Rita Cloe Sheets

Mrs. Rita Cloe Sheets, 96, passed away Saturday, April 6, 2019, at Tucker Hospice House in Kannapolis.

A funeral service is scheduled for 11:00 am Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Elder Charles Broadway will officiate. Interment will be at 3:00 pm Tuesday at Peak Creek Church of the Brethren Cemetery in Laurel Springs.

The family will receive friends from 10 to 10:45 am at Lady's Funeral Home prior to the service.

Mrs. Sheets was born April 10, 1922 in Wilkes County. She was a daughter of the late Clyde F. Sheets and Etta Dancy Sheets. She was a member of Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist Church in Statesville. She retired as a retail sales clerk.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, H.W. Sheets, Sr.; three brothers, Rex Sheets, Ralph Sheets and Wade Sheets; two sisters, Dell Sheets and Raye Long; three grandsons, Darren Brigman, Jeffrey Brigman and Brad Walters; and a son-in-law, Erskine Ratchford.

Mrs. Sheets is survived by her daughters, Mary Etta Brigman and husband Jerry of Mooresville and Karen Ratchford of Landrum, SC; three sons, H.W. Sheets, Jr. and wife Connie, Steve Sheets and wife Pam, Gary Sheets and wife Susan, all of Mooresville; sister, Gaye Powell of Taylorsville; 11 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.