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Thursday, Octofor 2^^, 1970
Sudden Attack
Fatal On Friday
To Horace Easom
Horace Easom of 510 W. Marion
Street, Shelby, prominent Baptist,
civic leader and slncx* 1961 oxecu-
tiive director of the Cleveland
County United Fund, Inc., died
suddenly from an api)arent heart
attack around 3:45 p.m. Friday in
uptown Shelby.
'Native of Smithfieid in Johns
ton county, he came to Shelby in
August, 1928 as director ot re
ligious education and minister of
music at Shelby’s First Baptist
Church, serving in that capacity
until June 1, 1947 with exception
of two years, 1934-36.
Between 1947 and 1952 Easom
led the Wake Forest Enlargement
Campaign to raise $2 million
through the state’s Baptist church.
«s and afterwards was the state’s
first Brotherhood secretary, and
secretary of the Baptist Founda
tion.
In 1941, Gardner-Webb College
turned to him to head a cam
paign to raise $100,000 as the
school, lihen Boiling Springs Jun
ior College, sought accreditation.
He alsoco-chalrmaned in 1943 the
Memorial Fund Enlargement
Campaign which raised ^50,(X)0
fior Gardner-Webb and again in
1947 he co-chairmaned a special
endowment campaign for the col
lege when it was accepted by the
Baptist State Convention.
Easom retired in 1958 but
promptly became director of pub
lic relations for Union Trust Com
pany in Shelby. He became exe
cutive director of the Cleveland
County United Fund, Inc. on July
1, 1961, a post he held at the
time of his death.
He has served as a member of
the Wake Forest College Board of
Trustees, Gardner-Webb Colego
Board of Trustees and the G-W
Advisory Committee. He has di
rected music for the Baptist State |
Convention, State Evangelistic j
Conference and for several Baip- ■
list Assemblies. He had also ser\’-
ed as Moderator for the Kings
Mountain Baptist Association and
was one of the “Christian Lay
men’s Witnessing Organization.
Member of the Shelby Kiwanis
Club, he served one year as Lieu
tenant Governor of Division One
for Carolina Kiwanis; was named
Shelby’s “-Man of the Year” in
1961; and served as chaplain for
the American Legion Post No. 82.
Educated at Buies Creek Acade
my (now Cairipbell College),
Wake Forest College and New
Yoric School of Music and Arts,
he served in World War I and
afterwards became director of ed
ucation and music at Southside
Church in Wilmington in 1921.
Other churches he served as edu
cation and music director have
been First Baptist Church of Ashe
ville- First Baptist Chunch of Dal-^^
las, Texas; Buffalo .Baptist and* ^
B(*fhoi Baptist, along with several
otlier Cleveland County churclu^s.
He is survived by hia widow,
the former Margaret Stevens of
Clinton. iN. C., whom he married
in 1926; one daughter, Mrs. Rob-
ert Litton; three grandchildren,
Lu Litton, Robert Litton, Jr. and
Margiuet Stevens Litton; and two
sistei-s, Mi.s. Howard Gray and
Mrs. J. E. Medlin, both of Smith-
field.
Funeral services were comluct-
ed Sunday at 3 p.m, from First
Baptist Church with Rev. Gen
Watterson and Rev. Roland Leatn
oPfidating. Interment w'as in Sun.
.set cemetery.
Wm. C. Absher
Funeral Rites
Held On Sunday
Funeral services for William
Claude Absiier, 48, of Route 3,
Kings Mountain, were eonduetw!
Sunday at 3 p.m. from Con(x>rd
United Methodist Chunch of which
he wiis a member. The Rev. H.
G. Clayton and Rev. H. O. IHlls.s
officiated with interment follow^
ing in the church cemetery.
A farmer, Absheir died at hL
home Thursday night following
two-months illness.
Surv'ivors include his parents.
Charlie and lMts. C. Ab^er ol
Route 3; thrt»e brothers, Clayton
Absiier of Rt. 2, Cherryviile, Evan
3. Absiier of Rt. 2, Bessemer City,
and R. Lee Absher of Route 3,
I Kings Mountain; one sister, Mrs.
1 Harley Wilson of Rt. 3, Kings
' Mountain.
With UN ICBF’s help, I lie
death rate from malaria among
childr’Cn lias been lowered from
3.5 million in the fifties to less
than one million per year.
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