It is with great sadness but also expectant joy in the Lord's promise of eternal life that we announce the passing of our beautiful wife and loving mother, Cynthia Annette Poe.
Phyllis Blanton Norman, affectionately known to those who loved her as "Punkin," of Rutherford County, North Carolina passed away on August 12, 2026, at the age of 57.
SHELBY- Bea Sowers, born on March 12, 1952, in Cleveland County, left this world peacefully on July 30, 2026, with her beloved husband by her side. She was 74 years old.
SHELBY- Stephen Davis Linnens, fondly known as Steve, of Shelby, NC, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on August 8, 2026, at the age of 69.
Robert Lee Murray, born on May 13, 1944, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, passed away on July 31, 2026, at Atrium Health Hospital in Shelby, North Carolina.
Gary Walter Ritchie, 78, of Shelby, North Carolina, passed away surrounded by the love of his family. He was born in Valdese, North Carolina, on August 9, 1947.
Doris Hoyle Lowery, 88, of Shelby N.C., passed away peacefully on August 7, 2026. A native of Cleveland County, she was born on November 3, 1937, to the late Jack David and Flavie Brittain Hoyle of Lawndale, N.C.
I suppose the task at hand, telling strangers and acquaintances, people who aren't close enough to already know the news, that Germaine Lockman passed at 88, surprisingly to her daughter and granddaughter, who thought she would pass at 95, is easiest.
