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Surnames: Hicks, Causby, Harbison, Ingle, Warlick
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News-Herald
Morganton, NC
October 25, 2001
Bertha H. Causby
MORGANTON - Bertha Hicks Causby, 91, died Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001, at Britthaven of
Morganton following a lengthy illness.
Born Aug. 7, 1910, in Burke County, she was a daughter of the late James Edney Hicks and
Minnie Deal Hicks. She was a retired employee of Drexel-Heritage Furnishings and was a
member of Missionary Ride Baptist Church and a former member of Asheville Street Baptist
Church. She was a loving mother, grandmother and faithful church member. Cooking and being
with family and friends were the joys in her life.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Nadine Harbison; a
sister, Essie Ingle; and brothers, Garland and Wilson Hicks.
Surviving are sons and their wives, Royce and Maria Causby of Virginia
Beach, Va., Charles and Lynn Causby and Jim and Janis Causby, all of
Morganton; a daughter and her husband, Patricia and Jerry Warlick of
Morganton; a brother, James Hicks of Apple Valley, Calif.; 10 grandchildren and 15
great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be held 11 a.m. Friday at Missionary Ridge Baptist Church with the Rev.
Donald Lovelace officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 7 until 8:30 p.m. today at Sossoman
Funeral Home where the body will remain until placed in the church 30
minutes before the funeral hour. At other times, the family will be at the
home of Patricia and Jerry Warlick, 2770 Clark Loop, Morganton.
Memorial gifts may be made to Missionary Ridge Baptist Church, 5612 John Watts Road,
Morganton, N.C. 28655.