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- BAKERSVILLE - Catherine Nannie Boone, 97, of the Lily Branch community, died Saturday, May 24, 2003 in Spruce Pine Community Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Jim and Beatrice Fortner Conley, and wife of the late Charlie Boone. She and Charlie were married September 17, 1938. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Jean Boone. She was a member of Lily Branch Baptist Church. Survivors include one son, Jim Boone of Bakersville; one daughter, Juanita Hamilton West of Chevy Chase, MD; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 8 p.m. Monday in the Grindstaff Memorial Chapel of Webb Funeral Home in Spruce Pine. Rev. Steve Williams
officiated. Graveside services were at 11 a.m. Monday in Lily Branch Baptist Church Cemetery. The family received friends from 6 p.m. until the service hour Monday at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Mitchell County, 284 Hospital Drive, Spruce Pine,
NC 28777.
Catherine was previously married to Edgar Sherod Hamilton They were married on February 21, 1930 in Bakersville, N. C. Edgar was a bookkeeper. His father was William C. Hamilton from Palestine, Texas where Edgar was born. His mother's name was Thersa Henn and she was born in Georgia. Edgar died in Bakersville on April 24, 1937 and buried at Lilly Branch Cemetery on April 26, 1937
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1906 - 2003 (97 years)
