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The Star
Shelby, NC
April 1, 2005
Mary Causby
SHELBY - Mrs. Mary Lucinda Hamrick Causby, 900 W. Warren St., went to be with her Lord and
Savior on Thursday, March 31, 2005, at Hospice at Wendover.
Mrs. Causby was born the elder daughter of Reuben Hubbard and Frances Brydges Hamrick on
June 29, 1927. She was a lifelong resident of Shelby and a 1944 graduate of Shelby High
School. She completed her B.S. in Biology at Limestone College in 1948, and in 1977, she
received an A.A. in Nursing from Gardner-Webb College. Following two terms on the
Limestone Alumni Board of Directors, she served as a member of the Board of Trustees and
was elected a life trustee of the college. In December of 2004, Limestone College awarded
her an honorary doctorate degree of public service.
Mrs. Causby was a Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church for 55 years. She also
served as a deacon, as the church historian and as president of the Women's Missionary
Union. She was the first woman moderator of the Kings Mountain Baptist Association and had
served as national president of the Baptist Nursing Fellowship. She had been a short-term
volunteer medical and evangelical missionary in the U.S. and overseas having traveled to
more than 70 countries. She had worked as a volunteer nurse for Hospice and for the
American Red Cross bloodmobile and had served on the boards of both the Cleveland County
Mental Health Association and Hospice. She was elected Woman of the Year in Shelby in
1968, and in 1993 and 1999, she received the Governor's Volunteer Award. She was
currently serving as chairperson of the Mainland Advisory Council of the Hawaii Baptist
Academy, after having served with her husband on the council for 30 years.
Mrs. Causby was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her loving husband of
56 years, Harold Causby; two sons, David and wife, Becca, and Robert, all of Shelby; and
an exchange student from Brazil she thought of and treated as a son, Harold Pinto and
wife, Regina, of Franklin, Tenn. She is also survived by a host of adoring grandchildren,
Lucinda Causby MacArthur and husband, Noel, of Shelby, Katherine Causby Carter and
husband, Jeffrey, of Gastonia, Stephen Causby of Atlanta, Keeley Causby of Spartanburg,
S.C., Forrest Causby and wife, Corinne, of Raleigh, Gordon Causby of Atlanta, and Ana
Pinto Monnaco and husband, Carlos, and Leticia Pinto, all of Orlando, Fla.; and a
great-granddaughter, Allie Catherine MacArthur of Shelby. Her sister, Ruth Hamrick
Sherman, also survives, as well as loving nieces and nephews, Bill Sherman and wife,
Tammy, and daughters, Amanda of Greensboro and Emily of Shelby, Sandy Sherman Beason and
husband, Jimmy, and children, Jim, Je!
nnifer and Josh of Boiling Springs, and Steve Sherman and wife, Gloria, and sons, Daniel
and Kevin of Shelby.
The family requests no flowers but that memorials be sent to Hawaii Baptist Academy,
Christian Service Organization at Gardner-Webb University, First Baptist Church Shelby, or
Limestone College. The family may be contacted for details.
A memorial service of celebration will be held in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church
Shelby on Saturday, April 2, at 3 p.m. The family will receive friends at the church
following the service.