Rev. Billy Edwin Flinchum's Obituary
Rev. Billy Edwin Flinchum, 70, of 2167 Montford Drive, Concord, died Wednesday, May 19, 2002, at his residence.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM Saturday, May 22, 2002, at the First Wesleyan Church in Kannapolis. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park. Dr. Forbis Kivett and the Rev. Henry Williams will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:00 PM Friday at Lady's Funeral Home.
Born February 11, 1932, in Rockingham County, NC, he was a son of the late James Morehead Flinchum and the late Eunice Hopkins Flinchum. Rev. Flinchum was a minister in the Wesleyan Church and was a member of the First Wesleyan Church in Kannapolis. He graduated from Summerfield High School in 1950 and attended Southern Wesleyan University before graduating from Southern Pilgrim College in Kernersville with a Th. B in Religion. In 1960 he received an A.B. in Social Studies from Guilford College. Bill was in the U.S. Army from 1956-58 and was stationed in Oklahoma. In his early years as a minister, he also taught junior high school and acted as a counselor /coordinator in the Guilford County School System. He began his ministry in the NC West District of the Wesleyan Church in 1958, acting as a beloved pastor of nine congregations over the next thirty-seven years. After retiring in 1996 from the pastorate, he continued ministry as a teacher of the Wesleyan Class at First Wesleyan Church in Kannapolis and shared his interest in biblical prophecy in classes on the book of Revelation. Special interest included Carolina basketball, coin collecting, assembling puzzles, gardening and reading books of all varieties, particularly mysteries.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Jathina McPeak Flinchum, who died in 1967; and three brothers, Walter Flinchum, Frank Flinchum and Sidney Flinchum.
Survivors include his wife, Mildred Hartsell Flinchum; a daughter, Tamara Flinchum of Central, SC; a son, Phillip Flinchum and his wife, Marsha, of Kernersville; two brothers, Eddie Flinchum of Stokesdale, John Flinchum of Kernersville; and two grandchildren, Christian Flinchum and Morgan Flinchum, both of Kernersville.
Memorials may be sent to First Wesleyan Church, 301 Bethpage Road, Kannapolis, NC 28081.
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