Odessa Query Mullis' Obituary
Mrs. Odessa Query Mullis, 82, of Woodlawn Street, Kannapolis, died Friday, October 3, 2008 at the Brian Center.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, October 6, 2008, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Terry Deitz will officiate. Burial will follow at Carolina Memorial Park. The family will receive friends Sunday, October 5, 2008, from 6 until 8 p.m. at Lady's Funeral Home.
Mrs. Mullis was born in Kannapolis on April 7, 1926, a daughter of the late Mather M. Query and Lula McDaniel Query. She retired from the weave room of Fieldcrest Cannon and was a member of Temple Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Guy Howard Mullis, Sr., who died on July 28, 2001.
Survivors include a son, Guy Howard Mullis, Jr. and wife, Andrea of Salisbury; four daughters, Lavonda Mullis Fink of China Grove, MarshAnn Mullis Connelly and husband Ron of Morganton, Tammy Mullis Wayne and husband Eric of China Grove, and Melanie Parris and husband Todd of Kannapolis; three sisters, Elizabeth Lambert of Kannapolis, Geneva Reed of Terrell, and Louise Leazer of Elon College; eight, grandchildren, Lisa Moose and husband Chad, Brent Thomasee, Josh Wayne, Melissa Drye and husband Shawn, Chris Ferguson and wife Lundie, Cari Mullis, Cliff Connelly and Jeremy Mullis; five great-grandchildren, Dalton Moose, Logan Thomasee, Corbin Moose, Madison Ferguson and Morgan Ferguson.
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