Ruth Lunsford Hampton's Obituary
Mrs. Ruth Lunsford Hampton, 74, a resident of Big Elm Nursing Center and formerly of 1201 Rainbow Drive, Kannapolis, died Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at NorthEast Medical Center in Concord.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 29, 2003, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Kannapolis Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times they will be at the home of her daughters, Debra Rufty and Christine Litaker, 1201 Rainbow Drive, Kannapolis.
Born December 7, 1928, in Cabarrus County, she was a daughter of the late William Henry "Ted" Lunsford and the late Holly Coxey Lunsford. She retired many years ago from Tuscarora Yarns in Mt. Pleasant. She formerly worked in the Number Seven Spinning Room of Cannon Mills, Plant One in Kannapolis. She was of the Baptist faith and enjoyed working with crafts and crocheting.
Survivors include two daughters, Debra Rufty and Christine Litaker, of Kannapolis; two sons, Larry Hampton and his wife, Wadine, of China Grove and Perry Hampton and his wife, Marlene, of Rockwell; two sisters, Helen Brooks Gillespie of Powhatan, VA and Opal McCool of Williamsburg, VA; eight grandchildren, Erin Hampton, Preston Hampton, Kelly Poteat, Kerry Gunner, Cody Hampton, Joel Hinson, Hollie Gobble and Michael Litaker; and three great-grandchildren, Jonathan, Joshua and Jordan Poteat.
Memorials may be sent to The Gideons International, P.O. Box 52, Kannapolis, NC 28082.
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