Mary Lou Schenck's Obituary
Mrs. Mary Lou Harrington Schenck, 83, went to join her heavenly family on Monday, September 9, 2013, from Big Elm Nursing Center.
A funeral service is scheduled for 2:30 pm Thursday, September 12, 2013, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Joey Spry and Rev. Mike Roper will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park in Kannapolis.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9:00 pm Wednesday at Lady's Funeral Home.
Mrs. Schenck was born December 19, 1929 in Union County. She was a daughter of the late Frank Harrington and Dorothy Winchester Harrington. She retired from the cutting room of Cannon Mills Plant One where she was a towel inspector. She was a member of Fisher Street Baptist Church.
Mary was a wonderful mother and grandmother and her grandchildren loved her dearly.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Robert Schenck, Jr. in 1992; and two sisters, Marie Hildreth and Joyce Harrington.
Mrs. Schenck is survived by two daughters, Sharon Morton and husband James of the home and daughter, Kim Weaver and husband Ed of Concord; son, Charles “Chuck” Schenck, III of Denver, NC; three brothers, Bill Harrington and Dwight Harrington, both of Kannapolis and Jerry Harrington of Eden; seven grandchildren, Scott Law and wife Laura, Christy Nichols and husband Darrell, Sean Weaver and wife Bobbi, Wendy Gobble, Starla Schenck, Chip Schenck and wife Angie and Matthew Schenck; and 12 great grandchildren, Dion and Gracie Law, Brandon and Courtney Gobble, Aiden and Brycen Schenck, Maegan Sylvia and Brady Santerre, Lexy and Andrew Weaver and Kayla and Jacob Nichols.
Memorials may be sent to Fisher Street Baptist Church, 810 Fisher Street, Concord, NC 28027.
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