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Surnames: Ward, Causby, Gardner, Gantt, Bolton
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The Star
Shelby, NC
May 16, 2006
Homer Ward
Died May 14, 2006
Shelby — Mr. Homer Douglas Ward, 85, of 605 Whisnant St., died Sunday, May 14, 2006, at
Regency at St. Francis Hospital, Greenville, S.C.
FUNERAL: Thursday at 7 p.m. at Cecil M. Burton Funeral Home Chapel
Burial: Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Sunset Memorial Park, Spindale with Military honors
VISITATION: The family will receive friends Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Cecil M.
Burton Funeral Home and other times at the home of Roger and Faith Gantt, 619 E. Marion
St., Shelby.
PERSONAL HISTORY: A native of McDowell County, Mr. Ward served in the Navy during World
War II at Pearl Harbor aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma. He was a member of Crestview Baptist
Church and gave out religious tracts for over 49 years at Cleveland County Fair. He taught
Sunday School for many years at Charles Road Fire Station. He retired from J.P. Stevens
Company.
PreCEDED IN DEATH BY: His parents, James Melger and Cora Augusta Causby Ward; his wife,
Edith Huggins Gardner Ward; and brothers, Paul Ward, Donald Ward and Roger Ward
SURVIVORS: Stepsons, Charles Gardner and wife, Cindy, of Falcon, Colo. and David Gardner
and wife, Diane, of Fort Worth, Texas; a daughter, Faith Ward Gantt and husband, Roger, of
Shelby; brothers, James “Piggy” Ward of Shelby and Hicks Ward and wife, Dot, of Spindale;
sisters, Pauline Ward of Lexington and Hazel Harris and husband, FTB, of Tryon;
grandchildren, Sarah Bolton and husband, David, of Lawndale and Rachel, David, and Amy
Gantt of Shelby; and step-grandchildren, Joann Gardner of N.H. and Robbin Gardner of
Germany
OFFICIATING CLERGY: The Rev. Stan Webb
MEMORIALS: Moscow Missions at Crestview Baptist Church, 1090 Old Boiling Springs Road,
Shelby, NC 28152
FUNERAL HOME: Cecil M. Burton Funeral Home
ONLINE CONDOLENCES:
www.cecilmburtonfuneralhome.com