Wanda Joyce Hayes Long

Mrs. Wanda Joyce Hayes Long, 71, passed away Monday, February 18, 2019, at Glenn A. Kiser Hospice House in Salisbury.

A funeral service is scheduled for 2:00 pm Thursday, February 21, 2019, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Walt Lyman will officiate. Interment will follow at West Lawn Memorial Park in China Grove.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 1:45 pm Thursday at Lady's Funeral Home.

Mrs. Long was born August 30, 1947 in Cherokee County. She was a daughter of the late James Arthur Hayes and Mary Owenby Hayes.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, George Lee Long; one brother, Ronald Hayes; and sister, Virginia Lee Baine.

Mrs. Long is survived by two daughters, Jamie Runion Karriker and husband Phillip and Malinda Long Richards and husband Laddie; five grandchildren, Patrick Karriker, Bethany Karriker, Brittany Abernathy, Hannah Abernathy and Olivia Pender; and one brother, Bobby Joe Hayes of Rabun Gap, GA.

Memorials may be made to Glenn A. Kiser Hospice House, 1229 Statesville Boulevard, Salisbury, NC 28144.